"Hardly a day goes by that I don't put a temporary tattoo on my 3-year-old daughter. We shop for them together at a nearby party store, and she usually picks out something butch and scary, bypassing even her beloved Dora the Explorer in favor of a dragon or some occult-looking celestial weirdness with moons and stars and stuff."

- Cliff Doerksen, Tattoo You, May 15, 2007

I wonder if JP had tried this approach would I not have inked up my body? I doubt it. I like my tattoos. Still, am I wrong in that this is another example of how my generation approaches parenting differently than our parents?

While it's certainly not hipster in the vein as those people who dress their children in faux vintage rock t-shirts, daily tattoo application is pretty emblematic of those of us who were born in the 1970s. When I have kids, I bet I'd do it.

Posted by Erin at 11:26 AM | filed under: Blog move