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The daily war over the hairbrush
One thing’s for sure. My 4-year-old daughter does not like to have her hair brushed (combed, touched or even looked at for that matter). In fact, it’s so bad that all I have to do is pick up a brush and she starts crying “it hurts” before I touch her hair.
Aah, yes, the young drama queen.
My daughter has long, naturally wavy hair, and she’s a very restless sleeper. Not a good combination. In the morning, she awakes to a knotted mess.
I’ve tried all the tricks. Special shampoo for wavy hair, conditioner for kids and even deep conditioning treatments for adults. I have more bottles of No More Tangles than you can possibly imagine.
My hair stylist hooked me up with a special brush that works well to control tangles and she showed me techniques on brushing hair (start at the bottom and work your way up).
I often braid her hair at night (though she complains that she doesn’t like to sleep with her hair pulled back at all, that it hurts.)
The morning routine is quite fun in our home, as you might imagine.
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By Lea
October 20, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
My mom had this problem with me… Only curls, instead of waves… So I had short hair till I started taking care of it myself! My daughter is also like this, so a few years ago I handed her the brush and told her if she wanted long hair she had to deal with it. (She was 8; now at 13 she has short hair!)