I will never forgive my mother for...........

[Jaffaswife]

my very short home cut fringe

Please share yours.....

My fringe was shorter than your fringe so there. It was 1cm accompanied by very long pig tails. Not a good look.

What happend to the other I'll never forgive my mother thread?

My mother constantly cutting my hair to boyish shortness to 'thicken it up'. Yeah, good job Mum. Now my hair is thin and all of my childhooh photos look like Blackadder.

Sending me to my first day at an English boarding school wearing a sailor dress and knee high white socks with holey patterns and T-bars.

AAarrrrggghhh!!!!!

Acceptable at 6, not at 11.

oh another one whose hair was cut in the same style as her brothers so that peers would ask if she was a boy or a girl.

All in the name of "making it grow through thicker"

never letting my hair grow or doing anything with it (think early Michael Jackson)

What is it with mums and fringes? Mine started way at the back of my head and was so thick and huge, but somehow never managed to get closer than than 2 inches to my eyebrows!

Making me eat cold liver and mashed potatoes.
I remember all too well chewing through the tears and gagging at the same time.

Oh this can go on forever.
The mild ones. Do you remember thigh length socks in lovely rainbow colours. Just right for little girls. For Christmas Mum got me petrol blue knee high socks with toes with reindeers on the side. A Barbie instead of a Sindy. A toy iron, cooker etc.. (need I say more)

Because at the age of 13 me and Mum had the same size feet making me wear her Gola (this was the 80s they weren't retro and trendy like they are now) trainers for PE because there was "no point" buying me my own pair.

I will never forget the total humiliation ...

...for not telling me how much work it is being a mother, she made all the housework and cooking seem simple...now I know how hard she mmust have worked!
And she's dead, so I can't tell her I now appreciate her.
Ah well.

what a lovely post to describe your mum miggsie

Announcing that I was 'a woman now' at the dinner table following my first period.

for thinking it was a good idea to ask some friends of theirs to buy me my FIRST bra and give it to me to unwrap in front of everyone, and what made it worse, I had a crush on the guy, it was so wrong!!!

lovely hairstyle - all the rage when I was a young 'un - the SCRAG

making me eat fish every Friday! Yuk!!!!!! Still can't stand seafood! uuuurrrrggghhh

giving me a dreadful short haircut when I was 5
it's never looked good since!

Oh aswell as the fish thing, the enormously thick fringe which started right at the back of my head and made me look like a lego man

I remember the fringe debacle so vividly that I have grown out my own dds fringes so that I can never be tempted to cut them myself!! (dds are 5 and 3!)

sending me back to school in the afternoon after I pooed my pants in the classroom in the morning. I was known by hannah-poo-pants for years.

Making me eat rabbit stew by telling me it was chicken.

We had a pet rabbit at the time and she knew I didnt want to eat rabbit, so just lied to me instead. And then told me it was rabbit just as I'd finished eating.

I was so upset, I've never forgiven her!

MrsMacaroon and Thornrose

How have you moved on from these situations?

I would still be scarlet

Still traumatised at the sight of "trainer bras"

She also bought me 'Impulse' when I asked her to get me some deodorant for the first time... the BO and noxious perfume merged to form a vicious stench. It was a hot summer too...

I had my hair 'layered' when I was 12 by my Mum's hairdresser who worked from home and was totally out of date regarding fashionable hairstyles - I had to endure the jibes of about 'did the lawnmower win?' for months afterwards. I have to admit that my hair did grow thick (and is now long and dare I say it, fairly luscious ) but I doubt if it was anything to do with the pudding basin haircuts I had when I was younger. Thankfully I was able to persuade my parents that I needed long hair for ballet so I was permitted to grow it to shoulder length. Hooray!

I was so traumatised by this layering thing I almost ran out of the hairdressers at 21 when she suggested cutting me a fringe for a change. I'd kept all of my hair the same length as soon as I was allowed to grow it. The annoying thing is that a fringe actually suits me!!

pmsl @ blackadder eternalstudent