Would You Be Angry if YOUR Child Came Home From Daycare With This?

[The Mystery Machine]

I would be beyond livid. The teacher committed battery.

Yep.

Wow, she certainly has no business taking care of children.

 

[Andtototoo]

Yeah, I'd be livid.

It would also make me wonder what else these idiots think they can do or have done to my child and/or my child's body without my consent or knowledge.

 

[Boston Tea Party]

I would spit fire.

 

[spacemountainmom]

This wouldn't be ok if my Mother or sister did this behind my back so there is no way that it would be ok for a teacher.

Agreed!!!


My friend was at work one day when her dd was about 6 months old and her dd's dad got off work early, went and picked up dd and his mom. The dad and grandma then took her dd out and had her ears pierced without any input from mom. My friend was absolutely furious. Grandma wanted it done and dad signed the consent.

It was bad enough in my friend's situation, I can't imagine a day care person just deciding to do this.

 

[Bren's Mom]

I would be beyond livid. The teacher committed battery.

The article is confusing to me, but IF a teacher pierced a child's ears at daycare...I agree completely with the above poster. I would consider it an assault on my child.

 

[luvmy3]

I would be outraged! If I had a daughter I would be upset if she spent the day with her Grandma and came home with pierced ears never mind finding a stranger had done it! It's just something as a mom I would want to do with my daughter.

Also, what did this teacher use to pierce this little girls ears?

She didn't pierce the little girl's ears, but it sounds like she used her own earrings to poke through previously pierced earring holes.

I would be beyond livid and I would want her fired immediately. I can't believe some of the parents at the school feel this is no big deal. That teacher broke the skin with an unsanitized object, there would be heck to pay if it was my dd

 

[Minnesota!]

The response from the daycare makes it sound as if the girl's ears were already pierced, and the teacher just let her borrow the earrings. So which is it?

I would be beyond angry to find out a teacher had pierced my daughter's ears.

This.

 

[MamaLema]

I work in daycare and I can't believe it. We wouldn't even have the idea to do that! How strange and disturbing!

 

[joyjoy]

Very angry! But, I think there is a tiny difference between her piercing them and putting earrings through already pierced ears. I think in the case of the former she should be fired. In the latter I would be okay if she was just disciplined. (Assuming she had never done anything questionable before.) For some reason though, and I am assuming here, I feel like what she did was pretty gutsy and may not be the first questionable thing she has done.

As someone who rarely wears earrings, my ears have closed up and I have shoved them through and that hurts. I'd be mad that my daughter was put through that pain. I'd be even more angry that she put her own dirty earrings in my daughter's ears.

Like anything else, looking in from the outside, I am sure there are three sides to this story: the parents, the teacher and the truth.

I agree with this, mostly. I'll bet the daycare employee was very young and kind of stupid, and didn't think letting the little girl wear her earrings was a big deal, since the ears were already pierced. I'm sure it was uncomfortable if the holes had been un-earringed for 2 years, but it isn't exactly like piercing them for the first time. My God, that child would have been screaming bloody murder! Anyway, I think the employee should be punished, but not sued or even fired. JMO.

ETA- But yes, I do find it very gross to wear someone else's pierced earrings. Yuck.

 

[kellyg403]

The response from the daycare makes it sound as if the girl's ears were already pierced, and the teacher just let her borrow the earrings. So which is it?

I would be beyond angry to find out a teacher had pierced my daughter's ears.

Yes, I am having a hard time understanding if the ears were pierced or not. Regardless, I would prefer to not have a teacher place dirty earrings from her ears to my child's ears. If the child's pierced ears were hurting, they were probably infected so putting dirty earrings in didn't really solve any issue. Whatever happened to calling a parent and asking them what to do?

Honestly, this is one of the weirdest things I have ever seen. Ok, not the weirdest, but who really asks a 5 yo and when they say its o.k. actually thinks its OK when they are an adult and its not their child.

If she went as far as piercing them herself, yes, she deserves to be fired. I wouldn't want that at all. These kinds of stories make me really really glad I don't have small children needing to go to daycare anymore. I am even more appreciative of the daycare my grandson goes to, I can't imagine anyone there would think this is o.k.

Kelly

 

[daughtersrus]

I was furious when DD came home from school (public not daycare) and I realized that her teacher had cut her bangs. I can only imagine how mad I would be if someone had her ears pierced without my permission.

 

[mrodgers]

Not to take away from the bad act, but every other post mentions dirty earrings.

"The teacher did place her earrings in the child's pierced ears...."

Everyone reads something extra into everything they read. It says the teacher placed her earrings in the child's pierced ears, not the teacher placed her dirty earrings. Last I knew, earrings can be cleaned and it doesn't state whether they were cleaned or not. Or do you girls throw away earrings after changing to a different pair and don't clean them?

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Oh my goodness, I would be..

 

[spacemountainmom]

Not to take away from the bad act, but every other post mentions dirty earrings.


Everyone reads something extra into everything they read. It says the teacher placed her earrings in the child's pierced ears, not the teacher placed her dirty earrings. Last I knew, earrings can be cleaned and it doesn't state whether they were cleaned or not. Or do you girls throw away earrings after changing to a different pair and don't clean them?

I'm the only one wearing MY earrings.

On the very rare occasion that MY daughter borrows MY earrings, they are cleaned before and after.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

If this was a fresh piercing, my head would explode.

I have a child whose ears are prone to infections and we take measures now to mitigate infections. Her infections were very painful to her.

I would be be out off if she just loaned earrings, but not be "angry" like I would be for her ear lobes to be tampered with via a fresh piercing.

However, if it were my oldest who we let the holes close to let them heal, my reaction would be more harsh in either circumstance.

 

[kellyg403]

Not to take away from the bad act, but every other post mentions dirty earrings.


Everyone reads something extra into everything they read. It says the teacher placed her earrings in the child's pierced ears, not the teacher placed her dirty earrings. Last I knew, earrings can be cleaned and it doesn't state whether they were cleaned or not. Or do you girls throw away earrings after changing to a different pair and don't clean them?

No, I soak them in hydrogen peroxide overnight and wipe their ears down. But you are right in the sense that none of us know where the earrings were before they went into her ears, just like we don't know how clean they were. For all we know, they were mismatched earrings someone found on the playground. Then again, the child could have been allergic to the metal in the cheap, clean earrings the teacher put in her ears. One of my dd's has to use plastic post earrings, everything else, even real gold causes her ears to get infected...odd as that is.

You do have to be careful with stories, even in mainstream media, they give out enough information to make it juicy. That way we can 'infer' enough to be mad as heck or figure the whole world is short on common sense.

Kelly

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

Someone educate me. I don't have piercings. Never have, never will.

If you take out the earrings, do the holes really close up over time? Or do the holes just get really tight?

 

[kellyg403]

Someone educate me. I don't have piercings. Never have, never will.

If you take out the earrings, do the holes really close up over time? Or do the holes just get really tight?

I think it depends on how long you have the piercing. I rarely wear earrings anymore. There was a time in my life where I wore several in my ears They have never closed up, even higher up in the ear.

But, when the dd's were little, if they didn't wear earrings they did close up. Scar tissue I would think.

Kelly

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Someone educate me. I don't have piercings. Never have, never will.

If you take out the earrings, do the holes really close up over time? Or do the holes just get really tight?

Kids that young will typically close.

Close doesn't mean the opening gets smaller, rather (IME) it seals over.

I have double pierced ears. The second piercing was done 19 years ago. I rarely wear earrings in them. Because of that, when I do want to wear an earring, I will often have to deal with a small seal in the back of my ear lobe that has to be punctured to get the earring in. That is after 19 years.

 

[tlbwriter]

Not to take away from the bad act, but every other post mentions dirty earrings.


Everyone reads something extra into everything they read. It says the teacher placed her earrings in the child's pierced ears, not the teacher placed her dirty earrings. Last I knew, earrings can be cleaned and it doesn't state whether they were cleaned or not. Or do you girls throw away earrings after changing to a different pair and don't clean them?

Once you take earrings out of your own ears, they are dirty. Think of it like a toothbrush. You'll reuse your own, but you're not going to use anyone else's unless someone cleans the heck out of it, and maybe not even then. Even if you know in your head that it's not likely to spread any infection, it's simply something you don't do to someone else's child. I know it's possible that the teacher cleaned her earrings before putting them in the child's ears, but if that was the case, don't you think the school would have emphasized that in their statement?