Thanks Maestradiva! My mom can say whatever she wants. This is my hair and I am going to do with it as I please. I have about an inch and a half of new growth and I am already in love with it. I just think that it is sad that she has such a negative opinion about what God gave her. It also troubles me that she pass it on to me to not love my hair. When I told her that I was thinking of gong natural (I have not told her that I have made my decision, she probably thinks that I am kidding) I showed her some pictures of what I think my hair will look like and all she said was that she use not impressed. She always says that when I show her a hair picture, like her hair is the bomb. But she was singing a different tune when I came home from school and she saw how much my hair grew. Then she had the nerve to say that she hope her hair would grow that much. When also told her about considering going natural she said, "Well, your hair is not bad it is just so thick! It is hard to deal with." I had to tell her that you are not suppose to deal with natural hair like relaxed hair. If you have that mentality then they it is going to unmanageable. I said I was not going to be pressing my hair all the time what would be the point of going natural. And she was shocked that I would not press! She was like "Well, what are you going to do?" Duh! Wear my natural hair, what else? I can feel how beautiful it is going to be. Wait until she gets a load of me. LOL. Sorry, I had to let out my frustration. Thanks for listening.