children below teens dyeing their hair

[evedawn]

|There's a post going around about children with their ears pierced and it makes me wonder whether any of you would let their 8 and 11 yearold daughters get their hair coloured regularly?

My friend regularly (ie: each time they go to he hairdresserrs) lets her daughters have their hair highlighted and coloured,

this last weekend the youngest who is a brunnette was sporting loads of white blonde highlights whilst the eldest (not yet in secondary school!) had patches of orange and purple mixed in with her naturally honey coloured hair. These are not wash in and wash out tints...they're permanents.

PS - for the record I DON'T like it...let kids be kids for as long as possible.

[cruella]

Children ought to be children for as long as possible.
I think they try to be adults too quickly and parents have to take part of the blame for that.
Little girls should look and act like little girls, not mini Madonna's

[blackrosie]

I let my 10 year old daughter have her hair cut with loads of layers and she does have her ears pierced, but thats as far as it goes. I will not let her dye her hair (even though she doesn't want to).
I have dyed my hair all different colours from the age of 15, and am still doing it now. I always drove my mum mad!!
As for children, I do not think that children should.

Ooops, I did let my 12 year old son have a few highlights about 7 years ago, but hey he wasn't a girl and it was all the rage and it was only a few spikes.

[snotneck]

Friends of mine have a daughter who was always dyeing her hair so they said this must stop or your hair will suffer permament damage. Daughter argued she'd already bought more burgundy dye. No way, said parents, enough is enough.
Came home from work to find they had a burgundy dog.

[banjobabe]

I allowed my son to bleach his hair when he was about 14 and he was suspended from school for having an 'extreme' hairstyle.

Mad.

As I said at the time, if I had thought that blonde was extreme then I wouldn't have allowed it. I couldn't shave it off either coz that was classed as extreme too!

BB xx

[garner]

My Granddaughter is 12 and has been having her hair coloured since being 9.I do not agree with it but have not pushed my nose in for fear of offending.When she has visited and said [do you like my hair] I have had to say no and I don't ,she is too young and had a lovely natural colour before.To be honest I think my daughter in law is letting her grow up far before her years,but perhaps i'm old fashioned and this is the way of youth today and parents.g

[Aprilis]

Lol @ snotneck! The thought of coming home to a burgundy dog is so funny!

Evedawn, I'm glad this question has been asked as my 10yr old daughter has been asking to have her hair highlighted since last year and I've always said no.

I can understand why she wants it done as her once pale blonde hair has now gone a kind of dark, dirty blonde and no doubt will continue to get darker as she gets older. I'm generally quite a liberal parent but my opinion on this is that
children below teen age shouldn't be allowed to colour their hair.

As so many parents let their children have all manner of things done these days I have wondered fleetingly whether I'm being unreasonable. Thanks to all of you who have posted I now have no doubts at all that I'm right to continue saying no.