Why do you let your daughter have long scraggly hair?

[Anonymous]

As an homage to DCUM, I'm going to stop brushing my DD's hair, AND I'm going to start calling her "little gal" from now on.

[Anonymous]

This is the greatest post ever! I couldn't stop laughing!! We live in an area that not just the girls have crazy long and messy hair, but the boys do too!! My husband makes more of joke out it than I do. My husband can't stand seeing other kids with snot running down their face, or dirty clothes at a party. Our daughter also has rowdy curly hair, and we too have the same experience: we make it nice in the morning for school, and she comes home with sweaty sticky hair matted to her face. Kids are kids. Not because we don't love them. This is so funny!

Ya'll need to be nice to each other. No bashing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an homage to DCUM, I'm going to stop brushing my DD's hair, AND I'm going to start calling her "little gal" from now on.

I'll let you borrow my child's rhinestone bikini.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finally some boy bashing. I hate Justin Beiber for what he is doing to boys hairstyles. I am a pretty young mom but I feel old (not like chico's old) every time I see that kid on tv or the web and I yell out loud "get a haircut"

My son can do whatever he wants with his hair as long as he pulls his pants up.

[Anonymous]

OP *WISHES* her kid would get into pageants! Is OP a pageant reject also? Ew.

I don't think I would start something you can't finish, OP. This is clearly about your own insecurities. Maybe you wish your kid had gorgeous instead of *plain* hair. Sorry for you.

[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.

So, promoting vanity is an important value...?

[Anonymous]

She has curly, scraggly, never-cut, birth-wig hair because (i) there's nothing else to be done with it, it's so fine that unless I shaved her head there'd be no controlling it (ii) her (now dead) father would have wanted it to be long, (iii) because it suits her and (iv) because I can't afford to employ a "hair nanny" to follow her around all day, every day, with a comb and brush.

Now since OP seems to have time on her hands, seems like she'd be better served by volunteering her pro bono hair nany services.

Making a difference, one messy head at a time . . .

[Anonymous]

Cut those girls some slack. I mean think about what DC weather does to hair. Even on myself, my long hair is FABULOUS in the winter, but total birds nest for the summer.

[Anonymous]

"Hair nanny!" I love it. Can *I* have a hair nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OP *WISHES* her kid would get into pageants! Is OP a pageant reject also? Ew.

I don't think I would start something you can't finish, OP. This is clearly about your own insecurities. Maybe you wish your kid had gorgeous instead of *plain* hair. Sorry for you.

What does brushing your kids hair have to do with pageants? I don't know PP but it sounds like you might be projecting some of your own insecurities onto the OP. Or maybe the Chico's comments earlier in the thread really got to you. Or maybe the fact that you are likely 42 with a 3 year old and know your old ass can't keep up with your kid so she looks like a sloppy mess got to you. Either way I don't really care. You just seem like a mean spirited person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

OP *WISHES* her kid would get into pageants! Is OP a pageant reject also? Ew.

I don't think I would start something you can't finish, OP. This is clearly about your own insecurities. Maybe you wish your kid had gorgeous instead of *plain* hair. Sorry for you.

What does brushing your kids hair have to do with pageants? I don't know PP but it sounds like you might be projecting some of your own insecurities onto the OP. Or maybe the Chico's comments earlier in the thread really got to you. Or maybe the fact that you are likely 42 with a 3 year old and know your old ass can't keep up with your kid so she looks like a sloppy mess got to you. Either way I don't really care. You just seem like a mean spirited person.

You seem kind-spirited and delightful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

OP *WISHES* her kid would get into pageants! Is OP a pageant reject also? Ew.

I don't think I would start something you can't finish, OP. This is clearly about your own insecurities. Maybe you wish your kid had gorgeous instead of *plain* hair. Sorry for you.

What does brushing your kids hair have to do with pageants? I don't know PP but it sounds like you might be projecting some of your own insecurities onto the OP. Or maybe the Chico's comments earlier in the thread really got to you. Or maybe the fact that you are likely 42 with a 3 year old and know your old ass can't keep up with your kid so she looks like a sloppy mess got to you. Either way I don't really care. You just seem like a mean spirited person.

You seem kind-spirited and delightful!

Ok, sorry to hijack the thread, since I know we're talking about the serious business of unkempt hair, but I read this and just had to say WTF? Is being "older" with a young child something to be ashamed of according to you? Sounds like it, and I take offense because I am 41 with a 3.5-year old and keep up with her just as well or better than my younger peers. What a ridiculous statement to make. And on the hair issue, combing a girl's hair and putting it in ponytails or barrettes doesn't exactly take physical stamina, so not sure where the age factor comes into play here.

[Anonymous]

Ok, sorry to hijack the thread, since I know we're talking about the serious business of unkempt hair, but I read this and just had to say WTF? Is being "older" with a young child something to be ashamed of according to you? Sounds like it, and I take offense because I am 41 with a 3.5-year old and keep up with her just as well or better than my younger peers. What a ridiculous statement to make. And on the hair issue, combing a girl's hair and putting it in ponytails or barrettes doesn't exactly take physical stamina, so not sure where the age factor comes into play here.

Maybe the old moms have arthritis in their hands

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

OP *WISHES* her kid would get into pageants! Is OP a pageant reject also? Ew.

I don't think I would start something you can't finish, OP. This is clearly about your own insecurities. Maybe you wish your kid had gorgeous instead of *plain* hair. Sorry for you.

What does brushing your kids hair have to do with pageants? I don't know PP but it sounds like you might be projecting some of your own insecurities onto the OP. Or maybe the Chico's comments earlier in the thread really got to you. Or maybe the fact that you are likely 42 with a 3 year old and know your old ass can't keep up with your kid so she looks like a sloppy mess got to you. Either way I don't really care. You just seem like a mean spirited person.

You seem kind-spirited and delightful!

Ok, sorry to hijack the thread, since I know we're talking about the serious business of unkempt hair, but I read this and just had to say WTF? Is being "older" with a young child something to be ashamed of according to you? Sounds like it, and I take offense because I am 41 with a 3.5-year old and keep up with her just as well or better than my younger peers. What a ridiculous statement to make. And on the hair issue, combing a girl's hair and putting it in ponytails or barrettes doesn't exactly take physical stamina, so not sure where the age factor comes into play here.

Wow Grandma... You know how to use a computer? I am impressed. Take your old ass to the VFW and play some Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an homage to DCUM, I'm going to stop brushing my DD's hair, AND I'm going to start calling her "little gal" from now on.

I'll let you borrow my child's rhinestone bikini.

Watch out, we may be raising "trashy" girls who one day will let their bra straps show, or go out with wet hair on their way to their office jobs. EEEK. Or go out with unpainted toe nails! THE HORROR.