Okay, so I've got a question. For mothers with boys with long hair; why?
I ask because I have a friend who is refusing to cut her sons hair (he's a smidge over a year) and I just don't get it. It's in his face, his eyes, tickling his ears... with a girl and long hair you put it in pony tails, or braids, or use headbands or at least give them a style that keeps it out of their eyes. When I see boys with long a$$ hair it's almost always unruly and in the way. So why?
{edit} and by cut I do not mean buzzed. Buzzed cuts are not the only option for a boy.
{edit} I'm asking out of curiosity, not because I'm pulling my hair out over the topic... just so you know.
{final edit} Okay, again this is out of CURIOSITY, not because I'm hunting you down in Target and berating you in the aisles. I'm honestly interested in reasons and understanding the why. Any well thought out reason is good enough so long as it's not "Well, I don't care how my kid feels, I do what I want!" My son was born with a ful head of hair, and by 7 months we decided to get his hair trimmed.
Prior to first hari cut:
Post:
And I hated every hair cut we've paid for ($30 on average) because everyone thinks that clippers are the necessary tool, which is why I cut it myself now.
I love this:
And this
And this:
And this
And this
So what I'm trying to say is that by short I do NOT mean a lack of style, or length even. When I say long, I mean that when left to it's own devices, the kid isn't having to sweep it aside to even see out of it.
That's my attempt at giving guidelines for an otherwise vaguely defined length. I consider my son's short in all of the images posted, even short-short in some. But I love the slightly messy, rock star cuts the best. I'm not a fan of buzz cuts, at all. I love style and texture, which is why I cut both my husbands and my sons now rather than pay some chick to f it up and cut it like a "dude". Just some perspective...
So again... looking for honest input, not upset egos! Someone brought up religion, fantastic. Others that their child, individually, just looks nice with longer hair, awesome. Other's that the actual length has little to do with it, since curls keep it out of the way, logic, it's super wonderful. Love it. Keeep it coming.
{I would also have to say that many of the photos posted I would NOT consider long hair. Although a few definately fit the bill, many are merely longish, long in comparison to buzzed, some curls at the base of the neck does not constitue long}
That's what I posted this in the toddler/preschool group, because I'm talking about the little ones that are too young to have an opinion. A choice that's theirs is different.
I will admit though, as I scrolled up, I did think that your two oldest were girls in the first picture. Cute girls, but girls nonetheless.
Quoting MagickalMommy:I think long hair is cute on boys. My older boys are 9 and 5. They started growing their hair out because that was their choice.
Their bodies their hair, their choice. JMO.
They deicded to cut it and donate it to locks of love this summer. My 9 year old is growing his out again. The 5 year old hasn't decided yet. Once it gets long enough they will donate it again :)
Before (last Christmas)
After
My little is 15 months old and he doesn't have much long hair, but it is so unruly and curly, I don't know what we will do with it....
2 of my boys have long hair, like down to their shoulders right now. My rule about it is they have to keep it clean otherwise they can do whatever they want to it. I wouldn't love it if they shaved it all off, but it's only hair.
Quoting MagickalMommy:I think long hair is cute on boys. My older boys are 9 and 5. They started growing their hair out because that was their choice.
Their bodies their hair, their choice. JMO.
They deicded to cut it and donate it to locks of love this summer. My 9 year old is growing his out again. The 5 year old hasn't decided yet. Once it gets long enough they will donate it again :)
Before (last Christmas)
After
My little is 15 months old and he doesn't have much long hair, but it is so unruly and curly, I don't know what we will do with it....
That's why we cut my son's hair too. He was 16 months and we had just come home from a birthday party. He was wearing khakis and a sweater vest and 2 people asked if it was a girl! He still had super fine baby hair that was pretty short on top but had these gorgeous curls at the nape of his neck. We cut it that day and I actually loved it short!!! I called him our little banker because he was still wearing the khakis and sweater vest after the hair cut!
Quoting LindsayTmom11:
I love this topic because I have a 19 month old and I just got his hair cut. I think my son looked so darn cute with blonde curls all over and really hated to let them go. But every time we were in a grocery line or passing other people in the grocery isle, they would say "aww she's so cute." It made my hubby so angry. So I gave in and got it cut. Definitely looks all boy now. =)
Pared to his brothers :-)
Quoting IQuitCounting:Those are some pretty boys! From what I can tell from that photo I wouldn't consider any of them to have "long" hair. I think there's a misconcpetion with most people that "long" is anything that's not buzzed :) Which I don't, when I mean long I mean long like bangs to the chin long!
Quoting echupko:My middle has kind of long hair. He has a unibrow lol so we keep that hidden! He also has a small head so longer hair looks better on him.
And the baby now has hair like da1. The both have bigger heads and shorter hair looks better.
Of course they are all perfect however they wear their hair! But they are little now so it's my choice.
My 2 1/2 year old has long hair. Dh and I think his long Shirley Temple hair is beautiful and don't give a flip about what anyone else thinks. Little Bit loves his long hair and always has. He's actually very vain about it lol. We plan to donate his hair when we do eventually cut it which will be when he asks us to. Long hair suits him. My 5 year wears his hair short because that's his best look and because he likes it short.
People do think he's a girl even though he is always dressed like a boy and some people, even complete strangers, feel free to voice their opinion about how terrible it is for him to have long hair. One even told my 5 year to take a pair of scissors and cut it! I would never presume to make negative comments to anyone about how their children look. Not my business.
BTW my 5 year old was a bald baby and then had short hair as a toddler and people thought he was a girl. So short hair or long hair, both my boys have been mistaken for girls lol. Who cares?
Either way...perhaps because he's spent more than half his life with surgical shaving or because he has scar tissue that leaves bald spots.,,,I'm reluctant to cut his hair until it actually bugs him. And it doesn't.
How did you break your kids of the bottle?
- IQuitCounting
on Nov. 20, 2012 at 5:58 PM