Back in 2013 …
Just before my oldest daughter’s 4th birthday, I received an email with a coupon for a haircut at our favorite kid-friendly hair salon. Knowing that she needed a professional bang trim at the very least (I managed to get her bangs nice and crooked in my latest attempt), I offered the option of a haircut as a special mommy-daughter date.
She was very excited about this idea and soon began mentioning she wanted her hair short. I still have no idea where this idea came from. I personally hate short hair. It looks horrible on me and I never really intended for any of my girls to chop off all their locks either. BUT, I realize that my girls will grow up and have opinions different from mine. So my daughter and I spent an entire day discussing what a haircut meant. I showed her multiple pictures of little kids with short hair, medium hair, long hair, up d0s, down styles, etc. Time and time again she chose a chin length bob.
Oh my God, she really means SHORT.
Can I do this? Can I let my baby cut her LONG hair that took almost 4 years to grow? I mean she was BALD until almost her first birthday. We finally got to put pigtails in her hair at just over 2 years old. And now she wants to cut it.
No.
No really, No.
No!
But I pride myself in letting my girls help make decisions that aren’t otherwise life altering or safety issues so …
We headed in for our hair date …
And …
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Here is the chin bob she got!
Update (December 2015):
When going through my old posts to share one here, I came across this post and couldn’t help but laugh. In the past two years, my parenting style has changed a lot. In fact, as a mom of three girls, I realized it was really up to me to be the example in gender neutral parenting for my daughters. I am so glad I let my oldest cut her hair short. She loved it. I learned to love it. But most importantly of all, she learned that it is completely fine for girls to have short hair. The bias tends to be much stronger on the opposite end (the opinion that boys shouldn’t have long hair), but the bias does go both ways and I don’t stand for it.
And in case you are wondering, I have actually chopped my own hair twice since the original post, cutting off nearly 10 inches each time and donating to Pantene Beautiful Lengths in honor of my mom, a breast cancer survivor. AND my younger two daughters just celebrated their 4th birthday and desperately wanted short hair like mommy, so …
Chin bobs for them too!
All I have to say is, #shorthairdontcare
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Editor’s Note: A version of this post was originally featured on Our Magical Chaos. I no longer actively maintain the site but wanted share some of my best posts with my readers here.
Category: Life Changes
Tags: haircuts for girls
