How to get my parents to allow a belly button ring?

Here are 5 useful tactics!

1. Research If you are well educated about the piercing of your desire, it will be much easier to assuage the fears of your parents. Taking the time to research it will show them that you know exactly what you’re getting into. You’ll be knowledgeable about the risks involved, and parents are more likely to listen to a kid that knows what they’re talking about. (When I wanted a tongue ring at 14, I did a powerpoint!)

2. Responsibility You need to convince your parents that you’ll follow through with the appropriate after-care.

3. Familiarize By now, (if you’ve done your research) your parents don’t know a third of what you know about piercings. You need to give them a little while to gain as much information as you have. Also, they’re probably not used to the idea of you sticking metal through your flesh – this too, could take a little time. Find some websites explaining the piercing and let your parents read it.

4. Money Believe it or not, your parents might not want to shell out $45 for a piercing – a piercing they didn’t want you to get in the first place. Paying for it yourself (or at least offering) shows your responsibility and commitment to the piercing. Also, this makes the situation more favorable for your parents.

5. Patience Patience, they say, is a virtue. Prove to your parents that this is a piercing you’ll want all your life, a piercing you don’t mind waiting for. Bugging them 24/7 about what you want could work, but it’s not likely. Even if it did work, I’m sure your parents wouldn’t think any better of the piercing – or you. If your parents still stubbornly say “no”, you’d better just wait. You’ll be 18 soon enough. They could even change their mind before then, after seeing how maturely you’ve been acting. (Not pestering them goes a long way.)

Hope this helps!