Ginger & worried about the future.

My DM and her youngest brother both had the same colouring as your DD when they were small children, but both had auburn hair by the time they went to senior school at 11. Now at 61, my DM is olive skinned with rich brown hair, with a hint of red in the right light (and a few streaks of grey!). Neither of them were bullied for their colouring - although they were teased by their other siblings!

My DNephew is nearly 10 and is very pale and freckly with really orange hair. He's a popular, outgoing kid and another example of someone with ginger hair who hasn't been bullied. I wouldn't worry about it too much OP, if she's going to be bullied then the bullies will always come up with something to pick on and if it's not her hair, it'll be something else. All you can do is build her up and encourage her to talk to you if any bullying does start.

I don't think it's a thing at school anymore. I've only heard the very odd negative comment about ginger hair from adults.
My niece has beautiful curly auburn hair, it's really stunning. I can't imagine she'll be bullied for it.

Hi Op red hair whether strawberry blonde or whatever shade of ginger your baby daughter has, whether it changes a shade of hair colour or not.
Teach your daughter to have good self esteem/ cofindence in herself such as positive praise/reinforcements, so she is less likely to allow others at school to get her down emotionally, also are there dolls with ginger hair or good story books with a characters with ginger hair/good role models in popular culture with same hair colouring as daughter.
Also if she ever hope not but if she was ever bullied at school there is allways all kinds of martial Arts she could get into,plus learning self defence boost her cofindence its fun and can make friends through doing this activity..

My 11 year old DD has been begging me to let her dye her hair red all year - she has a friend with the most glorious ginger hair and is super-envious. Friend doesn't seem to have any issues other than people constantly saying how lovely it is!

My hair has got lighter over the years and I now have blonde/red hair, a bit darker than proper strawberry blonde. I love it, and it hasn't got one grey and I'm over 50. Don't worry about that stuff, I have heard all about ginger bullying but although a few remarks were made at school, it was more my 'four-eyes' that were commented on, and I seemed to miss the worst of it all. I haven't had anyone comment negatively on my hair for 20 odd years or more, only positive comments.

I would tell her every day how beautiful her hair is. She'll love it by the time she's 20 and looks absolutely stunning!

I'm ginger & had a v v bad time at school (mostly at the hands of one girl, though) - but, I keep being reassured that it is better these days, & if my kids are redheads it's unlikely to be history repeating itself! I get nothing but complements as an adult.

I’m a redhead with a mop of curly auburn hair and apart from being called carrots at school I’ve never had a problem. The only issue I’ve had is getting burnt to shit on holiday altho all my freckles come out. I have to use total sun block.

I hope times have changed but I doubt they have. People havent.

It will depend a lot on her personality too. If she is popular and outgoing she will get less stick. But she might be bullied, yes.

There isn't much you can do about this except raise her with good self-esteem. Maybe she will be fine, maybe not. Just be there for her.

My DP is 32 and a red head, he was never bullied.
My DD is 16 months and a red head, we only ever get compliments about her hair.

I was pale blonde as a baby and child, gradually darkened to dark brown as I aged.

Both my dc the same.

I longed to be ginger (not in UK)

I’m ginger. Very early 40s now so school feels a long way off and it was a bit of a thing when I was at school but not horrifically so. There are upsides though definitely. I’ve never had people struggle to remember who I am. Lots and lots of people have approached me over the years to tell me how beautiful my hair is - way more than abuse (been some of that too - and being shouted at from vans in the street which was pretty horrid as a a teenager). I do remember being sad about a ‘compliment’ as a teenager being told I was the prettiest redhead they’d met. Not another species FFS!
Had a lot of male attention and boyfriends over the years so that’s never been a problem and if anything that has just increased as I’ve got older. You have to watch out for the men who have a thing for redheads though - had to brush a few of them off in pubs and clubs over the years.
I have just started to get a few white hairs at my temples and I’m genuinely gutted. Never dyed my hair ever so not looking forward to that. Sounds like a complete ballache.

I'm a ginge and did not want ginger children especially boys. Luckily ds 1 is blond but still pale and ds 2 is brown and tans easy like his dad.

I have accepted my hair as I've gotten older - all the hairdressers say what a gorgeous colour it is. I'm now 48 with no grey hair. One bonus of being a red head however the pale freckly skin I cannot stand.

That's probably blurry. But trying to show you the shade.

This is my natural hair now.

I was bright ginger and brown eyed as a child. My hair has got darker. Now it's auburn and everyone compliments my hair. People are envious

Red hair is absolutely beautiful.

Karen Gillan.
Julia Roberts
Nicola Roberts
Natasha from atomic kitten.
Julianne more

Do some googling. Red hair is absolutely stunning. I've been called ginger a couple of times. But who cares.

There's always something to be bullied about.

Bullying doesn’t happen as much anymore as people / schools are so much more aware of it. Plus most children are taught to be very tolerant of anyone that looks different to them. Well they are where I live anyway. This is the ‘woke’ generation!

I'm a redhead and I love my hair. I only ever get compliments. In fact it seems to attract a lot of men ... hahaha
I have never had a bad remark about my hair colour - certainly no bullying.

Can you move to Scotland?
I love red hair. But I'd be a bit worried about the fair skin in ever hotter weather - more than about bullying.

My babies were both born with ginger hair, brows and lashes, green eyes, freckles, the whole caboodle.

By around 5 years old one had much darker chestnut hair, the other fair/light brown hair. Both still have significant redhead highlights now they’re older.

These photos show one around age 4 and then at 11. Hair colour def changes as they grow older.

Don’t know there they got the colouring from. I am natural jet black with grey eyes, their father is medium brown with green eyes. But my mother is a redhead.

For what it’s worth, there’s kudos in standing out from the crowd nowadays.

My best friend and her girls have the most amazing red hair.

She was bullied at school but her girls never have been. Hopefully it’s a thing of the past.

I think long, red hair on a girl is stunning. DD had copper reddish hair when she was born but it has gradually turned to a dark blonde/light brown. I wish it had stayed as it was.

I'm ginger and I was bullied at school because of it, but it was only in secondary school and for a brief time. Kids can be cruel though, and if it's not because her hair is red, it could be something (anything) else.
As I've gotten older, I receive more compliments about my hair than I ever have, and have had friends around me try to dye their hair the exact shade mine is without success.
What I mean to say is that she will be fine, she will definitely grow to love how special her hair is, and she should be proud to be ginger! It took me longer than it should have to feel that way :)

I’m ginger. Loads of my family are. Was never bullied or even commented on, but then we’re all pretty feisty, so if anyone had tried when I was little (maybe they did) I doubt they’d have done it twice.

My niece is a gentler soul and we called her out little gingernut, ginge etc from being tiny as a nickname. I was there in her first week of school when a wee boy ran up and shouted “haha, gingernut...” at her. She fixed him with a bemused expression and said, “yeah... what?” He was confused, not the reaction he wanted, said “oh, wanna play?” The two have been firm friends since and are now late teens.

Teach her to love herself and to only care about opinions from people she cares about. Anyone else can do one. If she’s secure it’ll shine through. I love being ginger!