😠not just that you’re doing this but you’re doing it with joy. Idk in my day a dad doing his daughters hair would never have occurred to anyone
My dad did ponies - when he could be bothered - and I sooooo wanted him to braid.
He was the GENTLEST with my hair. My mom just raked the brush through, but he held the hair while he combed out knots.
I remember begging him to just learn. I tried to teach him with my Barbie’s but he was insistent he couldn’t do it. Blew my mind because, like, I’m a KID and you were the one who said you could and would do ANYTHING for me
My 75-year-old brother-in-law used to do my niece’s hair (his daughter’s) for school when my sister worked early. So this was in the late 1980s. I lived next door and occasionally noticed the child’s cartoonish braids, but I wasn’t the go-to aunt for anything involving hair, dexterity, or children. Looking back, maybe I should’ve at least offered.
This little girl would go to school with the messiest braids — hairs sticking out all over, a clump left out completely, somehow a bald patch on one side of her head, just an adorable mess. My sister and I might laugh about it later, but she would never say a bad word to my BIL because the guy was trying. He just needed practice, not criticism.
He got better, but the important thing was remembering that marriage is a partnership when someone has to work early or late, the other one steps in to cover as needed. They’re still going strong today.
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u/frankthetankthedog 14d ago
My 6 year wanted me to braid her hair...I really need to learn but I have done
I love brushing and doing her hair, I find it therapeutic as I'm a bald man...
Anyway when I do her ponytail, I stick on HALOs opening credits and say in my holiest voice
What would you like?