Replies to '05/29 Parenting Dilemmas'

I live in a small back woods town, and have been getting tattoos since I turned 18, my parents were dissapointed at first, but as time went on they got use to them, I am up to 13 now, a full sleeve in the working. My mother got one done with me for her 50th birthday, plus she got her nose ond tongue pierced and plans to get her belly button done, she always said she would try her best to take interest in everything her kids did. Now I am presently having a full sleeve done, and have been doing tattoos myself for two years. I also work in a respectful job, where they don't care what I look like, my union backs my freedom of choice. I am a mother of a beautiful 5 year old girl, and she likes that mommy looks like a colouring book, lol. My husband is very conservative, it took me five years to convince him to get his third tattoo. For the girl from the show your ink looked great and don't ever let anyone put you down for it, I was always told by my original tattoo artist, god rest his soul that there are two kinds of people in this world, those with tattoos and those without, the difference is that those with them don't care if you have ink or not. I always told my mom, she knew where I was and what I was doing, and still as an adult today she always knows, and she can be confident I wasn't doing drugs, or excessively drinking. I was away at a union educational last fall, and at the end of the week the one woman I became good friends with told me when she first got to the place she was scared and nervous but as soon as she seen me she felt she could sit next to me and she would be ok, when I asked her why she said it was because of my tattoos, she could tell I am someone who is comfortable with myself. And she was right, I am comfortable with me more now than I was before I ever got a tattoo. So those who judge, just remember just because we have tattoos doesn't make us much different than you, the only difference between us is that we aren't judging you.