Is Your Baby Wearing a Toupee?

Hello folks, let’s chat…I happened upon a Straight Running Crazy development earlier that I must share with y’all so I can file it away and try not to think about it again. At least that’s the goal.

I’ll get right to it. You can now buy hair pieces for your baby on the Internet. Let me be perfectly clear, I’m not talking about helping children who are losing their hair in a serious health battle. I’m talking about mothers who are so uncomfortable with their female babies’ little bald heads that they’re willing to dress the poor things up in tiny headbands with attached bangs. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Someone has serious hair issues here, and it’s not the wee one. For the record, I feel like I’ve earned the right to opine mother/daughter hair issues. I have some experience here, albeit on an entirely different level.

I actually sent my grown daughter a text earlier, asking for permission to tell y’all her preteen fixation with hair bumps. I’ve now been officially released to reminisce about those days. Hopefully, I won’t have nightmares later from dredging up these memories, but here we go.

We went through a season around here when my preteen daughter found it impossible to put her hair in a ponytail and leave it alone if she found the slightest bump on the top of her head. There was no reasoning with her on the bump issue. If her hair wasn’t melted butter smooth she’d jerk that ponytail out and start over, and over, and over, again.  At the time, I was also Jessica’s extremely intense basketball coach. I once found my entire team on the floor warming up for the game, while my own sweet daughter was still in the dressing room battling those dreaded bumps. Let’s just say a notorious hair battle ensued.

Frankly, I think infant hair pieces are straight running crazy, but I’m willing to admit something. Had there been a preteen hair piece option in Jessica’s bump years, I may have walked on the wild side myself.

Hugs, Shellie