Muslim women covering their hair indoors at home -anyone tell me?

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I was watching tele with my young niece,specifically gogglebox and nadia husseins cooking programme.
We saw Nadia's little girl without her hair covered, tho her mums was, and both of the sisters on gogglebox had headscarves on.
So, what's the score there, please?
Is it an age/puberty thing that triggers it?
And do Nadia, etc. always wear head covers even if they're home alone with just their families? Or are they covering cos the TV cameras are there?
I told niece that I really don't know, but that I know someone who does
Thanks.

It'll be because the cameras are there. At home we just take off our headscarves as soon as we go through the door!

It is puberty usually girls startcovering their hair. The reason they have their heads covered at home is because the public can seethem. I imagine in private they take off their scarves

See them on TV is what I meant to say.

Fair enough both, and thanks.
The puberty thing (this is my question rather than dn's but I want to cover all bases, as it were..)
So if a child starts having a period at, say, 10, and starts to develop, will that trigger head covering?

I mean, head covering when they're out and about.

I honestly have no idea I think it might be an indvidual thing the few muslim women I know only 1 covers her hair full time the others just do it during religious festivals like ramadan

My mum's friend is a muslim and lives a few doors down from her. I went to drop over a parcel and she didn't have her headscarf on at home, was shocked when she answered the door as I'd never seen her without the scarf!
Her preteen daughter's don't wear them because they think it's faff now, but did when they were younger because they wanted to be like mum. Muslim women use a sugar scrub to remove body hair too, don't know if this is everyone but her daughter's gave it a go and said absolutely never again I really think it is personal preference!

Right, thanks. I'll go along with individual choice then, rather than being proscribed by religion.
Whew! I guess I'm going to be asking all sorts of random questions here while I'm part-parenting this girl for the next few weeks.

Oh, and I'm not going to tell her about the sugar scrub thing.

A muslim friend of mine only wears her head covered at home if her son is there or other male family members apart from her husband.

Well if you wear a headscarf outside for religious reasons then you’re obviously going to wear it inside if you’ve got tv cameras filming you.

bastardkitty:Why would she need to cover her hair at home in front of her son ?

I think it's because she's quite devout. Obviously, with any religion, individuals decide where to draw their own lines. She just told me she covers at home if her son or any male other than her husband is there.

Her son is an adult BTW!

@ kitty

her son even, you say?

Okay, diffrent strokes for diffrent folks...

Dn is only in the UK for a few weeks while her mum works here. Theylive in the US in an area that has a high Chinese community but no muslims. Hence the questions.

Even the most devout of mothers don’t need to cover their hair in front of their sons!

My muslim neighbours don't wear them in the house, (and won't put one on if they see it's just me at the door) ,but sometimes have to in the back garden in case my husband sees them. Their pre-pubescent girls don't wear them yet.

Where I live lots of girls start covering their hair at the start of Yr 6 even if they haven't started their periods. This way, when they do start their periods, it isn't obvious to all and sundry! Although wouldn't work if you started your periods really young.

I just wanted to weigh in on the puberty aspect. I think the idea is that girls start covering their hair when their periods start. However I think a lot of girls start wearing a head scarf when they start high school. Which for most people is before their periods start. I think the reason for this is purely because otherwise it's like making an announcement "I got my first period everyone!!". Nobody wants that kind of attention!

@Polly2345 got there first. I am very slow at typing :)

I've known a lot of muslim ladies, as I had a muslim flatmate and and it tends to vary between them but generally they start wearing it when they start secondary school. Some obviously don't wear one at all, it's very much a personal choice. One of the girls would wear it in public but if she was with family at a party for example she wouldn't. One didn't wear one in public but would wear one with family. It also depends on how liberal their parents are, but it's mostly just personal choice

I believe that the quaran says that people of that faith should be modestly dressed (Orthodox Jews too). I believe that it can be up to interpretation depending on your mosque or family. Where I live a lot of the men and boys also follow this and don’t wear t shirts or shorts outside the home.

Good on your niece for taking an interest in other people’s culture and belief as it helps build a society of tolerance.

My niece takes hers off at home.

There are a few girls at my sons primary who wear head coverings who are way below the age of puberty. There’s one in my sons year and he’s in year 2, she’s been wearing it since she started. I saw a lady carrying a new born baby with a little pink hijab on too.

I have zero issues with women (and that includes young women) wearing them if that’s their choice but I do feel a bit uncomfortable that such little girls are deemed immodest without one.

The 'rule' in Iran, where headscarves are sadly compulsory, is that girls have to start wearing them in public at 9! According to my Iranian friend,girls have to start fasting aged 9 while boys don't have to start until much later.