Kerrie's Place

My son is also regularly addressed as a girl - I just hate cutting his hair (worry I will snip his ear by mistake ...) He also likes playing with his sister's dolls, and pushes teddy about in a trolley, but so what? don't dads take care of little ones as well as mums?! Break out those gender stereotypes I say.

Just as long as Cam only *looks* like Rio Ferdinand and doesn't actually have the same intelligence level, you'll be fine! :)
BTW - I voted for short hair based on my experience with my little brother, his hair and his sticky fingers. Shorter hair is easier to keep clean for messy children, and there would be less chance for him to get his hand stuck to his head with jam!

your boy is amazingly beautiful! I, too, know the annoyance of having people tell you that your boy is a girl etc. He wants to grow his hair out (he's 4, btw) and we're letting him, he also likes to dress in sparkly clothes and pink butterfly shoes...It's a bit less stressful because we're homeschooling, but we still get the remarks all the time, he's great about it, usually responding with some variation of "i'm a boy and it's silly that you think I'm a girl based on my long hair or the fact that I like pink, it's a pretty color you know."

Yeah, so the next time someone gives you grief, show them my son and take some of the heat off you. heh.

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I love Cam's hair - fro or no, braided or bobbled, he's a gorgeous little scrap. I do lean to the fro tho' as it reminds me of when i was a child in Jamaica, happy memories. Wishing your kids lots of those too. Much more important than what their hair did or didn't do. :)

I say good for you for busting out of those gender roles. Your kids will grow up to identify themselves as worthy human beings, not simply "boy" or "girl." More power to you!

I think that I voted to lop off the hair because I tend to go with the easiest solutions. As long as you're both happy, what does it matter? no one in their right mind is going to think that you're trying to turn him into a girl.

I think it's all in what you, and he, are comfortable with. I don't braid my son's hair because I don't know how to on other people. We keep it in a manageable fro, trim a little off every once in a while and comb through it a couple of times a week. Otherwise, it's free to do what it wants. As a mixed race person, I guess I figure we already look different, why not go for the gusto! Both of your children are adorable.

I would kill for those bobbles!

I spent most of my life with unconventional hair. I had very short hair as a child, so short that a neighbor of 12 years thought I was a boy the whole time. By the time I got to high school, I was shaving it all off. I was taught very early on to be my own person and never feel any pressure to look like other people. I mean, I've been pressured, but I just ignore it, so I think you are doing something good for him. Plus, could he be any cuter??!!

As I tell me daughter, "it is my job to brush it and your job to say OW." Enjoy that hair, my kids were shiny bald until about 3.

Your kids, your decision. I think Cameron looks great with big hair, but as his mum, it's totally your call.

While I'm commenting, my son is three years old and I still haven't cut his hair. In fact, my husband and I plan to let him decide whether to cut his hair when he gets older. At this point it's too long for an afro, it hangs too much, so I either braid it or brush it back into a ponytail like Ice-T.
People mistake him for a girl occasionally, but I know how to gently correct them.