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Old Thu Mar 21, 2013, 03:03pm
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Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
To your credit, your scenario was slightly different than what I'm arguing about - your kid had earrings on display and wanted to put tape over them and "they" said it was ok. That's probably a different "they". I just think we become part of the problem when we look the other way. For what it's worth, I don't feel the same about the arm sleeves and I've stopped caring about headband color as well. But jewelry seems to make sense as a safety issue and I just won't allow it.
Neither will I, I think we only disagree on how far we'll take the effort to spot the jewelry. Not significantly, I don't think.

As Rut noted, the odds of actual jewelry staying hidden are pretty slim (this particular kid had the backs of the ears covered as well, so a simple "nothing" wouldn't have worked well), and I know what the back of an earring looks like.
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