Happy Muslim Mama: Little Miss Pigtails

Little Lady and I have a constant battle over her hair. I want to keep cutting it off in the belief that this will mean she will have better hair when she is older. She wants to grow it in the beleif that she cannot be a princess or mermaid without long hair.I have been meaning to get her hair cut but just haven’t got round to it with the result that her hair was long enough to get into stubby pigtails for the first time. She was over the moon telling everyone about her braids including her grandparents in Pakistan. They stuck straight out vertically from her head till the evening when they finally started to droop.

(She’s still getting a haircut next weekend, I just won’t tell her till then).