To wish people wouldn't put headbands on babies?

[SusuwatariToes]

I hate wearing headbands. I last about an hour before the pressure behind my ears really gets to me.

Once they are old enough to figure out how, they will pull them off at every opportunity. They clearly don't like to wear them.

I know people think they are cute but babies are already cute! Little boys aren't put through this torture. AIBU?

theodorakisses, do you seriously think that because a person thinks a headband on a baby is unnecessary and pointless, they're thoroughly unmoved by abuse and neglect? You seriously think we only have one thought at a time and it obviates the need for other thought?

You are accusing everybody of feeling superior whilst claiming you only ever think of things outside the trivial? Really?

I didn't object to ridiculous or uncomfortable, I do object to chavvy. Snobby and ignorant.

People can have different opinions and not be sneery to others though.

I couldnt give a shiny shit what other think about how my dc are dressed.

I do care that people though out words like chav as an insult for those choices.

I said I find denim weird, that is trivial. Snidely thread indeed. Enjoy your headband free Saturday

Hairbands on bald babies do look funny imo but some mums just love their little girls to look pretty from the start and enjoy dressing them up, my DD was bald for ages and people always mistook her for a boy so she had an extensive hat collection so that was my vice

I don't particularly like the word chav either and of course people will always be ridiculous and insulting because people is people but condemning anybody who is mildly opposed to pointless headbands ignorant or incapable of compassion for the truly terrible is equally silly.

DD looked gorgeous in her lacy flowery headband for her uncles wedding.

YANBU to have your own opinions though. Even if they are wrong.

You know sometimes someone starts a post, goes off for a while, comes back to read the responses and thinks WTF how did that happen!! That's Susu right now.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2115077/Heelarius-high-heels-for-babies-go-on-sale.html

anyone remember these

two words easter egg,

they look bloody awful.

And to confuse matters very slightly, my SIL is a chav. Her word. She has a t-shirt which says 'chav and proud'. She wears big gold-hooped earrings and clown necklaces. She likes the label. Her bald babies have both worn garters on their heads. She always says she wants them to look chav like her. We used to argue the point a lot. She said she was reclaiming the term and it was about her identity, I said it was pejorative and is considered an insult by the majority. But she likes the term, she likes the headbands and she thinks the one indicates the other. In a positive way.

Is chav a massive insult then? My two DSs wear football tops when not playing football and I think they look really chavvy.

its not on to call someone poor chavvy, unemployed underclass on mn its against the rules [ wink]

Well its certainly being used as an insult here isnt it?

Look at the poor little chavvy babies in head bands.

Oh right. Thanks MrsB. i hadn't really thought about it like that before. just as a term like 'snobby'. I will stop calling my DSs chavvy from now on.

but I see it more like calling someone chinese or gay, or snob its just a label.

I am a snob it doesnt offend me, nothing wrong with wanting to better yourself.

some people dont like to be labeled something they see as a negative.

They are wrong, so very very wrong! YANBU

I'm sorry if people feel upset by other people not liking headbands on babies. I suppose because they look as if the parents are doing it to appease the judging masses anyway (sorry my baby is bald, she's a girl, I'm making an effort to make her look more attractive) then to let people know this is not required is fair enough...perhaps.

I don't want people to put their child in an uncomfortable thing just so that I, or other people, will think better of them. It's not necessary. I would rather see your lovely, baldy little girl without any sort of milinary adornment.

I mean hats are fine when it's hot/cold/whatever, but a headband is just so pointless.

And if people use them because they themselves like them, then that's fine too. But don't do it to please other people.

This is what springs to mind as soon as anyone says Chav. And i bet that lot cost a fortune.

If you don't like them then that's fine. Perfectly reasonable. Not everyone likes everything

It's the

YADNBU they are my no. 1 pet hate!!!!!

posts which make people look deeply unintelligent a little bit silly, imvho.

I wonder if many people have bought the bows that you glue to your babies head, how do you get them off!

Hate them. They look awful.
My little girls will never be put through that.

It's ok not to like babies in heaadbands.

It's not ok to call them chavvy.

Glueing anything to your baby is deserving of massive judgment however

On the review caterpillar someone put they had left it on for 4 days and it didn't come off.