What is the significance of wearing safety pins on clothing?
My daughter is 14 and is in the 8th grade. Over the past few months she has begun wearing safety pins in different places on her clothing when she goes to school. Sometimes they are on her pants, sometimes on her blouse sleeves and even on her shoes. They are very small safety pins and are usually multicolored. Sometimes it is just one and sometimes there are two or three interconnected.
She gets defensive and says they don't mean anything. As a rule when she gets defensive that means she is lying. She is moody and thinks that each boyfriend is "forever". But from what I have been told that is "normal" behavior for a girl her age. Except for being a pain in the *** about 20 hours a day, she isn't a bad kid. Does anybody know? What is the purpose of the safety pins? I almost forgot, NO, they aren't used to hold her clothes on or to fix torn fabrics.