My five year old just got a ‘salon’ cut and she is thrilled. Perhaps a stylist in the making, this girl was pumped just about getting to watch the hairdressers do their work, let alone getting a new look herself.
For weeks she has been asking to have a ‘bob’ and insisted she genuinely wanted short hair. I didn’t know what to think. My eldest has had such a flip out thing about getting her hair cut. The last time I got her hair cut shorter, many many years ago, she almost had a panic attack. Well my little lady is entitled to be her own person so I decided to go for it. She is anything but conflicted. Absolutely tickled about her cut and really looking forward to showing it off to her Daddy tonight.
She looks adorable, I am thrilled about the style too. Bobs always reminds me of Christoper Robin from the A.A.Milne stories, back when bobs where more commonly on sweet little English boys.
While I clearly know my girls are different persons, it can be hard to know when to learn from the experiences I have had with eldest daughter and when to just drop them because they don’t work with my youngest daughter. Same struggle has been going on with my parenting of my two boys… sometimes I use the old saying ‘boys will be boys’ and other times that doesn’t work for them both.
With two girls and two boys (the same sex siblings being about 5 years apart with each set) I learned long ago that no matter how experienced you are as a parent, or how many children you have, you still have to work with their personalities. No cookie cutter kids in my house.
Their uniqueness is a treasure to this mother!
TTFN
