I am fuming, for the past 9 years since my eldest daughter was born, total strangers think it's ok to approach me and tell me how to do my daughters hair. My daughters are mixed white and black Caribbean and most of these comments are from black people, it just upsets me, they assume that I don't know how to care for Afro hair which is not the case, but I don't want to plait it or cornrow it and nor do my girls want their hair like that - their choice. Sometimes they like having a natural Afro look, we cream and brush it carefully so it doesn't get knotted or matted. It just makes me so cross that strangers KEEP making snide comments, sometimes really nasty in passing such as 'that white girl doesn't know how to do black hair' etc etc. Most of the time the girls like bunches or a high pony tail but it seems unless we conform and get tight cornrows it's not acceptable here (I live in Peckham) - if this was you, what would you say to these people? I'm quite shy and quiet so usually just listen and nod.
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