Anyway I digress. It was off to the salon today for his "starting new school" haircut and it got me thinking about boys and their hair styles and I wondered what you other mums think about the subject, specifically little boys with long hair. Now I have no problem with teenage boys having long hair even though it often makes them look like a character off of the "Kevin and Perry" set, but they are old enough to make their own choices and hair style is often as much a fashion thing as the latest footwear or school bag, but when it comes to babies, toddlers and young boys under about the age of 10 who have shoulder length hair I often wonder why parents are happy for their son to resemble a girl?
Charlie had his first haircut at 9 months old because his hair was getting so long (no he wasn't born with loads but it grows really quickly) I was beginning to worry people would start saying ow pretty "she was" every time they looked in the Pram! Another thing that crosses my mind is, do these parents wish they had a daughter?
I can't tell you how many boys at Charlie's primary school had long hair and to be honest, it always looks scruffy. Girls with long hair go to school with plaits, pony tails or buns to keep them looking tidy and boys, well they just wear their hair down, eagerly awaiting the next infestation of nits!
A school cap was an important part of Charlie's old school uniform but show me a boy with long hair who's cap either sat on his head correctly or who looked like a smart young man representing his school and I will eat his now redundant headgear!
Long hair on boys often seems to be the pre-requiste of a certain type of mum/family, its hard to put my finger on, but I know the kind of mum I mean and I don't want to say "trendy" as I certainly consider myself to be a trendy mum, but the sort of mum with model girl looks but earth mother tendencies, a home in the most desirable of area's but one that hasn't seen a hoover for weeks. The sort of Mum who does finger painting all day with the children and forgets to cook a dinner for her husband when he comes home from the office. I may have got this all wrong and can only base my finding's on women that I actually know or who I met at the school gate, so would love to know what you think, or if your son has long hair, why?
I remember when we attended the Open Evening for Charlie's new school, we were chaperoned around by a boy with long hair and too long trousers, he looked and walked like he didn't belong in that environment with my husband actually going as far as to say the boy looked "a right drip" but I am sure with a hair cut and a bit of needle and thread he could have looked so much smarter. Neither of us thought he portrayed the image the school was trying to convey, unyet there doesn't seem to be any policy on haircuts for boys (not that there should be) at any school but go in with the wrong colour shoes or without your blazer and you'd be given detention for sure!
Charlie complete with his new haircut wearing Ralph Lauren t-shirt, Abercrombie and Fitch chino's and his second pair of Nike Blazers.
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