I guess these tams are my daughter's now...

My hubby bought me a couple not knowing they'd need to be "too big" for all my hair, yk? Well Trinity found them and has claimed them for her own. She asked me if slept with it on if she'd wake up with dreadlocks LOL

 

awww well tell her she wont wake up tomoro with dreads nbut someday

 

your daughter is precious
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very cute

 

very cute comment and pics!

 

she's so cute!

 

Thanks, I of course thinks she's cute but I am biased.

She keeps telling me, "I am not big enough for dreadlocks but when I am big like you I can have some." I never told her that, that was just her thought. So I supported it and said, "Right." She's 3 and 1/2 or I probably would have elaborated on it all.

 

What a cutie.

 

i want to dread my daughters hair so bad (she's 2) but she isn't old enough to make a completely informed decision (lol she's barely saying sentences yet) so if she starts wanting them i think i'll make her wait until she is 9 or somewhere around there, or ya know when i feel she is old enough to understand the positive consequences of having them as well as the negative. oh but i soooo want to let her dread up

 

I feel ya. K and I haven't talked about it a whole lot but he's pretty on board with whatever our daughter wants regarding her hair. She wanted it cut and I thought he'd never go for it. But then he surprised me a little when he said, "Well, it's her hair, isn't it her choice to make?" (She wanted it cut - SHORT)

I hope my girls wear dreads one day, but even if they don't, they will still learn about image, false image ideas, etc regardless because I am dedicated to breaking the cycle of image issues. My mother at 50 still has them (recently had a breast enhancement surgery), I at 25 still have them, and I am working so hard to gain a new and realistic perspective to break it, yk? Damn, I have a rambling tendency here lately. Guess I'm starting to feel at home.

 

i'd let her make her own decsicions on clothes and hair cuts and things like that but dreads are so much more perminant, it's almost like getting a tatoo, it's that i just fear at maybe 5 she'd say yeah mamma i want dreads then change her mind a year later and i wouldn't want her to be stuck with something that she didn't like or that made her upset i'm just used to my iolder kids making decisions for themselves with much fervor and then changing their minds quikly i.e. i spent $200 getting my son into soccer then after the first game says he doesn't want to do it anymore lol or the time my other son wanted to switch schools....we got it done and then he decided he actualy didnt like the new school and wanted to go back to his old school, unfortunately the school board wouldnt approve it so he was stuck at the school he didn't like and he was terribly upset

 

ohhhh, that's SO precious!!! hahaha... so cute that she wants dreads already!

man, while dreads are a "permanent" thing, they can always be cut off when you don't want them anymore, and hair grows. i think when i have kids, if they want dreads, as soon as they're able to express that to me, i'll let 'em dread up. kids are likely to dread anyways because they won't sit still long enough to have their hair brushed, lol!!!