DD 2.5 still has barely any hair! (Pic)

[merchantsdaughter]

Name change as posting pic of my DD. She's 2.5 and still doesn't have enough hair for me to tie in to a pony tail. Even when wet her hair doesn't reach past the hairline on the back of her neck.

I'm so sick of people telling me what a lovely son I have, or met with the question "he or she?" It's incredibly upsetting to me. I don't want other children to tease her for looking like a boy - God knows what that does to such young children's mental health.

Not sure what I'm asking for really, just if anyone has had similar with their daughter??
I thought by 2.5 I'd have something to work with!

Your attitude is so strange! Why is it so terrifying for her to be mistaken for a boy? Nobody really cares.

Both of my children were like this (boy and girl), very fine, blond and curly! Neither of them had a haircut for years. My daughter now has very long very curly hair, she is nearly 12 but it wasn't long enough to tie up until she was probably 5/6. My son still has fine hair but he rocks a surfer cut, he's nearly 7. Quite often they were confused as the opposite sex although I usually dressed them in navy and fairly neutral. Please don't worry about it.

Compared to my GD she has lovely hair. We do joke that ours is one of Boris Johnston’s love children when she wakens in the morning.

Flamingodial

We did. He was bemused. Didn’t know very much about it and gave us the details of a specialist. Small, single doctor rural practice, 1996.

(I suspect he thought we were nuts)

Why would a toddler give a shit about hair length?
Why would they choose to play boy games or girl games?
What does that even mean?
This is completely weird and wrong.
There is nothing wrong with her hair but a lot wrong with your attitude OP. Concentrate on teaching her to be kind, and able to play with whatever and whoever she likes.

I wouldnt worry I was like that barley had any hair at all til around 1.5/2 my parents apparently nicknamed me Gary baldy. Between the ages of 2 and 4 only had tight wispy ringlets, Im now 22 with bumlength thick brown hair it will grow eventually 😂

I teach 3-4 year old children I’m a school nursery. Every year we get at least 2 little girls with short curly baby hair. They are just as adorable as any other child. This year we have had 3. By the time they leave reception they catch up.

Some very rude comments here.
People are allowed to be concerned about what ever they want to be concerned about.
At both swimming and ballet classes there were little girls with very short hair. My DD kept saying the whole was through the lessons “Why is that baby in here”. Both short haired girls were older than DD but she was convinced they were babies because of their hair. So some children definitely notice appearance.

My DD kept saying the whole was through the lessons “Why is that baby in here”

Didn't you give your DD the Death Stare to shut her up?

People are allowed to be concerned about what ever they want to be concerned about

Of course they are. But when their own issues adversely affect their children then it’s a problem.

The Ops need for her child to look and act a particular way to be acceptable is concerning many posters.

My DD kept saying the whole was through the lessons “Why is that baby in here”. Both short haired girls were older than DD but she was convinced they were babies because of their hair. So some children definitely notice appearance

Why didn’t you correct her? Tell her that children of any age can have short hair if they choose?

You sound like one of those parents that stand by while their child insists my child is a boy because of short hair, even though the child herself is saying, no, i’m a girl. Some will even stand there and say no she can’t be a girl because of the short hair. Some older women even stand there with short hair themselves insisting girls have long hair.

Ignorant.