Why do you let your daughter have long scraggly hair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the Justin Beiber thing started with Zac Efron. And how about Robert Pattinson's hair? Now that is scraggly and dirty!

Give me scruffy-dirty-hot ANY day over coiffed-sprayed-effeminate.

Is this your excuse for not brushing your daughter's hair too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There are alot of little girls out there with hair that is too long...no body and unhealthy looking in general. Is it too much to ask that people braid or put their daughters hair up in a ponytail?

Yes, it IS too much to ask, if you are asking me to braid my daughter's hair to please YOU. MYOB!!

Really??? I suppose you dont bathe your child either. It takes about 2 minutes to braid my daughter's hair. No I am not involved in pageants but I do think that taking pride in one's appearance is an important value to teach and as a parent you need to lead by example. Maybe if so many of you were not of geriatric age or have spit out too many kids you could find the time for your daughters.

Pride goeth before a fall. Theologian CS Lewis called pride "the great sin" -- the root of almost every other transgression. Pride, he wrote, "has been the chief cause of misery ... since the world began". Pride is also one of the seven deadlies. Didn't you see that Brad Pitt movie? Do you want all these scraggly DDs to instead end up with a phone glued to their hand and a bottle of pills in the other? LOL. *Love* your work on Little Miss Perfect, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the Justin Beiber thing started with Zac Efron. And how about Robert Pattinson's hair? Now that is scraggly and dirty!

Give me scruffy-dirty-hot ANY day over coiffed-sprayed-effeminate.

Is this your excuse for not brushing your daughter's hair too?

Ooh! Where's the poster who likes to accuse everyone of being a pedophile??

As for my daughter, after seeing YOUR kids with dried chocolate ice cream smears all over their faces, I thought it would be ok to leave her hair snarly.

[Anonymous]

I brush my DD's hair every morning before school. I often put it up or in braids and when this beautiful child gets off the bus she is one hot mess. Honest to God this girl looks like she fell out of a Walmart and nothing like the J. Crew catalog child I sent to school.

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Frickin' hilarious stuff...thanks Ladies!

Just picked up three 4-year old boys (only 1 was mine!) from summer camp all covered in mud...up and down their legs. We stopped at the grocery store on the way home and got nothing but smiles. Man--men start having it easy early on.

As a mom to only boys--I'll sit this debate out.

[Anonymous]

I brush my DD's hair every morning before school. I often put it up or in braids and when this beautiful child gets off the bus she is one hot mess. Honest to God this girl looks like she fell out of a Walmart and nothing like the J. Crew catalog child I sent to school.

My little girl too but at least we make the effort!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chico's exec: Help! We're losing the Pageant Mom demographic!

LOL WHAT?!?!? Have you not seen those pageant moms? They'd be lucky to wear Chico's on their best day, God love 'em. I always suspect that the DD featured on the pageant shows is, in actuality, the second pageant DD the Pageant Mom has produced....the first having been consumed by the mom one day when a pageant awards ceremony ran long and she couldnt get to her ginormous tupperware snack bin full of Moon Pies and Little Debbie snack cakes back in the hotel room.

[Anonymous]

OP,

You rock! I totally agree. I blame lazy parents who take no pride in their kids.

Oh - and I'm no pageant mom either. I simply think that good grooming builds good habits.

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Anonymous wrote:i am so glad i have a BOY! he's not yet 3, but i don't think i've ever brushed his hair a day in his life (maybe once before a picture?). he has really thick hair, but there's no way he'd sit for a brushing, and it would just be a mess minutes later anyway. i'm imagining that little girls are the same way, right?

i'm one of those people that thinks the ragamuffin kids are the cutest. i get a kick out of the kid who obviously dressed herself b/c nothing matches. and the stringier the hair, the better!! those j. crew-cut-outs make me sad b/c they never look like they are having fun.

cheers to the straggly kids!

Cheers to your future Emo!

[Anonymous]

And there it is!! The why do you care/get a life poster!

Ah, and there YOU are! The poster who calls out the "why do you care?" poster. It's not original when you do it on every thread!

[Anonymous]

OP is just being silly. She's the same poster that originated the "Wake up fat women!" thread in health and beauty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is just being silly. She's the same poster that originated the "Wake up fat women!" thread in health and beauty.

Hey, not she's not, that's me!

[Anonymous]

Sorry gang but I'm with OP. I don't think she's talking about normal "gets-messy-as-the-day-goes on" looks but those ones that scream "no one has touched my head with a brush all day" looks. Give your kid a ponytail, headband, whatever. It isn't that hard. Trim the ends so they aren't wispy and scraggly. I have 3 girls and they don't go out without washing face and brushing teeth so why skip another self-care step? I know some mommas are too busy primping themselves to waste time grooming their kids though and that's another topic entirely.

[Anonymous]

NP here. You can't win on DCUM.

If you dress your kids up and fix their hair, they're too perfectly clad and coiffed to enjoy themselves and you're a horrible overbearing helicopter parent.

If your kid has messy hair and their clothes get dirty or don't match just so, you're negligent and lazy and you don't pay enough attention to personal care.

Either way, you suck and you lose.

I'm sure half of you would think that I'm ridiculous and prissy because my daughter wears dresses all the time and half of you think I'm a gross slacker because sometimes her hair gets really tangled. Get a grip on both sides.

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Anonymous wrote:

You may not be trashy on the outside, but you are nothing but filth on the inside.

Says the woman in her ugly Chico's frock with a bi level hairstyle.

Says the guy who doesn't know what Chico's is but knows ugly when he sees it.

I can honestly say I have never heard a man use the term "filth" before. Has your wife with the bi-level haircut beat you into full emasculation?

It was nicer to say than shit. But have it your way.