"Clisby" wrote in message
m...
I haven't noticed it being common here (and heck, I'm down in Sin City
while you're up there with the snake handlers.)

Snake handlers LOL I'm in the Greenville area actually. But I know what you
mean.

I'm not counting
multiple ear piercings - that doesn't seem unusual among teenagers. I'm
also not counting a nose piercing in a girl from a culture where that's
common (Indian, say). I don't know that I've seen it in a 13-year-old,
but if I saw a girl who obviously was of Indian/Pakistani heritage, I'm
sure I wouldn't think twice about it if she had a nose piercing.

I had multiple ear piercings also, but I did those myself when I was 14.
These girls I am seeing aren't pierced for cultural reasons. One of them is
my cousin and her best friend, her mother doesn't understand what people see
wrong with it. Then last night I ran into a family we used to live next to
when all our kids were toddlers. Now they are teenagers with tongue and lip
rings and pretty questionable reputations. After looking at the 13 year
old's myspace, with pictures of her and her boyfriend with tongues down each
other's throats, I am getting a sense that it involved a very
lax-to-nonexistent parenting attitude.

Besides, if you let them get facial piercings when they're 13, what are
you going to fight about?

Ugh, yeah. My oldest is 13 and so far there's not been any big fights about
anything. I've been enjoying this time, besides the moodmonster popping up
occasionally.
Marie