How would you feel if you dropped off your little 5 year old daughter at daycare, expecting her to play with dolls and color, to learn upon pick-up that her daycare provider has pierced her ears without your consent?
One Texas mother is facing this reality, as a KinderCare teacher has decided that the young girl giving permission is enough and has pierced the girl's ears.
Yes, the 5 year old said it was okay to do, so the adult went ahead and did it.
Now if you read this article
HERE, you might be confused. The article paints two pictures - the girls' ears were NOT pierced and the teacher pierced them herself, and that the girls' ears were ALREADY pierced, but the teacher placed her OWN earrings into the girls' ears.
Either way,
how would you feel if this happened to your daughter?
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I wouldn't be too pleased, to say the least. Umm, my husband would be so livid, it wouldn't be funny! He's dead set against our daughter getting her ears pierced until she's like a teenager, when she can choose, for sure, if she wants them. If a teacher just did that? I'm sure he'd be raising all kinds of hell, lol.
Wow.....uh.....I'd be kind of insulted. Why wasn't I, the child's mother, or her father consulted? Does the person who did it even have the training or license to do it? Why do it in child care?
First of all, she isn't the little girl's mother. She is her great aunt and is in the process of adopting her. Secondly, according to this great aunt, the little girl already had her ears pierced two years prior by the biological mother. There is a distinct difference between piercing ears, and pushing an earring through a closed hole. Third, this Cardenas woman said that she won't be consoled until the teacher has been fired. Really? She wants to see a teacher lose her job over sticking an earring in a kid's ALREADY pierced ear?
Yeah, the teacher made a really bad judgment call, but that warrants discipline, not termination from her job.
Also, really Momaroo? It took me about ten seconds to find the original news article. You really should fact check a little more thoroughly.
I'm a little bit confused on whether the girl had her ears pierced already. If they weren't pierced, I would be VERY upset that they didn't ask my permission first. If they were pierced, I think i would still be upset since I don't know where those earrings came from. I don't know. I would be upset either way.
@blondexsunshine@xanga - Her ears were already pierced. I've read three different articles, and they all state that her ears were already pierced. Like you, I would also be upset. But the woman who is making a big deal over this wants the teacher fired. While I would be pissed, I wouldn't try to take the job of a teacher just because she did that. Teach deserves a couple of days suspension, but she doesn't deserve to lose her job over something so trivial.
@ohveryoung@xanga - The information I have is from one news story, upon searching now there are hundreds and all have slightly different details.
But either way, previously pierced or not, biological mother or not, should the daycare teacher stuck an earring in the child's ear?
i'd be upset either way. no one pierces my little girl's ears without mine AND the father's permission. i don't care if it's her great aunt, her sister, her grandma or what...MINE AND THE FATHER'S PERMISSION ONLY.
if her ears were already pierced and the lady put her earrings in her ears? i'd still be pissed, that's not sanitary at all. earrings need to be cleaned thoroughly before being placed in someone else's ears.@Mandi - Nah, she shouldn't have. But if I were a mother, I wouldn't make such a stink over this. I'd request that the teacher be discplined, and would remove the earrings from my kid's ears. They're just earrings, it's not like the teacher put a tattoo on the kid's face.
I would be furious!
if a daycare pierced my daughter's ears I'd sue. Daycare providers are not certified to own the equipment to pierce ears, none that I have ever herd are anyway. Those piercing guns are expensive, and the health board would have a conniption fit if they found out. (my best friend and his wife are professional tattoo artists and piercers. I know what they had to go through to open a shop, it was nuts).
Now if my daughter already had pierced ears and wanted earrings in, as long as they had been cleaned properly I would not have a problem with it. (Im a little obsessive about cleaning earrings.. I clean mine before I put them in, and I sterilize new ones at least twice before i use them) But I would most likely be a little annoyed that I was not called first.
Anyone defending the teacher clearly has no insight into hygiene standards. Piercing a kid's ear is a big fucking deal because, God forbid, the needle or whatever the hell the teacher used for the piercing was not properly sterilized, it could have caused serious infections for the poor child whose immune system is especially weak in comparison to that of an adult. Thankfully, I don't see any mentions of health consequences, but there are so many what-if's to consider. If I were the mother, that teacher should brace for a storm because she is going dooooown. I'm beyond infuriated just hearing this, and I normally couldn't care less about how kindergartens operate.
Um, not okay.
I'd be pissed and expect money.
I would say "Thank you for the free ear piercing."
@heaventtonight@xanga - she already had her ears pierced, though. Nobody shot a hole in her ear or rammed a needle through her earlobes. Her ears were already pierced.
@written_conversations@xanga - That makes it only slightly better, but it wouldn't make for that much of a difference I'm afraid. The hygiene issues would still be there either way. Either way, it's not acceptable.
@heaventtonight@xanga - Yeah, it isn't okay. But would you be okay with seeing someone lose their job because of that? Especially in this economy. If that teacher loses her job over this, I highly doubt she'll gain a teaching profession again any time soon. I just think it's pretty silly to get all worked up over something that can be changed by simply taking out the earrings.
I am starting to get the impression (after reading many Huffington Post articles) that they are not very reliable. Everything they say contradicts itself a few paragraphs later in almost ever article they write.
That link alone contradicts..... "The teacher did place her earrings in the child's pierced ears. The safety and security of the children in our care is our top priority. We take this situation seriously and have reported it to State Licensing. In addition, the teacher was disciplined."
"Shawna Cohen over at Mommyish questions this line of thinking though. "There's also the whole safetyissue to consider, too. That's what would freak me out the most. Asin, did this brilliant teacher bother to sterilize the needle before using it (and what was she doing with needles, anyway)?'
Allin the same article. Plus, as others have also mentioned here, in many other articles about this issue, the child's ears WERE ALREADY PIERCED.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2011/11/22/5-year-olds-ears-pierced-without-mom
Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Jim Thomson told the paper that its crimes against children unit examined the incident, but determined that it did not meet the criteria for criminal activity because Mia's "ears had previously been pierced and earrings reinserted."
The only issue here is sanitation from the teacher giving the child her own earrings and "re-piercing" if that's what she did, or just putting them through her ears already pierced....., but it hardly warrants the teacher being fired.
I'd be pissed if my child's ears were not already pierced.
If they were already pierced then I'd find it strange but not too worrisome.
That teacher is really dumb. If I had children I wouldn't want her taking care of them. Earrings need to be completely sanitized before use and taking your own earrings and sticking them in someone else's child's ears... why would she do that? WHY would that seem like a good idea ever?
I've worked with small children. If you have shiny earrings the girls might say things like, "oooh let me wear them!" That's when you say, "No sweetie," and distract them with other things. It's unsanitary and the moment you let one child try your earrings on you open the floodgates for all the other children. I don't know if those were the circumstances but I'd wager they were similar and that teacher really doesn't know what she's doing.
It wouldn't because my child(ren) will not be going to daycare.
i would be extremely annoyed if this happened. if my child was going to get her ears pierced i would be the one to make the decision if she only 5 years old!
Okay, piercings DO close up. Two years is definitely a long enough period of time for the holes to close up in the little girl's ears. I'm sure it varies with each individual but I'm sure their was at least one layer of skin the teacher had to push through to get her earrings in which would be re-piercing the child's ears. Piercings should only be done by a licensed professional and they should not be done to a five year old that had no parental consent. I would definitely hope the teacher would lose her job, if she did it once I'm sure she'll do it again.
I don't think the teacher should have pierced the kid's ears. It's not her child and the parents feelings about that should be taken into account. Not to mention, the teacher may not have sanitized whatever she pierced the 5 year old ears with, and probably isn't a professional in doing piercings, and shouldn't have done it. She should be fired, this makes me FURIOUS.
Pierced or not pierced, I'd be mad. I'd be a little creeped out if my daughter's were pierced already and came home with earrings from her teacher. I mean, first of all, where did those earrings come from? And why are you giving my daughter gifts? And why are you touching her unnecessarily in such an intimate way? It'd be a Sandunsky all over again. (Haha.)