Poor Baby: Learning How To Maintain Your Child’s Hair When It’s Nothing Like Your Own…

July 13th, 2012 - By Jouelzy

This article is for you if you’ve thought or said the following things:

“I have a child with a head full of hair and I don’t know what to do with it!”

“Oh baby, my child’s hair looks nothing like mine, what do I do?”

“Oh baby, my child’s hair is so dry/fine/curly/kinky/thick, I’m just trying to figure out how to keep it healthy!”

Are you a parent who is struggling to figure out how to deal with your child’s hair because they don’t have a similar texture to your own? You’ve mastered the art of your hair and then your bundle of joy comes into the world with a beautiful head of hair that you just can’t figure out. Or maybe you always go to the salon to care for your hair and it’s not a good idea to try and convince your two-year-old to sit still to get their hair done at the salon too. It’s a common problem that plenty of parents face, but I’m here to ease the struggle.

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  • Kidz With Kinkz

    Very interesting article. I am going to share it on my Facebook page KidzWithKinkz

  • JennyWilliams

    Well, this is interesting. K is for Kinky just ran a story talking about the same thing only they called it Oh Baby! and it ran BEFORE this one. This is the second time I’ve read an article on this site that is biting from other natural hair blogs. If you want to create content that is unique you need to do so because this is not cool AT ALL. Why would a larger site need to steal content from a site that is obviously smaller? I also saw the writer of this article featured on K is for Kinky in a hairstyle post so I KNOW she reads that website too! I’ll be sure to email Kurly Bella to let her know you all are jacking her articles and share a link to this on Facebook. Low class Madame Noire. I’m a big fan of both sites as well as a few other natural hair blogs. With it being such a small natural hair community online, you should know better!

  • B

    There are currently a plethora of products which could help maintain different curly/kinky hair textures. The point is that we sometimes have to study our hair/our children’s hair to determine the treatment it needs. I am 1000% percent against kiddie perms and extensions (believe me, I have seen some less-than-7 year-olds walking around with extensions: their parents ought to be ‘shamed of themselves). Instead of putting chemicals in their hair at such an early age, many parents instead decide to take their children to a salon where they stylist can braid their natural hair and there are A LOT of cute styles. Use this time to think creatively.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/V6O2EBOSDDIC3EESW3JS22OYWA Vic

    Worry about maintaining a child’s mind more than their hair. Let’s be serious about parenting.

    • Amija James

      Thank you! Little Quakisha got some pretty hair but she reads on a first grade level and she’s in the 3rd grade!

      • SMH

        I couldn’t even read this article after observing the ‘title’ to include “Poor Baby. How To Maintain Your Baby’s Hair Since S/he’s Too Young for a Perm or Artificial Extensions”. It’s mentalities like those that play one of the main roles as to why so many females grow up with psychological complexes about their own hair! For shame!

  • http://twitter.com/wizkidworld Jay

    The little girls hair on page 2 makes me envious. Look at all of that hair.

    • Amija James

      Oh h*ll no! I’d hate to be her mama! LOL I wouldn’t mind that hair on my head, but I’d be crying if my dd had all that hair!

  • MsFrantastic

    I remember when I had to do my hair when I was younger. It brought tears to my eyes. I decided it was easier to have a child with a white man so my child will never experience the pain I did.

    • Amija James

      Bless your heart girl, that is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard in my life. Bless your heart!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Que-Stevenson/1204180733 Que Stevenson

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha……sigh, Hahahahahahahahahaha, omg, I can’t stop laughing!

    • African Queen

      Who’s to say your child’s hair isn’t going to come out nappy if you have them with a white man?!?! (I have a friend who is biracial and her hair is nappy like mine) Genetics has a funny way of working! Very ignorant comment! Get real sweety!

    • B

      Lol. Easy way out. But, for real though? Say it ain’t so.

    • Butterflyrn

      Girl bye!! You sound like a fool. This can’t be real life.

    • SMH

      You’re subjecting your child to a pain far worse than having your unprocessed hair de-tangled and styled as a child. You’re boasting of having subscribed to the Willie Lynch Agenda, and that, my ‘sista’, is far more painful damage rendered to the Next Generation then ANY method of hair-styling!!!

  • babygirl

    Wish I had all this info when my child was younger.