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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I get that you are worried about the cost, and these days lord knows you should be. But I desperately wanted a perm at that age (the 80s!) and my mother wouldn't let me get one and I'm still mad about it, lol. 
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I think by 13 or 14 it's appropriate for girls to become interested in things like highlights. Just figure out how it can be done more affordably and have a talk about setting a yearly budget for it. I wouldn't take a teenager to the expensive stylist who does my highlights, but I might let her go to Hair Cuttery a couple of times per year. [/quote]

You should be grateful to your mother for protecting your health and her wallet (to buy you other things, perhaps). No minor is entitled to a hair treatment, and those of the 80s were much more toxic than they are today. Are you also the sort of person who claims that Homecoming is significant event in a teen's life and you absolutely want your daughter attending it? A poster wrote that the other day on DCUM.

[b]Really, are these the ridiculous things adults resent their parents for? What about actual abuse? If you're going to come back and pretend you're not that mad about it, then you shouldn't have joked about it in the first place. Some of us had actual problems with our parents.[/b] [/quote]

Pp here.

You should stop running your mouth. I suffered horrible abuse and neglect for years. My mother never once “protected my health.” Quite the opposite. She wouldn’t let me get my hair done because she was afraid I’d be prettier than she was and steal her boyfriend. That paranoia started when I was 11. And caused her to get violent often. So take your assumptions, desperate need to type away at people on the internet, and inclination to derail OP’s thread with this BS elsewhere.[/quote]

NP.  First I am so sorry.   I am sure your mother’s awful behavior was difficult to live with and harder to put behind you as an adult.

But I think your story goes to the PP’s point.  Saying “no” to your teen’s highlights will not lead to the teen having a bad relationship with you when she is an adult.  Your problem was a jealous insecure mother and you are rightly upset about that.  The hair has really nothing to do with it.  [/quote]

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