I had short hair up until the 3rd grade or so (after a disastrous bowl cut my dad gave me that made me cry). Then I pretty much had long hair all through my childhood.
When I first got Olive's hair cut into a bob, I LOVED it. I'm growing it out now because I can't wait to braid it and I love being able to put it up, but I really miss that bob. I wonder if I should cut it again....
Did you have long or short hair growing up? Will you keep your LO's hair long or short?
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pomelo / 5129 posts
I had curls down to my bum. It was gorgeous, but my mom cut it into a bob when I went to school because she didn't have time to chase after me with a hairbrush anymore. I use to get AWFUL tangles and hated having it brushed.
When she cut it, all the curl fell out 
If I ever have a girl, I think it will depend on the texture of her hair. I'll have biracial children, so there's sort of no telling what their hair will end up looking like. I think it'll depend on how hard it is to manage vs. how cut it looks in long curls.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
I've always had long hair. My youngest sister had a bob for a while when she was young, and I thought it was so cute! I don't know that it would have looked so cute with my wavy/curly hair though.
Olive is so adorable!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Shortest was still shoulder length, and I remember having long hair most of the time. One of my fav memories as a young child was my mom doing my hair!
squash / 13208 posts
Both! Was long then it was cut then it grew long again.
My DD doesn't have much hair at all - its curly and just to her neck so I cant see myself cutting it for years....
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
long! then when I got to middle school, I did the "grow out and chop" every year.
grapefruit / 4584 posts
A short and horrendous bowl cut with bangs trimmed (crooked) by my mom. As a direct result, I still haven't cut my daughter's hair @ 20 months. I think I'm finally breaking down and getting her bangs cut this weekend though - she's starting to look like a bit of a wild woman. She has very fine hair that is actually getting quite long, but you can't tell unless it's wet because it usually curls. Most days I put it in pigtails.
clementine / 899 posts
Long until I was about 5 or so when my Mum had had enough of the screaming and struggle I put up every time she brushed my hair. It's fine and gets tangled very easily. So from there I had short to medium length until I was in my early twenties.
grapefruit / 4823 posts
I always had hair down to my waist, until I was in 2nd grade and got lice. My hair was so thick and long they had to cut it to get rid of the lice (
grapefruit / 4442 posts
always long.
We're hoping to grow out DD's hair but I think i might want to cut it because I cannot do her hair to save my life
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
Both. I had shorter hair as a kid. My mom took me for a perm in 3rd grade and I have naturally wavy hair. I was also missing my top and bottom front teeth, so I looked awful. I grew my hair out and didn't cut it short again until I was 20.
nectarine / 2964 posts
I had short hair when I was a child and I hated it. My mom cut my hair (BADLY) and she always lied to me. She would say, see we are growing it out. see it is time to trim it so it will grow nicely. Oh. we trimmed too much ? nah....
One year in elementary school she completely cut off all my hair so I looked like a boy. Because she said it was summer. It was awful. Sometimes I wonder what is up with her. Strangers would come up to my parents and referred to me as "your son".
Another excuse she said was because she needed to wash my hair and if I wanted long hair, I need to wait until I grow up and wash my own hair because long hair is very troublesome. But since she was my hairdresser she liked to trim it short. After I was able to go to the hairdresser on my own, I had long hair since, except for a few times but it was never too short.
pomegranate / 3729 posts
Mine was so varied. It was long in kindergarten and first grade, then my mom cut a bob with bangs in second grade, then long in third, and then VERY short in 4th grade (my Mom told me that my Grandma who had just died would have LOVED my short hair...trickery). After that it was always long until senior year of high school when I got a chin length shag.
pomelo / 5298 posts
@PinkElephant: This!
My hair was also always kept fairly short (chin length). My LO (now 2.5 years) just had her first haircut and it was only a trim. No bangs for her yet and I intend to keep her hair longer until she's old enough to decide otherwise.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
My hair didn't start growing or get long until I was about three. Then, it was long ever since. I always wore it in pony tails or a bun, so it wasn't ever long and out.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I had what my stepmother called "Daddy's hair" when I was little. Kept long because my dad liked it that way. A week or two before he married my stepmother I talked her into letting me get it cut into a bob. She was hesitant, and said my dad wouldn't like it, but I told her she was going to be my new mommy so it was okay.
My dad cried, lol.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I had short hair until high school. My parents made me have it short.
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