Stretching + Parents

[yizzerg]

A recent post here made me think a little bit. I've heard a lot about people made to stop by their parents, but I wonder if it's really that necessary. Mine certainly didn't know anything about it until I told them. With the stretching process as gradual as it is, it seems to me that unless your parents inspect the size of your earlobes often they

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[meeokie]

My parents know and my mom doesn't really care for them.
I know that tunnels freak her out though, so I try to be respectable and wear solid things around her. She doesn't really get on my case though, she did when I was younger.

[evershnooks]

My mom didn't know till I had these big disgusting spikes in my ears at 4g. She freaked out a bit in the sense, "Why are you doing this to yourself!?" and then forgot about it.

Now we look at jewelry together.

[llama_egg]

my parents know, they cared for a while but even my mum thinks some things are pretty.especially when i bought some shell hanging designs for my 8g 2nd holes and bought her the same pair in regular earrings.
i'm at 7/16 btw.

[crimsontwylite]

My mom keeps asking me when I'm going to stretch up to the next size so that we can buy shell hanging designs, haha. She asked me if there was a way to get a "perfect white pair" from BAF, and I told her I wasn't sure so she asked if she could contact them so my "earrings would be so pretty!". Oh Mom.<3

[yizzerg]

Essentially you've done the same thing, though. You have a tattoo that you hide from them, seems to be along the same lines of "helping" your parents mistake solid plugs for post earrings.

[crimsontwylite]

I remember asking my parents about getting a tattoo, and the first thing they told me was that they didn't care about it but their only rule was that it would be able to be hidden and it wasn't crazy and huge. They even took me on my eighteenth birthday to get it because they were excited/they wanted to make sure of its placement.

[yizzerg]

It's perfectly reasonable for parents to give you a choice between stretching your ears and paying your cell phone bill. You choose the most important option . But a lot of people could avoid conflict by simply keeping mum.

[yizzerg]

And if they do notice, I think you should definitely be prepared for the consequences. Loss of cell phone, loss of financial support for college, whatever. I hate it when people get all outraged about how mean their parents are about the whole thing.

Well, if you went and did something against their wishes, why do you expect them to fulfill all of your own wishes?

I agree with you on all of these points. What really brought this thought to my mind were people at the smaller sizes ( < 2g ) posting about their parents blowing up (not necessarily posts in this community).

I'm not trying to say that there's honor in being sneaky, I guess I'm not explaining that well.