My parents got my one-year-old’s ears pierced behind my back – I came up with an ultimatum but they now call me ‘stupid’
A MUM has admitted she was left fuming when she discovered her parents pierced her one-year-old’s ears behind her back.
She said that her parents – who she was visiting in Mexico – bought her little girl some earrings for her first birthday, when her ears were not pierced.
“I told them that I would save them for her until she was old enough to get her ears pierced,” she wrote in a post on Reddit’s Am I The A*shole? thread.
However, when she left her daughter with her parents as she and her husband went out with friends, she got a big surprise when she returned to pick the tot up.
“When we went to pick up my daughter my mum showed us that we didn’t need to wait because they had taken her to get her ears pierced,” she added.
At that point, she “dragged her husband” out of the house and back to their hotel, before he “lost his s**t”.
“I am furious,” she said.
“My husband said that my parents are not allowed to spend time alone with my daughter ever again.
“I went farther. I said that I would not be bringing her, or any other kids we might have, down here to see my parents.
“We checked out three days early and went home.”
After a couple of days, when things had cooled down, she decided to call her parents to explain her anger over the situation.
“I told them that my husband and I are upset with them for getting our baby’s ears pierced without our permission,” she continued.
“I told them that we went back home and probably wouldn’t be visiting for a while.
“I said that we were not going to change our minds.
“They started getting everyone including my grandmother to call me and say I was being ridiculous.”
She then talked to her husband, and they came up with an ultimatum.
“We agreed that we would resume visits, but not alone time, with them if they both got their noses pierced,” she said.
“They said that we are being stupid and that they are not going to do that.
“I said no problem and hung up.”
“People were quick to weigh in, and the majority insisted the mum wasn’t in the wrong.”People were quick to weigh in, and the majority insisted the mum wasn’t in the wrong.
“Putting holes in a child’s body (that’s not your child) should be down right abuse and punishable by crime,” one raged.
“Hilarious clap back to them,” another said.
“Protect your child.
“Can’t believe they felt entitled enough to get a baby’s ears pierced without getting permission.”
“Protect your child from these people who would do this to them knowing you wouldn’t agree,” a third commented.
“The nose piercing made your point even though they most likely wouldn’t understand.”