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Body Piercing: Is Your Child Ready?

by Ellen Rooney Martin, Posted Dec 8th 2010 3:00PM

Does your teen want a navel piercing? Credit: Corbis
It might be hard to imagine your perfect child with a pierced ear, much less a pierced tongue or navel. But in the event they ask you before they pierce, doctors say the same health rules ...It might be hard to imagine your perfect child with a pierced ear, much less a pierced tongue or navel. But in the event they ask you before they pierce, doctors say the same health rules apply for babies, teenagers and adults.
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Want Higher Orthodontist Bills? Let Your Child Get a Tongue Piercing

by Monique El-Faizy, Posted Aug 4th 2010 4:00PM

Wanna pierce your tongue? Start saving for braces. Credit: Getty
The joys of parenting: You bring your perfect little bundle of joy home from the hospital ... and she cries all night. In preschool, she refuses to wear anything but a neon pink ...
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Student's Husband Banned From School

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 17th 2008 2:00PM

Reading this headline, it should be apparent that this student isn't your typical high-schooler. At 17-years-old, Brittany Engstrom is married. She's a senior at Hubbard High School in Ohio and lives with her 19-year-old husband Casey and his ...
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Piercings may be a no-no, but criticizing the policy is a-ok

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 11th 2007 12:01PM

A little over a year ago, Shawn Gobert, the principal of Greencastle Middle School, in Greencastle, Indiana, came across a web page on MySpace that he had supposedly created. One of his students, identified only as A.B., posted some derogatory and ...
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Pediatrician denies care because of parent's tattoos

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 17th 2007 3:31PM

If your kid has ever had an ear infection, you know how much pain it can cause a child. Tasha Childress knows. Her daughter had one, so Childress took her to see a pediatrician. That doctor, however, refused to treat the girl because Childress has ...
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Body modification goes beyond a simple tattoo these days

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 6th 2006 5:00PM

I remember during the years when I was an early teen that I felt angry, restricted and wanted dearly to do something, anything, shocking. It was the late 80's so I bought a bunch of gel and super strength hairspray, gave myself BIG bangs, listened ...
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