When she was still wanting a nose piercing after 6 months of discussing it, I made a condition that she had to take care of the piercing and that it had to be extremely small. The earring is so small it is hardly noticeable. She came to me about it and it was something we discussed for about 6 months. I tend to try to focus on the big stuff.

Clearly your daughter is a lot more responsible than my ex devil step children from hell <s>. These kids were so spoiled that they actually believed that if you didn't buy them a brand new car for their 16th birthday that they could report you to childrens services for being an abusive parent. When Michael, the middle child, turned 16, his mother gave him a brand new Mazda. Within a week, he had wrecked it while driving drunk. His father then went out and replaced the Mazda with a used Honda. I was furious, I told Terry (my ex) that he should not have bought him another car and that Michael should have had to get around by riding a bicycle. The youngest boy got arrested at the age of 13 for breaking and entering. He and a pal were trying to break into a beer cooler at a pizza shop.

I did my best as the wicked step mother to get them to straighten up and fly right, but with the indulgent parents that they had for most of their lives, it was doomed to failure from the start.