Personally I can't stand seeing boys with earrings. Even when I was at school and had loads of piercings myself, I didn't like that my boyfriend had one LOL. So my answer would be no, I wouldn't let my boys get their ears pierced, but then Mum only ever 'let' me get one in each ear and I ended up with 5 in each ear so I may not have as much say as I'd like in the long run. Same for my girls. My kids play sport too where they can't have them in and it is a PITA when you have a child or several children who hole up a game while they take their earrings out at last minute.