Youngest person you know with dreads?

Hello there, Internet-peoples!

I was wondering how young the youngest person you know with dreads is. I remember seeing a pic of a four year old kid with dreads on DreadHeadHQ (he looked un-happy o.o) but who's the youngest person you've seen with them?

I'm fifteen, and I'm the only person I know who has them. When I lived in Vancouver half the population had them but now I live here, in boringsville. -.-

 

I met a Rasta family a few years ago, and the youngest was about 18 months old-he had the cutest little baby dreads.
My daughter was about 9 or 10 when she started dreads. She cut them off a few years later in a teen rebellion against us.

 

Wait, wait, wait, she cut off her dreads to rebel ?

Weird.

 

i seen a 17 month old thats started them...

 

his dad has amazing dreads.. he takes care of them..

 

How else can a kid rebel against parents like us? My biggest fear is that she will become a corporate lawyer or something...lol
I think we're through the worst of the rebellion for now. She's back on track again, dying her hair crazy colours with me.

 

A lawyer, think of the shame!

Good thing she's back to "normal" now. xD

 

well i don't KNOW him
but he's the youngest person i've seen with dreads lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGasteRGRos&feature=related

 

he's a sick skater, sick dreads too

 

4 months old
freinds kid years ago
ive also known a couple ppl that grew theyres from birth

 

i guess that proves that everything in life is relative and not absolute

 

btw
u know the kid in your sig?
cant think of his name now but seen him for years and probly been dready since he could walk
great kid..always good to see him
not sure i know who his parents are tho..well probly know em, just never seen em together i guess..lol

not 100% sure since was so long ago, but i think he was 1 of the kids that
well at trade circle, i traded a peice of jewlery i made to a couple kids (it was worth bout 30 i guess) for a couple pebbles, a broken earling a rubber band and something else..just random things in theyre pockets, the broken earing traded for as flashlight the fladhlight for ..i forget..wekll basicly went from trading the 39 dollar necklace for a pennies wirth of crap..after bit 12 more trades i got 3 drums outtrw the crap i got from the kids
2 drums were crap..clay ines that shattered..then there was a metal one with synthetic head i hated but wass only 1 left..traded that for the drum i still have today (probly worth bout 200)
thats why i never hesitate to trade good things for junk with kids.. the karma always pays off and the junks turned to treasure every time.

 

I dunno...I have mixed feelings about this one. Guess if the kid was old enough to say "hey I want dreads", but infants with locks...just kinda weird to me.

 

I agree. I think the kid should decide. I do not understand how a 4month could have dreads though???! My baby is 6months and has a lil mohawk (it just grows that way) but his hair is soo soft and shiny there is no way it could dread. All babies have bald patches too because their hair just falls off it's so thin. And most babies get cradle cap which you couldn't treat w dreads! I call bs tbh

 

infants seems to be a little extreme yes, seems to be purely the parents preference...but once they can walk and talk, awesome

 

Deffo parents preference. It can look sweet, but how can an infant or toddler, or even a small child possibly know what they want? My friend's son has been growing his hair long (just long, not dreads) since he was about 7/8 and has had to put up with a whole load of teasing from classmates. He's had to dig pretty deep and really show the courage of his convictions at times - especially on days where he's had gangs of more chavvy kids calling him 'gay' and 'a girl'. If he didn't really, really want the hair himself it would be awful to have put up with that for the sake of parental wants.

 

the family i was talking about was a dready famiky, actualy 3 dready familes living together, an aussie married to s jamaican, an african american married to a caucasion (american as aposed to aussie)
and an african american couple
all the kids were dreaded from birth, the 4 month old only had like 3-4 dreads
they were alowed to choose wether they wanted to keep em or not, they choose to keep em.. and it was something they were immencely proud of growing em from birth.
actualy, all the move children that lived round the corner as well had theyres since birth and by the time they wrre 3-4 had amazing locks.

growing locks from birth isnt uncommon at all i just dont agree with strict rasta familes that insist the kids must keep theyre locks wether they want to or not, sure its theyre religion but the kids should be alowed to find theyre own way..

btw..bullies will be bullies no matter how ya wear your hair
changing wont stop em
it will only mean they won
they beat ya into submission and u gave up your convictions out of fear
when they win they just know they can push u further.

 

My daughters preschool buddy...Izaiyah...has some killer little dreadies! Hes about 4 yrs old

 

I thought about dreading amaras hair from birth...but sided with the notion that the child should have a choice n the matter. Dreads are a commitment. My daughters friend Izaiyah comes from a devout rasta family....so for them its completely religous...which I understand. But to dread your baby's hair for anything other than a religous commitment is silly.

 

Its actually probably easier for a very young kid to have dreads as they have no sense of separation, no sense of "us" and "them", and no idea about social convention. They don't judge others and they're not self-concious. I guess if you grow up with dreads they're just part of you, part of who you are. By the age of 7 when my friend's kid decided he was "into rock music" and wanted to grow his hair, he already had a sense of identity (albeit a tender, fragile one), and a growing sense of what was socially acceptible and what wasn't. At 7/8 he already knew he was going against the grain - and other kids knew this too, and if you suddenly decide to do something "different", your peers tend to notice - kids can be cruel.

As an infant you have no clue. You just are, and others just are. It's such a shame we have to lose that.

So, yes, having thought about it, dreads on small kids rule!!