Styling kids hair

[nappyaddict]

Is it me or does anyone else think it is ridiculous to be straightening/curling girl's hair and waxing/straightening boy's hair for PRIMARY school (which is children 11 and under where I live) Why can't people let them be natural and care free for as long as possible? Why should they need to worry about their appearance at that age and waste any time on it?

You do seem to have a thing about hair atm NA

Do I?

Doing it for over the weekend is ok. I stick DC4 7 yrs hair in curlers if she is being all girly etc. Then again she is obsessed with having curly hair at the moment. She won't change her clothes and wears the same thing every day but is obsessed with hair.

Doing it in a beauty queen style every day is odd I think.

Just thinking about the 'How often do you wash your hair?' thread

I agree it is ridiculous.
I'm not keen on men styling their hair, to be honest.

Ah yes, had forgotten about that solo It is my first 2 week hair wash day tomorrow

How'd it go?

Well I was washing it weekly anyway. Went swimming Thursday and did a grapefruit rinse to get the chlorine out and had to put some Batiste in it yesterday but that's it.

Where I live we have boys at toddler group whose hair is spiked up with gel.

I find it inappropriate in a way I can't quite explain, and apart from anything, what a faff! It's enough work just making sure my DCs are fairly clean and dressed before we go out, let alone making them stand still while I mess pointlessly with their hair.

In the same bracket as jewellery on young children, for me, and almost up there with pierced ears before a certain age.

The only thing I will say in support of boys having 'faffed about hair' is that if your Ds has a style that has no parting(you know, it just has the crown as the meeting point and goes out from there ~ starburst stylee), it seems to be quite hard to get it to do anything else when they are of an age where they want to do the spiking, parting stuff to it.
My Ds is 11.7 and didn't have any 'style' or faffing done to his hair and the few times I tried to part it, it was having none of it , so to actually train it to do something at primary school is not such a bad idea IMO/E. I really wish I had as Ds spikes his hair now with gel, but it really is a fight to do it.