Has anybody seen or heard about the mom who was arrested for tattooing her 11 year old daughter in North Carolina last week? In case you haven’t……this mother, who is a tattoo artist (allegedly), tattooed a small heart on her child’s shoulder because the little girl asked her to do it.

The fact that the child asked to get a tattoo doesn’t bother me a bit. Our girl’s mention they want tattoos all of the time. We just tell them no, daddy isn’t going to jail for you just because you can’t wait until you are 18 years old. It just blows my mind that this mom was okay with this. As a parent, I couldn't imagine saying, "Oh sure, sweetie. A tattoo at your age is a fabulous idea!"

The mom claims to have not known about any tattoo laws in her state. She says she wasn’t aware of the fact that no one under the age of 18 can get tattooed, regardless of parental consent. I have a serious problem with that statement. If we end of finding out that she’s an actual tattoo artist, then there is absolutely no excuse as to why she doesn’t know the laws in her state. It’s your business, your livelihood for goodness sake! That’s like a doctor saying he had no idea there were malpractice laws.

Should the mom go to prison if convicted? I don’t think she should. I see her benefitting more from parenting classes rather than serving any jail time. Being locked up, learning absolutely nothing about being a parent while being away from your daughter, to me, that’s an unnecessary punishment for both of them.

Should the daughter have the heart tattoo removed? I don’t believe it needs to come off; at least not right now. It’s already there; let her make that decision when she’s an adult. She has already endured the pain of getting a tattoo, why put her through the horrific pain of having the tattoo burned off her flesh? It just seems cruel to me. Not to mention the thousands of dollars it can take to remove a tattoo.

Too bad she didn’t read my blog before she decided to do this…..using the Little-Girl-No-Hurt-Tattoos may have been a better choice.