Well, my baby girl (aged 6) wanted "pretty locs" after I showed her a picture of a young girl with locs about a year ago. She's been natural all her life (of course, she's just 6) and I usually kept her hair in puffs or braids. I provided guidance, but I allowed her to choose to loc or not ... we had regular discussions about locing her hair, so we decided to go for it a little over 4 months ago. We're both SO glad she did it ... They fit her so well. She loves that she can "do" her own hair (she likes to make ponytails or pin her locs up, etc.). She loves being able to literally get up and go in the morning and they look so DOGGONE cute on her!! It wasn't as difficult a decision as one would assume ... I haven't had one negative comment come my way on our decision to loc (I think people get the sense that they better not try me ) and she's had no negative comments towards her. We loc'd her hair with about 2.5 months left in the school year (she was in kinder) and she came home saying that all her friends (of various racial backgrounds) loved her hair and wanted to touch it. I'm so glad she received positive feedback. You know how kids can be, but I think she's comfy with her hair enough to not care IF someone did say something negative. She sees her hair as unique and pretty - as she's the only child in her school with locs. Like others have said, it's just hair ... there are a LOT worse things people do and allow their children to do to their hair than locing. I won't focus on warning her about life with locs (how short her hair may be if we cut them or how long it'll take to comb them out, etc), as children with relaxers or weaves/extensions aren't warned about how their hair is worn. Whether she chooses to keep her locs, comb them out, cut them ... it'll be for her to decide. Her hair doesn't define her, it's just a punctuation at the end of her sentence.

~NeeC1

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I felt like such a hypocrite when I was relaxed, because I would tell my girls that their (natural) hair was beautiful; meanwhile, I was relaxing mine ... When I decided to BC and join their team, they LOVED it. To this day, my baby girl likes to help me twist my hair ... My hair being natural, I feel, has played a large part in her accepting her own natural hair/locs ... We are beautiful together!

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With all due respect, why not? Yes, she's 10, but something as simple as making a decision on how her hair looks is a good start to her becoming a responsible decision maker. If she's adamant about locing her hair, that's a good time to teach her about decision-making and how it not only affects the here and now, but the tomorrow and thereafter as well. I feel some parents make entirely too many decisions for their children, which in turn, leads to a young adult who can't function under simple peer pressure. They can't walk around with a "WWMD?" bracelet (What Would Mommy Do?") forever. In the each, to end his/her own ... I can't TELL someone what to do with their children, just as no one can tell me ... but I feel there should be some wiggle room for children to learn to make decisions and reap the rewards/consequences associated with them. IMO.

~NeeC1

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Good idea. From the time my baby girl decided she wanted locs to the time we did it (about 4 months), we spent time looking at pictures and videos and talking about how locs would be different than her loose hair. She was THRILLED that we wouldn't have to sit through long detangling sessions once she loc'd! Kids, I tell you. But, it also gave her time to notice other people's locs - it's like once we decided to go for it, loc'd heads just popped out out of nowhere. It didn't hurt that her uncle (my 24 year old brother) also has locs.

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I am hoping that she still wants her dreads when these 6 mnths r up because its so much healthier. Shes a very strong minded lil girl snd when she has her mind set on something she sticks by it...so i kno she will still want them. Her hair is under her shoulder but her new growth is about an inch and half long because she refuses a perm. I'm almost ready to jus do the dreads because the perm hair is breakn thin at the natural hair...perms break her hair so i believe the dreads will b better. I'm pretty strict on alotta things wit my girls but something like hair i tend to b more leniant..becuz jus like it was said we r not our hair...n its been since she 6 she wanted dreads so i thnk we gonna go ahead n do em n if she change her mind hey its jus hair right...i appreciate the feedback ladeez


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So what happened?

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She decided to jus go natural...and she said she'll see about this summer

Why not try yarn braids just to see if she likes how they look on her as well as being able to moniter if she gets bores with them easily.


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My son wanted locks when he was 4. He hated getting a hair cut or getting his hair cut. We allowed his hair to lock. He is 12 still locked. They have been cut 3 times. He still loves them.

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I'm going to loc my son's hair. I was wondering what's the youngest age that they can be started.