Hey! Parents!! Remember to let your child do what they want with their hair or lack thereof!! It's one of the few ways they can express themselves in everyday life and be proud, so let them!!
Teach them hair safety, like how bleaching your hair too many times can kill it and how bleach can hurt, how dying your hair - even if you don't bleach it - can also hurt your hair's health, or to shower with cold water when washing dyed hair to make it last longer, etc, etc. Then let them choose what they want to do. You have no reason to control what they do with their hair, it's theirs, not yours, I don't give a shit if you don't like the hairstyle they chose, its not for you so you don't have to.
If you daughter wants to have extremely short hair or shave it? Let her!
If your son wants to have long hair? Let him
If your nb kid wants to have a hair style that looks like a specific gender? Let them, and just because of their hair choice you shouldn't assume they changed their gender to male/female, they're still nb and you should address them as such, if you don't it can cause mental health issues.
That's another thing! DON'T! GENDER! HAIRSTYLES! It's literally cut (or not cut) hair, there shouldn't be a gender to it.
Your son wants bright pink hair? LET HIM! Colors also shouldn't have a gender! The only reason they ever started separating "boy colors" and "girl colors" is for companies (like clothing, shoes, etc) to get more prophet.
Your daughter wants a "boy color" or a color that isn't "feminine"? LET HER! Like I said above, colors shouldn't have a gender, don't be an asshole
Your nb kid wants a colored hair and the color isn't both/neither gender related? LET THEM! Don't treat them differently because of it, they're still nb, they're still valid and if you don't think so, you shouldn't have a kid.
Trust me, ever since I was a kid, my dad controlled everything I did, including my hair. He never let me dye it, he never let me cut it short, it was very damaging to my personality. As soon as he didn't have a say in what I did anymore, I cut it short and dyed it and literally everyone I've interacted with before and after the haircut are telling me how happy they are that my personality is shining. When I had long hair and wasn't able to do what I wanted with it, my personality was dull and my mental health plummeted for more often than it ever has now. Ever since I cut my hair, though, my personality is more true, I'm more myself than I ever was before!
So don't give me bullshit excuses for being a bullshit parent, thank you :)
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