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My sons and daughters, all in their 20s, were over at the house the other day and we were talking about tattoos. None of them have a tattoo YET but they may get one or more soon all due to peer pressure. They are practically being harassed by family, friends, coworkers and neighbors, who have tattoos, to get one. They all said it is the thing to do, everyone has one and you are an outsider if you don't have one or more tattoos.
Are your adult kids getting a lot of peer pressure to get tattoos?
My son is 19 and has no desire to get a tattoo. A few of his friends have tattoos but most of them don't. I would think that as adults it is their decision to get one, or not.
My sons and daughters, all in their 20s, were over at the house the other day and we were talking about tattoos. None of them have a tattoo YET but they may get one or more soon all due to peer pressure. They are practically being harassed by family, friends, coworkers and neighbors, who have tattoos, to get one. They all said it is the thing to do, everyone has one and you are an outsider if you don't have one or more tattoos.
Are your adult kids getting a lot of peer pressure to get tattoos?
I thought you would have grown out of that stage once you reached your 20's.
I like tattoos on guys. I think it is sexy...lol. My dad associates tattoos with criminals. My sister has one that she regrets and I really really want one but Im too much of a chicken.
Just because tattoos aren't your particular cup of tea, doesn't mean that they are inherently bad. You object to tattoos because they are an attempt to stand out from the crowd, and that such a thing is vanity, right? When you get dressed for the day, do you make sure that everyone in your household wears exactly the same thing? Do you all have the same hair color and hair style? Do you wear jewelry, hats, etc? Because unless everyone in your sphere of influence looks exactly alike, then you're guilty of the same thing you're harping on about tattoos.
Following fashion versus disfigurement.
Big difference.
I don't see the problem here. Tattoos can be beautiful. And I have absolutely zero concerns about my socioeconomic status.
I told my kids that some tattoos are beautiful but they are so very permanent. People change and what they think is so beautiful in their 20s will look ugly to them in their 30s.
If your 20 year old has not become bullet proof to peer pressure yet, they need to figure that out... like yesterday.
I agree with you. My twenties are long behind me, but I do remember several occasions when I went against the tide of fads, etc. I think this was the time when you were put to the test of being an independent adult.
But in all fairness, the last two generations of American have been raised in a culture that has made a fetish of being a teenager as long as possible and of following all manner of fads well into your middle twenties and beyond. And intellectual development is scorned. Growing up and acting as an independent adult are anathema now. So the OP's kids are probably being subject to much more severe pressure than I was, both from their peers and the culture.
I would never want to have been a teenager or young adult since the Eighties.
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