Parents of teens - their haircuts

[dec5girl]

My teenager has long shaggy hair. My grandmother is ALWAYS giving me a terrible time about letting him have long hair. I always tell her that if I can raise a person who is hard working, caring, basically a good person, but he has ugly hair (in some people's opinion), then I will consider myself a successful mother.

 

[tazdev3225]

My DS had hair that was long enough to eat, he did, when he was a teen. He now gets a buzz cut and thats the only time his scraggly beard gets shaved.
My DD has always had long dark hair but she has had some weird dye jobs. Piercings were always interesting. I woke up one day to find her with a giant safety pin in her eyebrow. I took her to get it done right so there wouldn't be an infection. Her labrae was done when she said she would do it herself and she promised to stay away from her friends who were getting into drugs, both are now history. I saved my battles for the really big issues. Hair grows and piercings close up. Teen years are a struggle for identity and they have to figure that out. They are now productive adults and have thanked me for letting them express themselves when they were younger to understand who they are.

 

[luvsJack]

I wonder if he will always be this way though. My dad made my brothers keep their hair short and they never fought about it. When they reached 18 both grew their hair below their shoulders! It was as though they just had to have that little bit of rebellion at some point.

For my own kids, I figure its their heads and their hair. I wear my hair the way I want to, why shouldn't they? My oldest has always kept his fairly short. The youngest has had it every length from shaved head to shoulder length and as many colors: blue, green, bleached blond, black and red. It always ended up back at its true color and a mid length.

 

[sunlver]

I wonder if he will always be this way though. My dad made my brothers keep their hair short and they never fought about it. When they reached 18 both grew their hair below their shoulders! It was as though they just had to have that little bit of rebellion at some point.

For my own kids, I figure its their heads and their hair. I wear my hair the way I want to, why shouldn't they? My oldest has always kept his fairly short. The youngest has had it every length from shaved head to shoulder length and as many colors: blue, green, bleached blond, black and red. It always ended up back at its true color and a mid length.

That might very well be the case with my son . Right now me and his father tell him until he starts paying for his haircuts, we decide. He has some money, but he chooses not to spend it on haircuts,so its our choice now
We are not really overly strict with my son, he does not do it out of fear . He does it because I think to him it is not that big of a deal.

 

[maelstrom]

My mother never cared what style my hair was. I've had it really long, really short, bobbed, spikey, etc. She never wanted me to dye my hair and she literally made herself sick when I used Sun-In in 9th grade.

Now I'm 22 and my hair is partially pink, formerly purple and turquoise, and a little above shoulder length. I'm sure she still made herself sick over it, but she didn't bother me with that nonsense.

 

[disney1990]

My DD is now 23. Over the course of the years, her hair has been pink, purple and green. It wasn't something worth fighting over and she turned out just fine.

As a matter of fact, my DH has long hair. He has grown it out twice now and donated it to Locks of Love. I can't think of a better thing to do.

 

[ilovejack02]

My ds19 has long shaggy hair... my main issue with it is, i think if I took him to a high end salon it would be a better hair cut, but he always just runs into the cheapo place and its not always the best cut... you'd think since i offered to pay he would do it LOL.
He has had long hair for about 3 yrs, drives my FIL and my dad (step granddad) nuts along with his other grandfather.. I tell them all to shut the heck up and quit harrassing him.

My DS5 loves mohawks so ill be getting him a "faux hawk" as soon as we go to the salon.. i think it will be cute for summer!

Too each his own i think.. ive got bigger fish to fry than hair!

 

[pyrxtc]

They can do whatever they want with their hair. It will grow back or grow out. I like boys wiht longer hair and love the shag haircuts that are now in style. My oldest DD hair dark brown hair but we just put lots of red in it and will be getting blonde in time for school next year. younger DD has dirty blonde hair but we just colored large chunks of it blue. I don't judge on looks and I hope that the people that my kids work for later in life do not either. They can get tattoos, piercings, whatever.... as long as they stay drug free and are married when they have their familes. I'm good!!

 

[PatsGirl]

Okay, I want to be the first to admit that I had to look up labrae I thought I knew the terms but this was not what I thought. I'm familiar (literally) with PA but wasn't sure if this was the female equivalent and now I think we've surpassed Walt and need to move on, my first points just recently expired and I'd hate to think this one subject will subject me once again to feeling Un-Disneylike