why do my parents hate my piercing
@kottonmouth420 (11)
United States
January 18, 2009 6:05pm CST
A couple years ago I asked my parents to get my tonugue pierced for my birthday and they said sure and i got all excited for it and what not. well when my birthday came around they said they didnt have the money for it right now so i let it go and excepted whatever they had previously boughten me. Months went on i kept on about it but after a while i just stopped and figured what the hell i guess they arent gonna. well about four months ago me and my brother decided to pierce our lips at the same time you know as kind of a bonding thing. we asked our dad he said we could. so we did it but appaerntly when we were granted permission to modify our own god given lips he didnt take us serious. because when he showed up from work the next day he flipped out on our swollen pierced lips. but since he had agreed there wasnt much he coould do. i had planned on going to live with my mom and she really hates it so much so she has threatened to rip it from my face with plyers empty threat im sure but still. now can someone please expllain to me why haveing your lip pierced is such a bg deal.
2 responses
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
19 Jan 09
Thank god I do not have children, such kind of mad things like piercing tongue and lips even I find awful, these are sensitive areas and piercing can produce a septic with horrible repurcussions later on,I feel your mom is a sensible person as no mom would like that her child suffers later for the obstinate thing he or she does to herself.
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
19 Jan 09
I think it's just different tastes in fashion. What is in and fashionable now (such as piercings and body mods) wasn't in and fashionable for your parents' generation. They might even associate body piercings with a certain stereotype image. They may think "only certain people" get body piercings. Even if they don't think that, they probably just don't like the look because piercings weren't as mainstream when they were your age. They may never get it, and may always hate the look, but you could try to explain that lip piercings are very fashionable now. Point out other people who have lip rings. They may warm up to the look if you point out that it's very mainstream these days.
