I bought this for my daughter because she has very sensitive ears. She got her ears pierced when she was 6 months old, and she was wearing a pair of expensive ($50) white gold with diamonds huggie earrings. She had it in her ears since she was 6 months old and never even noticed it, until I decided to mess around with it out of nowhere and lost one. Anyway, I didn't really feel like forking over another $50, so instead, I bought a few pair of earrings from Walmart that were sterling silver; but her ears got a terrible reaction to the metal - she gets that from me, I have sensitive ears too, I could never wear anything that wasn't at least 14k. I always trust Amazon's jewelry (well, when Amazon is the direct seller), because I have bought a few things from them over the years and had them taken to a jeweler to see if they were real, and they always were.

Anyway, they are rather small, which is perfect for a toddler. They aren't so tiny that they look like a grain of rice or anything, and actually, on a kid's ears, they are a nice size. They are real because my daughter has them in her ears and there isn't any scab or redness forming (thank God!). She also leaves them alone. With the Walmart earrings, she always pulled them off (I gathered because they were itching and irritated her), but with these, she'll touch them sometimes out of curiosity, but I haven't seen her tugging at them - and the good thing is that it is ball screws, which makes it hard for her to just yank them out like the backings that comes with studs. I think for babies and toddlers, the best earrings are huggies and screw backs, because they can't pull them out.

It arrived within a week with Free Super Saving Shipping, and the price I got them for was great. I got them for under $25, I don't know how much it cost now though - it was like maybe $22 or something, but I got an additional 20% off because Amazon was doing a promotional at the time for their jewelry for Valentine's Day. I recommend.

Oh, and like others, I did have a problem with stripping one of the backs, but I fixed that by simply taking a thread of cotton from a Q-tip and stuffing it into the hole. Works perfect now. (To do this, the cotton has to be no thicker or longer than about one, single eyelash, and then use a fine sewing needle to stuff the cotton all the way into the hole. It's a bit time consuming, about 15 minutes of trying to poke the tiny cotton into the hole with the needle, but fixes the problem!) I didn't really want to replace it, only because I was worried that it might take about a week for the replacement to arrive, and my daughter's ears had closed up a bit in just 3 days without any earrings, so I decided to "supermom" it instead.