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To think that for all the bad things Jordan does, straightening her daughter's hair is not really that bad

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GenevieveHawkings · 18/02/2010 18:39

look at this page

So big deal.

Her daughter has really curly hair, right? If I were in her shoes I'd probably be curious to see what it would look like straight too. I'd do it as well, I know I
would.

As long as it's a one off and not somethig she does on a daily basis where's the harm?

Why is this news in the papers and why would Peter Andre go off his chump about it? (Apparently he has, well, according to the Daily Mail at least )

I'm not saying that you can't see a mile off the road that this little girl will be going down in the coming years but really, I'm sure loads of people would do this too.

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SpicedGerkin · 18/02/2010 21:49

Didn't Jordan have Princess in those awful baby high heels though?

DorotheaPlenticlew · 18/02/2010 22:01

Did she, oh well not surprising I guess, I just hadn't seen. The very existence of the baby heels pisses me off tbh.
Who'd be a sleb child, eh.

marsden14 · 18/02/2010 22:04

This is laughable.
Me and my DD who is 5, have had many a weekends, where we dress up, put on make-up, straighten hair/curl hair and put high heels on......Might have to draw my curtains now as would hate for SS to be phoned by a neighbour.

thesecondcoming · 18/02/2010 22:19

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DorotheaPlenticlew · 19/02/2010 08:03

Not that many people on this thread actually think it was child abuse, only one or perhaps two? posters have taken it that absurdly far I think.

Totally fair enough as an afternoon's play, just hate the notion of actually buying purpose-made heels for a toddler.

Piffle · 19/02/2010 08:07

She does dye her dds hair blonde and uses fake tan too apparently
tis grim imo

sarah293 · 19/02/2010 09:19

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GothDetective · 19/02/2010 09:22

I think that bleaching it blond is worse then straightening it.

rainbowinthesky · 19/02/2010 09:31

Lol at people who have said straightening a child's hair is child abuse. Absolutely clueless!

EssenceOfJack · 19/02/2010 09:52

Agree that it's nowhere near child abuse, but it's still an unnecessary thing to do. A one off to copy mummy fair enough but not all the time. Talk about shitty body image messages.

pinkheart · 20/02/2010 14:30

what about little boys putting them fake tattoos on them selves? thats playing also like putting play make up on, isn't it? or is that child abuse? making them sit there to have them stuck on theirs arms, and they can be there for a good few days, do they do any damage to the skin??

pinkheart · 20/02/2010 14:31

lol at this thread

Pikelit · 20/02/2010 14:33

The bloody woman shouldn't be allowed near children! It is a form of abuse, imho. Children should be allowed a childhood and not be treated like some creepy sort of doll. Yuck!

marsden14 · 20/02/2010 14:37

Im with you Pinkheart.....absolutely laughable. Child Abuse?? Jesus I must stop playing with my little girl when she wants to play dress up and be like mummy, who has naturally straight hair, unlike my daughter who has curly...
Absolute load of rubbish.

JaneS · 20/02/2010 14:43

Child abuse?! That's just trivializing what is a real, horrible experience for some people. The child looks perfectly happy and judging by the way she's running her ha.nds through it, she's excited about the new texture. I wouldn't straighten a child's hair either (hot irons), but I can totally understand the child wanting it done (it's a tactile thing, isn't it?)

UpYourViva · 20/02/2010 14:47

Since when is straightening a childs hair child abuse

DD (5) got hannah montana straightners for christmas and most weekends she gets me to straighten it, have also straightened it when she was 3ish with my own straightners

if i wacked her round the head with a pair of straightners then yes...it would be child abuse.

Good god

LittleMrsHappy · 20/02/2010 14:55

Oh for goodness sake "child abuse" I think some people should actually real the definitions of these words and also the true meaning of child abuse!

These words are branded about too loosely nowadays it takes away the true significance of what these words stands for!

if straightening a child's hair IS not child abuse, then I wonder what real child abuse IS! should that be called vain, idiotic, etc.... "rolls eyes" at the stupidity of some people"

Straightening a child's hair is silly and vain and also damaging the child's locks by heat etc.... but in no way, shape or form is this classed as child abuse!

Keep it REAL, and use such graphic and meaningful words for what they actually are for!

Im presuming all people who choose to curl their child's hair with rags, tongs, crimps etc.... for pageants, photos etc.. put hair in bobbles tightly should all be classed as child abusers as at the end of the day its causing the hair follicles some damage!

marsden14 · 20/02/2010 15:01

Love it LittleMissHappy......

GoddessInTheKitchen · 20/02/2010 15:05

i think the eyelashes were a bit much and to then put them out there on facebook is not right, but hairstraightening! as long as its not done regularly then its hardly going to damage her hair is it. i've done dd's once in her 4 yrs of life just to see what it would look like, and no i wouldn't of permed it if it was straight because that would be ridiculus and permanent!

agree that suri cruis' heels and lipstick is much worse, at least princess usually looks age appropriate

coldtits · 20/02/2010 15:07

It's silly, vain, may damage her hair, and probably isn't born of the very best joined up thinking.

It's not child abuse. It isn't harming her in any way.

Look at Jordan. She knows what she is doing with a pair of hair straighteners. She's as unlikely to burn her with them as I am to cut my child's ear when I trim his hair.

SarfEasticated · 20/02/2010 15:12

I agree with Coldtits, it's the world she inhabits, must be as normal to her as breathing, and her DD probably wants to be just like her mum. As long as she is loved I don't actually think it matters.

nighbynight · 20/02/2010 16:07

The eyelash photo was awful. I think Jordan is just not a very visual person, odd because she makes her living out of posing for photos, but sometimes she just doesn't seem to realise how bad an outfit or something looks.

Def not child abuse, I bet the little one was enjoying dressing up.

LittleMrsHappy · 20/02/2010 16:13

I think we need to put this into prospective also, it WAS NOT Katie who put the eyelashes or put them on facebook, it was the nanny and katies sister who done so.

I dislike the woman for parading her children around like a media circus, but I wont judge her for something that she had no control over.

Straightening a child's hair is not my idea of fun, but neither is it worthy or even news material!

Anybody will have a ripe at her for the smallest of reasons, all because she is simply Jordon!

JaneS · 20/02/2010 16:25

at coldtits. Jordan does indeed strike me as a woman who knows her way around a pair of straighteners!

iarose · 20/02/2010 16:31

My DD is 7 and has naturally straight hair - wants it to be curly like her best friend (don't you always want what you haven't got?) and so sometimes I do use my tongs and give her the curly treatment... not every day tho - it would ruin her hair! She also loves sitting by me when I put on make up and likes to play with my lipstick and eyeshadow, it's natural for a little girl to want to copy mummy isn't it?

I agree that to call straightening a 2 year old's hair 'child abuse' is way OTT, it is nothing of the sort. As another poster said, ear piercing is far more upsetting when done to babes in arms as that genuinely hurts! When done properly, straightening causes no damage except maybe to your hair.

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