Babies with stiches for braids!

[Falon]

On the way home yesterday I saw the cutest little chubsey baby girl about 1 or so taking those wobbly baby steps I thought how adorable...then the hair...Why do people braid their children's hair soooo tightly that you can see the pulling on the scalp from a mile away?


It makes me so MAD! I think it's truly child abuse. I know it's a hassle to re-do the hair frequently but the pain must be terrible. After a while I guess the kid just deals with it but it makes me really

to see that. The little girls hairline was already a little too far back from her forehead I can only imagine what it will look like when she is older.


Why oh why...black folk please wake up and stop torturing our children.

 

[M_BYRON_M]

EXACTLY

When i try to get over to my mum the damge that shes doing on my little siters hair (15months) she just doesnt listen because she knows best .Im glad this post has been raised i think ill pruint it off and show it to her .

 

[Kha]

It bothers me to see that too! I just cringe when I see small babies and children with ponytails and braids so tight that you can see those little bumps on their head.

 

[Falon]

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M_BYRON_M said:
EXACTLY

When i try to get over to my mum the damge that shes doing on my little siters hair (15months) she just doesnt listen because she knows best .Im glad this post has been raised i think ill pruint it off and show it to her .

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Please do and ladies let's give some suggestions for alternatives to this...maybe we can save at least one black childs hairline.

 

[GodMadeMePretty]

Precisely why I never put anything in my daughter's hair until it was as long enough. And then, I determined that she would never have more than 5 ponytails on her head at once. Doing nothing to my daughter's hair was definitely to her benefit. I just took a page from my mother's book - she told me that she let me wear an afro until it got to long and started being a floppy 'fro. People used to call me crazy because I would put a headband on her head and call it a day. And I didn't even own those plastic barrettes until she was over 18 months old. (Fear of choking and fear of wasting my money when she lost them). She never went bald around the edges or the back. I'm looking at her growing cycle and in some areas, she still has that hair that she had when she was a baby (until I clip her ends this weekend). My baby has only had her ends trimmed once in her 5-year life. I'm going to post some pictures of her when she was younger.

I think people don't realize that it actually does make the child's head hurt. When my daughter got her hair done at the salon last year, the lady gave her a cute style with lots of ponytail twists all over. Very cute. But she used those tiny rubber bands. It wasn't until the next day that I realized how tight they were. I cut them out and put more back in but a lot looser. She actually said it felt better and then I asked her if it hurt and she said yes. She didn't even speak up.

She liked the style and knew her mother was hair-styling challenged. I'm better now that I have found the boards.

 

[AnnDriena_]

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fear of wasting my money when she lost them

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And that is quite a legitimate fear.

 

[carletta]

I told my child if I put her hair up to tight to speak up and let me know if it's to tight and she does. I hate it when she goes to school and come back w/ one of her hair balls on so tight oyu can see it a mile away. when I asked her who done that to her hair she says her teacher put it back in for her!

right then I told her never, never let her teacher mess w/ her hair again and tell her teacher that I said so !!!! ( I haven't had a problem since !)

 

[Falon]

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GodMadeMePretty said:
I think people don't realize that it actually does make the child's head hurt.

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This is what gets me...as an adult I know my head hurts if it is pulled into a style too tightly...what do parents think the child has no nerve endings? I get soooo mad about this cuz I see it everyday and I have watched black folk braid a baby's hair and they get all pissy with the kid cuz they are squirming and hollering then they want to pop them or something..and if I say something then I get jumped on...uh hello..the kid is screaming for a reason.

The afro thing w/headband is a great idea it can be picked out daily and spritzed with a little moisturizer mixed with water and better yet it can be washed regularly.