For thinking a 2 year old should not have her hair chemically stratained?

[milliec]

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That is just

My step neice's daughter, who i see about once a year, had completely straight blonde hair (or so i thought) untill her mum mentioned to me that she straightens it every morning because 'i hate curls'.
Said to someone with afro hair and a child with ultra curly ringlets

on sunday, i used hair straighteners on dd for the second timein her life. we were going to a wedding.
i have myhair chemically straightened. the chemicals are harsh. the process takes hours and hours and hours. i would never let dd do that to her hair till she was 18.... ok, maybe 16.
if this woman feels her dd's hair is too difficult, why doesnt she just cut it? my dd has always had short hair because sh e wont let me brush it.
some people. mor emoney than sense.

My dd is 6 and has waist length Botticelli curls. Until she was 4 I really struggled with keeping it nice and then discovered a book called "Curly Girl". I use to shampoo and condition, and her hair was a nightmare. Now I give its good scrub in the bath water and then use only conditioner which I only halfway rinse out. A bit of leave in conditioner and the brush glides through. Her hair is bouncy and gleaming, not at all greasy as I thought this method would make it. Strange to think her hair hasn't been shampooed in 2 years but it's true.

I do occasionally straighten it with a flat iron at her request but would never do it chemically. Gorgeous curls are worth the effort IMO.

YANBU

She shouldn't be using a brush on curly hair, for starters. It just makes it frizzy.

She needs to use a wide-toothed comb instead rather than putting chemicals on her daughter's hair.

YANBU. That poor child. I hate to think what it's doing to her hair. Sounds like a lazy mum.

She sounds a bit of a nutter.

I would be concerned about the effect it would have on the girl's self esteem thinking she had the 'wrong' kind of hair.

totally wrong imo - putting all those chemicals onto a 2 year old

totally asking for asthma, eczema etc