Can I highlight my baby's hair this summer?

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Anonymous wrote:in addition to lemoning your DD's hair, do make sure you ut her on a diet to make sure she's not "too" chubby - fat babies aren't cute, contrary to popular opinion. and put a little lipstick to make her lips pinker. also, i hope you can afford good clothes for her - she really should only be i n designer clothes. you know how cruel children can be.

She is a 98th percentiler which is actually a huge relief given my own nutrition issues. I don't ever want her to feel like she is too chubby but I don't ever want her to be too thin, either. I want her to be happy with who she is.

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Oh dear god, please be a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh dear god, please be a troll.

Rude.

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How can you say "I want her to be happy with who she is.", when this entire thread is about you wishing she was a blonde, and taking measures to try to make it so?

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely because of the hair thing. Mom should be the LAST one you expect to hear "you don't look good enough because..." from. So yes. Because of the hair thing..

OP only eats 500 calories per day. My guess is that will do far more damage than wanting to highlight her daughter's hair.

Cruel and unrelated. I am not starving my daughter and would never think of allowing her to even diet.

You will not need to starve your daughter, she will do it herself and you will not be able to "disallow" it. You are teaching your daughter that loving her is not enough to make you want to keep living, because starving yourself is dying. It's all part of a package, you can't separate your profound self-hate from the fact that you are already looking at your daughter as flawed.

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I don't see her as flawed at all. I just dont want her to feel about herself what I feel about myself, I guess, and I dont want her to feel the pain of being perceived as less than perfect by others. I want to shield her from all of that, and I want her to love herself because she really is wonderful.

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I'm sure people have said it, but this isn't normal, OP. If this cockamamie idea sounds like a good idea for SOP, seek help for what are undoubtedly going to be difficult body image issues for you before your daughter starts to realize what a turd you think she is. This is awful.

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How many times do I have to say I don't think she is a turd????

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I dont want her to feel the pain of being perceived as less than perfect by others

Well, since no one is perfect, and no one is perceived as perfect by others, your goal is ludicrous.

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I could swear this post was also written last year or the year before. In fact, before I looked at the date posted I was wondering why someone had resurrected the thread

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Anonymous wrote:I could swear this post was also written last year or the year before. In fact, before I looked at the date posted I was wondering why someone had resurrected the thread

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:I could swear this post was also written last year or the year before. In fact, before I looked at the date posted I was wondering why someone had resurrected the thread

Yes! I thought so too.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand you people. It is ok to cut off foreskin (for non religious reasons) and forcibly puncture infant's ears, but a little lemon juice in their hair means you are not happy with how they look?

I think there is a big difference with doing thing for cultural and religious reasons vs. doing it because you think your child is not pretty enough with her brown hair.

PP said for non-religious reasons. Plenty of people circumcise so DS can look like daddy.

So does the American Academy of Pediatricans also recommend that you put lemon juice in a child's hair to make them look more Aryan?

Please read precisely. AAP does not recommend routine circumcision for all newborn boys. They only say the health benefits, in their view, are great enough to warrant insurance coverage. (NB that the health benefits of circumcision are questionable enough for European countries to advocate against its routine performance.)

Obviously, highlighting hair does not have any health benefits. However, in circumcision debates (not looking to start one here), proponents often say they did it because daddy was circumcised, too. Those people's actions then are comparable to OP's.

You anti-circ people are like a dog with a damn bone, aren't you? LET. IT. GO. Not every thread has to turn into a debate on this topic.

No. As long as children are needlessly mutilated, I will speak up about it when the topic arises (I was not the PP who first brought it up). No matter how much you yell.

I circumcised my child and would do it again if I had a boy. Yell away. . .you won't change my mind. It's a personal choice, and one that is perfectly medically acceptable. I think I'll take the advice of my doctor over some sanctimonious random person on the internet offering me asinine unsolicited advice.

Sure, well in that case ask your doctor again next time. Ask explicitly if they recommend you do it. It's unlikely that he or she will say yes unequivocally and that's because there is no medical justification for it. No medical body in the entire WORLD recommends it. Sure there might be some old fashioned idiot doctors but ask them so show you the research that says that this is a good idea and you might start to realize that you have in fact cut off a healthy and useful part of your son's penis and that one day both you and he will regret it. Unfortunately he'll never have any say in this.

Feel better now? Loser.

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OP, why don't you stuff a couple marbles up your nose, you know the ones that fell out of your head. Then use the lemon on your one year old. Be sure you are buying organic because they contain higher acid concentration!

You are really pathetic OP!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand you people. It is ok to cut off foreskin (for non religious reasons) and forcibly puncture infant's ears, but a little lemon juice in their hair means you are not happy with how they look?

I think there is a big difference with doing thing for cultural and religious reasons vs. doing it because you think your child is not pretty enough with her brown hair.

PP said for non-religious reasons. Plenty of people circumcise so DS can look like daddy.

So does the American Academy of Pediatricans also recommend that you put lemon juice in a child's hair to make them look more Aryan?

Please read precisely. AAP does not recommend routine circumcision for all newborn boys. They only say the health benefits, in their view, are great enough to warrant insurance coverage. (NB that the health benefits of circumcision are questionable enough for European countries to advocate against its routine performance.)

Obviously, highlighting hair does not have any health benefits. However, in circumcision debates (not looking to start one here), proponents often say they did it because daddy was circumcised, too. Those people's actions then are comparable to OP's.

You anti-circ people are like a dog with a damn bone, aren't you? LET. IT. GO. Not every thread has to turn into a debate on this topic.

No. As long as children are needlessly mutilated, I will speak up about it when the topic arises (I was not the PP who first brought it up). No matter how much you yell.

I circumcised my child and would do it again if I had a boy. Yell away. . .you won't change my mind. It's a personal choice, and one that is perfectly medically acceptable. I think I'll take the advice of my doctor over some sanctimonious random person on the internet offering me asinine unsolicited advice.

Sure, well in that case ask your doctor again next time. Ask explicitly if they recommend you do it. It's unlikely that he or she will say yes unequivocally and that's because there is no medical justification for it. No medical body in the entire WORLD recommends it. Sure there might be some old fashioned idiot doctors but ask them so show you the research that says that this is a good idea and you might start to realize that you have in fact cut off a healthy and useful part of your son's penis and that one day both you and he will regret it. Unfortunately he'll never have any say in this.

Feel better now? Loser.

Just FYI, you are arguing with (at least) two different posters here. The last PP is not the one you (the angry circer) previously responded to.