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[quote=Anonymous]I mean, on the one hand, as a parent I can understand wanting to prevent your kid from being mocked.

HOWEVER, I do not think the answer to potential mockery from other children is to quickly make sure your child conforms to whatever superficial cultural assumption those other kids have (or their parents!--Jesus, thinking about eyebrow shape for a three year old!)! I like the idea of the "Fear the Brow" shirt, actually....:) But I don't think preschoolers are thinking about other people's eyebrows at all, so why bring it up or even think about it. I can't imagine being like OP and saying this is all that one would notice about a little girl or boy!!! OP, seriously! I don't even know what to say.

As a kid gets older, I am not sure how parents should handle stuff like this. I had a big unibrow and my parents did and said nothing. I believe a friend's mother plucked my eyebrows in middleschool as part of a general make-over play activity when I was over at her house that involved make-up, etc.  Now that I think back on it it seems nuts that she was plucking the eyebrows of someone else's kid. Or maybe I had tried to do it myself and she was just evening it out? ANYWAY, my point is, my parents neither said nor did anything and I figured it out myself. My parents rarely commented on my appearance except to sometimes say I looked nice or express amusement about some crazy style I was wearing.

So...eyebrows...I think a better thing might be, as a parent, to talk about this stuff openly. Don't just assume your kid would want to look a certain way. Think about Frida Kahlo. I would try to expose my kids to many different kinds of beauty and talk about the arbitrariness of many kinds of social conventions and leave it at that. They'll know where to find the tweezers if and when they ever want to take action.[/quote]

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