Parents getting tattoos for kids

Sugargirl1019

I wear an insulin pump.. I didn't need my parents to get tattoos of insulin pumps on their stomachs to make me feel better about being different. I always knew I was freaking special #brushesshoulderoff

I just wanted my parents support in dealing with it, even if it meant my mom had to find a way to tape my pump between my legs or my boobs to hide it in a tighter dress. I like support in the form of love, but the tattoo is a little AW "LOOK HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU".

Knottie40004360

Like Sugargirl1019, I also wear an insulin pump. My mom could've been in the "get an insulin pump tattoo" camp when I was little if we'd seen that idea then, but I'd feel really bad that she had to look at that every time she lifted up her shirt. My mother spent many years constantly monitoring my condition, helping me when I get sick, bringing me to different doctors, and I don't think it would've been fair for her to have another reminder that she had this horribly sick child.

KatieinBkln

I couldn't roll my eyes hard enough at this shit. People can and should get whatever tattoos they want to, but getting your kid's life started with the assumptions that A. everyone is going to make fun of them, and B. they can't possibly handle being teased about something, seems like a recipe for self-fulfilling prophecy. Getting the tattoos just reinforces the notion that yeah, your birthmark is super weird and different. Instead of "hey, that is a thing that you have that is unique to you, cool, huh?" Little kids (really little ones) usually don't have any notion that something about them is "strange" unless their parents harp on it. Getting a matching birthmark tattoo seems like the definition of "harping on it" to me.