Straightening Child's Hair

[Stardust1901]

What are your view on straightening a child's hair?
I've just seen on my FB someone I know, whose straightened her 3 year old's hair for play school.

It would never occur to me to straighten a child's hair! What do you think?

*JohnyMcgrath
That's so exactly what I thought too at the start of this thread- hair damage and other people's opinions about dolling up our daughters be damned. It's not about that, it's about getting a potentially lethal weapon near a v your child's face!!

Can't understand why so many don't get it.

I meant "young" child - sorry

I run the straighteners over my 5 year old daughters hair each morning-it literally is to tame the wild hair, takes 1minute and is the difference between tidy and unruly hair.

She is careful, I am careful, I use the best quality tool that only takes one swipe through. If I didn't she would look like it hadn't even been brushed, which is at odds with her otherwise smart school uniform/look.

Absolutely fine if it's a bit of fun to do with parent / babysitter but really not ok imho if it's to do with having to look 'pretty' to go out . It would be awful to think that a 3 year old would be worried about appearance

I remember having rags twisted into my hair to sleep in. Mind it was the 70s/early 80s but surely that's still parents creating. As I recall they were difficult to sleep in but mum loved the curls next day, which did make me happy. I guess it's always been done in one form or another.

"I think it's none of anyone's business. Seriously why do people take time out of their days to actual make a post on a forum about something so bloody unimportant hmm"

Sorry, but the irony of this comment made me

Flumpernickel, I think that this poster meant how could anyone be bothered to actually make a thread about something so unimportant, as opposed to a post, making it not so ironic iyswum

It depends. Blowdrying it would probably be ok, but I don't think it's a good idea to use straightening irons on a potentially fidgety 3 year old. The last thing you'd want to do is burn them.