DAILI Earrings for Kids

The back is the whole argument on this page. A butterfly clutch comes off in a jumper, in a swimming pool and in a hairbrush, and a child does not notice until the evening. A screw back has a thread: it goes on, it tightens, and it stays until somebody turns it. A flat back presses on and lies flush behind the lobe with nothing to catch. Both are 20G, which is the thinnest post in this catalogue and the usual gauge for a child's lobe, and both are short enough that there is no spare length behind the ear.

On when and how, this page defers to the paediatricians rather than to itself. The American Academy of Pediatrics says to wait until a child is old enough to look after the site, to have it done where it will be done cleanly, to leave the first earring in for four to six weeks turning it gently each day, and to treat redness or tenderness as a reason to see a doctor rather than to wait. Children's jewellery sold in the United States is also under a hard legal limit for lead, published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and linked below. We cite the rule; we publish no test results, because we hold none.