Parents with daughters with long hair...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I let my 7 yo brush and style hers most mornings, sometimes I step in to help or re-do. I also braid it for her after a shower: if she sleeps in braids it's pretty manageable the next day.

I had my parents french braid mine through high school, because I never learned to french braid my own (can do others). When I moved out I switched to other styles, and eventually got it cut.

Omg, this is so embarrassing. Please never tell anyone this ever again.

Different poster, but why? There's no shame in this. Cut it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I let my 7 yo brush and style hers most mornings, sometimes I step in to help or re-do. I also braid it for her after a shower: if she sleeps in braids it's pretty manageable the next day.

I had my parents french braid mine through high school, because I never learned to french braid my own (can do others). When I moved out I switched to other styles, and eventually got it cut.

Omg, this is so embarrassing. Please never tell anyone this ever again.

Different poster, but why? There's no shame in this. Cut it out.

DP Agree. It's better than my mother who refused to let me have long hair because she didn't want to take care of it.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was so sweet to hear about the poster who had her hair braided by her parents in HS! I love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing more pathetic than a poor little girl with long stringy hair she can’t handle.

except a girl with a crappy boy haircut.

What is a boy haircut?

You don’t know what a boy haircut is?

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old is slowly transitioning to doing her own. She can wash and brush it herself. She occasionally practices her own ponytail. However I still style it most days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter has fine, wavy, fly away hair that tangles easily. In my experience, it is much easier to manage when it is long - just past the shoulders or so.
1. Hair tangles from the ends. At this length, I can grab a hunk with one hand and brush with the other, making it a less painful. Impossible to do this with a chin length bob.
2. At this length it’s easy to do a quick braid, which keeps hair untangled.
3. I’ve always found women who cluck and fuss about the hair of little girls who do not belong to them to be across the board unpleasant.

+1 on all of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing more pathetic than a poor little girl with long stringy hair she can’t handle.

I try. I send it braided or pulled back in the morning and somehow she looks like the girl from the Ring by lunchtime...

[Anonymous]

My sister was a hair whiz at age 5, she also had very thick auburn hair that simply never tangled. She was french braiding her own hair besides wielding a curling iron in her early ES grades. I was--am--basically hair incompetent. Hairbrushes still fly out of my hands, and styling?--forget it. I have fine hair that snarls easily and was bad at brushing when I didn't have school, until I was maybe middle school. I remember one summer--maybe I was 10??--when my mom took me to get it cut (they called it a pixie) because I'd let it get tangled and matted. I remember standing in the yard feeling the wind in my hair and feeling all tragic about the looming haircut. My mom washed my hair for years. Face forward at the kitchen sink with a washcloth covering my eyes, absolutely hated that. Didn't learn until college you can finger-comb your hair with the conditioner in the shower to keep the tangles down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing more pathetic than a poor little girl with long stringy hair she can’t handle.

I try. I send it braided or pulled back in the morning and somehow she looks like the girl from the Ring by lunchtime...

I have two like this and one whose hair always stays perfectly neat. My 4 year old's preschool teachers have taken to re-doing her hair mid-day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing more pathetic than a poor little girl with long stringy hair she can’t handle.

except a girl with a crappy boy haircut.

What is a boy haircut?

You don’t know what a boy haircut is?

You mean a pixie like Twiggy? You sound like you are from the 50s.

[Anonymous]

I highly recommend the Crave Glide hairbrush. It was a game-changer for my kid. With that brush she can get almost all tangles out herself. When that brush gets lost and we have to use the bad hairbrush it is awful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I let my 7 yo brush and style hers most mornings, sometimes I step in to help or re-do. I also braid it for her after a shower: if she sleeps in braids it's pretty manageable the next day.

I had my parents french braid mine through high school, because I never learned to french braid my own (can do others). When I moved out I switched to other styles, and eventually got it cut.

Omg, this is so embarrassing. Please never tell anyone this ever again.

Different poster, but why? There's no shame in this. Cut it out.

DP Agree. It's better than my mother who refused to let me have long hair because she didn't want to take care of it.

+1 My mother was like this too, a quite lazy SAHM. As long as DD wants to have really long hair, I will help her with it. Fortunately at age 8 she can mostly do it herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I let my 7 yo brush and style hers most mornings, sometimes I step in to help or re-do. I also braid it for her after a shower: if she sleeps in braids it's pretty manageable the next day.

I had my parents french braid mine through high school, because I never learned to french braid my own (can do others). When I moved out I switched to other styles, and eventually got it cut.

Omg, this is so embarrassing. Please never tell anyone this ever again.

Different poster, but why? There's no shame in this. Cut it out.

DP Agree. It's better than my mother who refused to let me have long hair because she didn't want to take care of it.

Yep. I had a cousin who used to cry because her mom would get her hair chopped off monthly. Pretty sure she's never gotten over it. Her mom didn't know how to take care of hair. She was a baby boomer and had short hair her entire life and couldn't understand why her 1980 daughter didn't want a boy cut.


+1 My mother was like this too, a quite lazy SAHM. As long as DD wants to have really long hair, I will help her with it. Fortunately at age 8 she can mostly do it herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I let my 7 yo brush and style hers most mornings, sometimes I step in to help or re-do. I also braid it for her after a shower: if she sleeps in braids it's pretty manageable the next day.

I had my parents french braid mine through high school, because I never learned to french braid my own (can do others). When I moved out I switched to other styles, and eventually got it cut.

Omg, this is so embarrassing. Please never tell anyone this ever again.

Different poster, but why? There's no shame in this. Cut it out.

DP Agree. It's better than my mother who refused to let me have long hair because she didn't want to take care of it.

+1 My mother was like this too, a quite lazy SAHM. As long as DD wants to have really long hair, I will help her with it. Fortunately at age 8 she can mostly do it herself.

Yep. I had a cousin who used to cry because her mom would get her hair chopped off monthly. Pretty sure she's never gotten over it. Her mom didn't know how to take care of hair. She was a baby boomer and had short hair her entire life and couldn't understand why her 1980 daughter didn't want a boy cut.

[Anonymous]

Bernice ('s mom) Bobs Her Hair ??