My 6-year-old wanted to get his ears pierced  Oct. 25, 2010 at
10:58 AM ET  By Jodi Nelson for  In the spirit of always pushing
my brain to new places, my six-year-old son, Roan, threw this
one at me over breakfast a few days ago:  "I'd like to get my
ears pierced. Ok?"  "Nope. You're too young. When you' you can
choose to get that done."     "Because I haven't had enough
coffee yet, and cannot answer any more questions."  And
thankfully, my boy knows to respect the "I haven't had enough
coffee" clause in all discussions, and dropped it. Until I
picked him up from school that same day, when he picked it right
back up. He'd been doing some thinking and was ready for me and
my flimsy brain. Roan asked me if I'd had time to think about
it, and I said yes. Then he asked what my answer was, and I said
it was the same. To which he replied, surprisingly (ha!), "Why?"
I explained to him that my main job as his mom is to protect
him. And that if he had his ears pierced, in our world and our
culture and our neighborho