Re: Sis in-law + relax my 5yr old\'s hair = Kick a$$
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Valerie said:
One of the sad things about this whole affair, is the repeating advertising of relaxers for children, you see in the magazines. The girls always look nice and there is still a lot of negativity about small children having natural hair, if their hair is thick, mothers get mad with they have to wash their children and little girls get mad, because mothers vent their angry on the poor child's hair, the hair is combed with angry and vexation. People don't want to take time and comb their children's hair and plait it or maybe, they just don't know how to look after their hair and the language about how hair is so negative. 'You and that
d@mn nappy hair'. 'You need to control those naps' I can't deal with that big bush'. I don't care how many people say that nappy is now used as a positive word, I still think it is very negative and it is a word I don't use. With all this angry, this hated, bitterness. Girls grow up hating their hair. I am not referring to adults relaxing their hair, they make their own choices, but children cannot. We as adults have to guide them. I myself have been guilty of relaxing my daughters hair twice, one when she was 5 and again at 7, but both times allowed her hair to grow out. I also realised I am damaging my daughter's hair, and her scalp, however my sisters-in-laws were very angry that I don't relax her hair, when she went to America with her father at 10 and again 13. I was called irresponsible and how can I let my daughter grow up with all that hair, one complained she couldn't deal with her hair, one said thank God, she had boys instead of girls, because dealing with all that hair. My daughter said that her aunts dragged her hair when they were combing and grumbled under their breaths and Ayodele's father went and relaxed her hair, I told him not to, and he did it. I was so angry, I couldn't say anything, when she was arrived at the airport, her hair was relaxed. Your sister was more than way out of line. Relaxers for children is a billion dillor industry and the hair industry does not want to loose that money. So they work on our insecurities, easy to comb, and they are so gentle, they cannot harm your child's hair. Ideal for "hard to handle hair". So many of parents are brain washed into relaxing hair, and until we can see the light, there will always have this problems of relatives such as mothers, mothers -in law, sisters, sisters -in law, grandparents, fathers thinking they are doing the best and in the long term damaging the next generation. I am sure that your daughter's hair will grow back and I really think that you need to speak to your sister in law, when you have cooled done and show her the statistics of how many young girls, have permanent baldness, need hair transplants, the damage to young scalps, the hair breakage etc, and if she wants to contribute another generation of permanent bald woman, and more money to the trichologists, go ahead, but not with your own daughter.
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