sandbox and braids

[Anonymous]

So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.

[Anonymous]

Braids or no braids - no sand should be poured over a kids head. This is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.

Maybe OP’s DD is squirmy? Or just tender headed? My eldest would need frequent breaks when getting her hair cornrowed. She was so tender-headed! It probably doubled the total time in the chair.

[Anonymous]

Ugh OP sorry for some of these responses, clearly from non-AA posters.

I think it’s definitely worth a conversation with the director. I agree to not talk so much about the cost and time of the hair because they may not understand and/or think it’s frivolous, but no one should be pouring sand on your daughter’s head, period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not related, but only $70 for 4.5 hours??? That seems so low. I pay that for a one hour haircut!

We pay by the job, not the hour. That is the case for most hair services, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.

OP here, yes I totally agree 4.5 hours was ridiculous. This was a new braider. Our old braider it would take a little over 2 hours for box braids from start to finish. Other styles similarly took about 2 hours and that included washing and blow drying. This braider is nice, but slow. She did take some breaks in between and luckily it was at our house, so I was able to cook/clean/do stuff around the house and my daughter was able to play with her tablet & eat during the braiding. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh OP sorry for some of these responses, clearly from non-AA posters.

I think it’s definitely worth a conversation with the director. I agree to not talk so much about the cost and time of the hair because they may not understand and/or think it’s frivolous, but no one should be pouring sand on your daughter’s head, period.

And you clearly haven’t been around many 3 year olds in sandboxes.

If you put your child in group care that costs less than a private nanny, you’ll get what you pay for — which is not individual attention. Sand gets everywhere in an instant!

Tell your daughter to play in a different area, or have her wear a hat/scarf/shower cap in the sandbox.

When my son had a cast on his arm, the sandbox was off limits (in an effort to try to keep him clean, which in retrospect - HA!)

[Anonymous]

Ask them to not allow your child to play in the sandbox. That is the only way to ensure it won’t happen again.

[Anonymous]

Ughh I am totally with you, OP. It drives me so crazy. Between sand, mulch and leaves, no one understood that I couldn't just wash my daughter's hair at the end of the day. Don't get me started on crazy hair day popping up out of the blue with not a lot of notice, either.

[Anonymous]

WTF? She's 3. You're lucky you're not finding more than just sand in her hair.

[Anonymous]

Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

Gross. Racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

Gross. Racist.

How is this racist? Any child that plays in a sandbox is going to get sand all over. A daycare worker that is supervising multiple children can’t stop her kid from getting sand in her hair. Truly, how is this racist?

This cheapens comments that actually ARE racist.

[Anonymous]

I get upset when I send my little girl to preschool and her nice dresses get all dirty. How dare the teacher (who is supervising multiple other children) allow that to happen?!

[Anonymous]

Sidebar but I'm surprised your daycare has a sandbox. Ours removed it after some overzealous parents circulated articles about parasites and what not.