When my daughter was born, a lot of people asked me if I was going to get her ears pierced. After all, my ears are pierced and my husband has one pierced ear. Everyone in the family has pierced ears and several old friends pierced their children’s ears when they were infants. I elected to not pierce my daughter’s ears as an infant primarily because that’s a choice she should be able to make for herself when she is older. I felt this way for any number of reasons, but the largest was that such a change to her body … Continue reading →