The world of youth fashion.
In the world of youth fashion “good old Europe” for several years there has been an accelerated growth in the popularity of piercings. A couple of years ago, 13-year-old boys and girls besieged jewelry stores, trying to seem like adults and causing envy among the “youngest” ones. But today things are different.
Entertainment still consists in buying bright items of youthful cult. They are colorful, absolutely safe for health and profitable (for reasonable money you can buy a lot of interesting things). And the goal of acquiring such symbolic things has remained the same: self-expression and the ability to feel someone special in a certain course of life.
However, the age level of buyers has fallen sharply. Already nine-year-old children, albeit under the supervision of their parents, take seriously the choice of accessories, being well-oriented both in specific sizes called “gauge” and in peculiar names: “bananas”, “tunnels”, “bars”, etc.
The opinions of adults differ, and in a strange way opposing points of view are expressed about the same thing. Many advocate children’s seriousness, the desire for beauty, for perfection, for mastering the new, establishing oneself in society through personal independent choice of clothing style, behavior among peers and the purchase of fashion accessories appropriate for age.
Listening to opponents of such type of jewelry as piercing, you understand that adults with traditional, classical thinking, typically defined as the mind of a serious and conservative person, see modern fashion accessories as a challenge, aggression, a decrease in the level of culture and the ability to awaken in young unformed minds desire for uncontrolled freedom and anarchy.
The most annoying thing is that attempts to prohibit this kind of jewelry sometimes on the contrary aggravate the situation. The stronger the burden of prohibition, the greater the danger that a child will have a strong craving for this method of self-expression.
Parents who calmly accept the child’s desire to develop “keeping pace with the modern world” and support their aspirations act wisely. They give the little man the freedom of choice: what he should be like, what type he belongs to, and what style (not only clothes but also life) he should choose. As a rule, in such families communication is practiced not at the level of “parents – children”, but as between real friends. This is a very important step in the development of society as a whole, and of its individual cells – families.