My 15-year-old son let his best friend (17) pierce his nipples while they were home alone with stuff they bought online. My son came to me afterwards to confess because “dad, what if it gets infected or something!!!” (post-thrill clarity?). Wasn’t mad (mainly disappointed); took him to a professional piercer & doctor to check it out and apparently the piercings were positioned well & there was no sign of infection, also got an aftercare plan. So I’m wondering now what? Obviously it was a dumb and reckless action but for some reason it doesn’t feel “groundable” to me. I feel like I should do something but also not really? We had a good open talk about everything though.
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Yeah, that’s what I meant by open talk. Also about open communication. Like he could’ve discussed it with me and why didn’t he.
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If he talked to you about it, you probably would have talked him out of it. Tells me deep down he knew it was stupid, but he wanted to do it.
I would talk to him about that part of it, help him recognize the choice he made to ignore your voice of reason in his own head.
I wouldn’t punish him for it, especially because he came to you to talk about it, but he’s getting closer to the age when he has to really pay attention to that voice in his head because you won’t be with him for every decision. Although, my kids often act like having to talk to me about things is punishment enough.