KT

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>I've gotten so tired of all that down here in the Bible Belt! When anyone
>asks, I just tell them that my children are autodidacts and leave it it that.
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Most people I say that to don't know what autodidact means and are too
afraid to ask. My 8 yo uses that to describe himself, too. He's really
surprised when I tell him which other people are autodidacts, too. I
guess he thought he was the only one? lol.

Jon needed a real diploma*, so I made him one. I was using an example I
saw on Ann Zeise's site, and so I needed a name for the "school". It's
"Autodidact Asylum" in a huge olde English swirly font. We figure that
anyone who's going to ask him for the diploma is not going to be smart
enough or brave enough to ask about it...and Jon is adept at diverting
*those* kinds of questions, anyway.

Oh well, *I* thought it was clever. lol.

*He's 17 and kind of caught in limbo between two different states'
regulations since he splits his time between here and his Dad's....so
the easiest way to get him out of that in both states was to graduate
him. In May school will be out for the summer, so it won't be as much
of an issue, but then there are 3 months during the school year before
he turns 18 in November. I really abhore compulsory attendance.

Tuck

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KT

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>Where is the best place to get ears pierced? It sounds like the mall is out. My older dd said she saw a sign at Wal-Mart for free ear piercings. My dd said "yea that would be great if you don't care where the whole is."
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I've had mine done 3 times. (same hole each time!) The first two times
I was about 10 or 14 or something, and it was done at home by a friend's
mother. (And my mother was ticked off because I didn't get permission!)
Ice on the lobe to numb it, and then a fine needle pushed through to
the potato half held behind. They closed up both times, mainly because
I didn't wear earrings enough. One or the other would get infected on
occasion, and a little alcohol on a short piece of broom stick worn for
a few days would clear it up.

The third time I had it done in the mall when I was 20, and they healed
up and have been fine ever since. I've gone long periods of time, weeks
and months, without wearing earrings. But I can always pop some back
in. Perhaps at younger ages we heal so quickly that there's no stopping
them closing up.

It's a tradition around here for many African-Americans to pierce their
babies' ears within the first month or so. I wouldn't do it, but to
each her own.

I think it's like birthing and raising children, though...it's become
regulated and/or "professionalized" "for our own good" by people who
think they know better.

Tuck

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In a message dated 1/31/02 7:29:11 AM, Tuck@... writes:

<< It's a tradition around here for many African-Americans to pierce their
babies' ears within the first month or so. I wouldn't do it, but to
each her own.
>>

Hispanic baby girls get pierced ears that early too, here. I guess so you
can tell the girls from the boys. <g>

I don't know whether that might make the hole easier to maintain, that it's
"always" been there.

None of my kids have wanted tattoos. That would be a hard one for me,
because if they grow up to regret it, there it is.

It's funny that I don't feel that way about educational choices! <g> Tattoos
are hard to remove, but chemistry classes are all over the place. They have
a friend who stays here a lot who's in high school who has a pierced tongue
and eyebrow. He has had for at least a year. They haven't said "I want what
ERIC'S got!" Maybe they really *are* making rational, mature decisions.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

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>It's funny that I don't feel that way about educational choices! <g> Tattoos
>are hard to remove, but chemistry classes are all over the place. They have
>a friend who stays here a lot who's in high school who has a pierced tongue
>and eyebrow. He has had for at least a year. They haven't said "I want what
>ERIC'S got!" Maybe they really *are* making rational, mature decisions.

If they want their tongues pierced, you might want to turn over
responsibility for their dental bills as well. My daughter knows a lot of
people with pierced tongues who have cracked and lost fillings and even
teeth because of the tongue jewellery.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island

Sharon Rudd

Huck's sweetheart has a pierced tongue, and a tatoo on
her lower calf.

BTW
If my grandfather had had a pierced nose, his nose
hair would have gotten tangled!! He also had long
overhanging eyebrows. He had the sort of ear-hair
that might have tangled in earrings, though his
"head"hair would not have. :)

Sharon of the Swamp



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