Long hair on boys?

Aydens 7th birthday pic

Wow. That is some long hair. You do a great job with it.

lol yes he looks like a very confident kiddo. Nice job on the cornrows, I am so not skilled in that department.

i enjoy doing his hair as much as he does

Ayden's hair is gorgeous! It looks just like my Joanna's. She could do anything she wants with her hair. It looks absolutely gorgeous, just washed and let dry, flat irons perfectly, stays in corn rows or braids, etc. I wish she would just leave it alone and let it grow real long, like your son's, but she cuts is to shoulder length.I don't think the school has the place to tell you and your son how his hair should be! With it braided, it's out of his way and doesn't distract anyone else, so I don't know why they should object.

Jen, your little guy is sure cute, and he has beautiful hair! He looks like one of the biracial kids who gets more from the white side than the black side. My grandson is like that, too. He doesn't have that much hair yet, but it looks like your son's. We had an unfortunate situation, where some nasty kids at the high school here started a rumor that my son was really the father, but his white friend was, since the baby turned out not looking very black. His mother was very sensitive about it, to where she didn't even want to take him out in public when he was tiny. Now that he is a year old, although he still doesn't look very black, considering what his dad looks like, he doesn't look just white any more. You are in Vegas, aren't you? Have you had much trouble with dirty looks and comments from people there? When my biracial son, Thomas, was born, my ex was in the Air Force and we were stationed in Germany. The Air Force is extremely integrated and there are many interracial couples and biracial kids, so it wasn't an issue with either Americans stationed with us there, or the German people. When Thomas was 16 months old, we were transferred to Nellis, where we lived off-base. I was really surprised with the nasty reactions I got nearly every time I went out anywhere. It was all from women, both white and black women. I don't remember a white man ever acting they cared, and a lot of black men would go out of their way to hold doors for me, and such, which I appreciated, since I was packing a heavy toddler and had two other little ones in tow. The Nevada welfare office refused to place non-white children with white couples, despite the fact that it meant that most of them had to grow up in foster care (usually with white foster parents). I felt like it was a step back in time! It has been 20 years, though, so I hope it has changed! Shannon, your biweekly trips to the barber sound like great fun! Its a great idea, and also functional, to make it into a fun thing for him. It would have saved us a lot of anguish if we had done that with Joseph, starting when he was tiny. Anyone who has a little boy with the kind of hair that looks best kept real short should consider doing the same thing!

I personally love long hair on little boys. I especially love corn rows when they get a little older. I would not cut your baby's hair. mom2behappy~ your son's hair is beautiful. We ended up adopting a CC/hisp baby boy, so no corn rows here. I will still end up letting it grow out some though.

I love long hair on boys, I married a guy with long hair & his hair was one of the things that attracted me to him! I say go for it, I'd just recommend that he dresses so everyone can tell he's a boy so he doesn't get mistaken for a girl, sometimes that happens with babies.

No trouble at all with dirty looks and comments. There are actually very few pure white or pure black families here. Interacial famlies are the norm. I think a lot has changed in 20 years. Vegas went from a small town to a large city. Since we are so entertainment/adult oriented, the culture is VERY liberal. I suspect the highest prejudice and racism is toward hispanics. At least that's how it feels to me. Nellis is kind of its own little white world plopped right in the middle of the traditionally black part of town. I actually consider Nellis to be the most racist part of town.

I get people mistaking C for a girl no matter how I dress him. One time I had him all in blue with a bib that said "Mommy's Little Man" and leaned over him and said "Oh, she's so cute!" I've had people tell me that he's too pretty to be a boy.

When I've had my daughter's hair loose I've had a couple people think she was a boy, even though she was all dressed in pink. Some people are dumb I guess.

i will not allow a teacher or anyone else for that matter tellme when i should cut my sons hair im happy with it hes happy with it and for me thats all that matters, Hes well aware that he is all boy. Hes always dressed like a lil man also so there no identity crises going on with him. he is my only boy and has more hair than his sisters so many think for that reason alone he should get a hair cut but i just ignore those comments. Ayden was bald until around his first birthday and when his hair was enough for me to grasp i started cornrowing it and it just keeps growing

All the kiddies are gorgeous! I love Ayden's hair. I'm not a hair person so my kiddoes are out of luck until they're old enough to care for their own hair. I'm surprised a teacher would make a comment about his hair.....

Jen, I'm glad to hear that it is better in Vegas, now! I hope the state welfare adoption agency has gotten rid of the their discriminatory practices and, especially, that the racist social workers we had to work with aren't there any more. I wonder if it could have changed enough to where we might get some information to help Julia find her birth parents. She is 21 now, and kind of interested in that. I haven't wanted her to have any contact with them until she was grown up. They were very neglectful of her during the four months they maintained custody of her, before they told the welfare office to take her and insisted that they didn't want to know a thing about her. Despite her severe health problems, due to a serious birth defect called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, she has done very well. She is a beautiful girl, a very talented photographer and graphic artist and has found a wonderful man who loves and appreciated her. I have been in california visiting them this past week, and getting to know him better. Off the topic of hair, but I couldn't help bragging.

Nevada does hae a voluntary registry she could check. I'm not sure how much better DFS has gotten. But when you were adopting, same race placement was given priority by law (even over continued fostercare). That has since changed and now, in public adoptions, race cannot be considered. The town (which is now a big city) is definately different. Its still kind of racially jacked around the air force base. Too much testosterone I suspect!