Ever since my daughter was a baby. I would get up before her and get ready for work and then get her up and get her ready to go to the sitter or now to school. Basically the same ruetine everyday. Then before we leave I brush her hair. Now when my daughter was a baby she did not have any hair. In fact, she did not have any hair until she was about a year old.
Anyway, now she has long hair and it’s pretty thick. I have always brushed it out because when she brushes it out she doesn’t seem to get all the rats out. We go through the same battle every morning. She will say “Mom, your not being gentle enough.” and I’ll say “but honey I have to get the rats out. And I don’t want you going to school looking like a rag-a-muffin (my own special word that I made up).” Then I’ll say “now if we got it cut, we would not have to go through this every morning.” and her reply is always “no, I don’t want it cut.” I guess we will have our hair woes every morning until she moves out to go to college.
I know I should probably just let her do her own hair and let her look like a rag-a-muffin. But you know, we all want our kids to go to school not looking like they just got out of bed and went to school.
