Girl gets plastic surgery to ward off bullies

Yes if it were extreme....you would have to in order to protect them. That is the number one job of a parent behing loving them...it to protect them from both physical and emotional hurts!

it could truly be devastating for a girl to be teased. but at such a young age, i would not favor the surgery. there are many ways to explain how unique a child is. it is self confidence that has to be developed. and what is most important is the parents should act about the bullying. it will not stop and even if the girl had surgery, what assurance would there be for the child to not be bullied again?

I wouldn't want my child to undergo surgery at a young age. What she did is totally not acceptable. I would suggest someday when she is bigger like 17.

Now that is really going overboard! No kid should have plasitic surgery unless they have e cleft lip or something like that! This mom will do anything it sounds like to help you daughter out but is doing it the wrong way! If her child is being bullied she should talk to the teachers and the principal about it! Not have her kids ears fixed! Sooner or later the girl has to face this stuff without mom! Mom needs to back off some! If she doesn't her daughter will be hovered over all her life! She will never been independent otherwise! It is good to be concern about you child but this is ridiculous!

It would depend on how big were the ears and on how low was her self steem. Being bullied can lead to awfull traumas later on in life. I probably would speak with a child´s psychologist before running to have a daughter have plastic surgery. But I think it is not easy to answer this and each case is different.

It's always sad when instead of rearing her child to develop self confidence, the mother resorts to the easy but expensive way out. The girl is far too young for plastic surgery and might get the idea that there would always be an easy way out of her own problems.

Not a chance!! I would teach her to respond to them: "if you can't accept me the way I am, then you're not worth my time." Then ignore them, and move on. We can't control the bullies, but we can do what we need to to ensure that our children have decent self esteem.

I saw that, and in this case I probably wouldn't have, but if it were something more extreme looking, I might.

It's always sad when instead of rearing her child to develop self confidence, the mother resorts to the easy but expensive way out. The girl is far too young for plastic surgery and might get the idea that there would always be an easy way out of her own problems.

When we speak about plastic surgery it necessarily does not mean for cosmetic purposes. I can understand that some say 7 years old is too young. But I will give you an example of a child in the family who at age 6 did get the plastic surgery to correct the shape of his ears. Our little guy had his ears way too big for some odd reason, he was born this way. Shriners hospital here is specifically for children with deformities and if a child is psychologically evaluated and found to have low self esteem due to some deformity as such they will at no charge, if the family is low income to do at no charge. This child at age 6 was being ridiculed and teased so badly at school and amongst his own neighborhood kids it really was necessary. He was refusing to go out doors and when he did he only wanted to wear a full cover hat to cover his ears even indoors. Although this was not my child had it been, and if I knew it was safe as Shriners affirmed, yes I would do so. Now if we talk about Cosmetic plastic surgery just to enhance then know but this was not the case with our little guy.

My ears used to stick out when I was a child too, and I am very glad my mother didn't let me have plastic surgery because it made me more confident today. I think if you teach children to be confident and like their features and like being unique, there is no problem and the child will be fine and be able to deal with being teased. If you pursue plastic surgery, it is saying there is something wrong with them and there is a defect which takes away confidence. I remember in the halls being called dumbo and just not caring because my mother always told me my ears made me pretty and then I grew into them and am confident and happy with the way I look today!

I could never put my Child through plastic/cosmetic surgery so young! If my child were 16 years old and had been teased or bullied over a long period of time for something like ears that stick out, then I would consider it. I just think that 7 is way too young for a child to have that kind of surgery, unless there was a good medical reason for it being done, such as a condition that is detrimental to the health of the child.