Don’t worry about it. Take lots of pictures and when his child is piercing his cheek or tattooing his schlong and Daddy’s underwear is in a bunch, just pull out the pictures.
I watched, ’ Austin Powers, the Spy who shagged me’ and his son, Scott has pretty cool hair color: black with dark blue streaks. That I liked.
Don’t worry about it. In a few years, he’ll probably have nothing left up there to dye.
This might work:
Blue hair and a pierced tongue, huh?
I wonder what your kids will do to freak YOU out.
Maybe one of them will cut a leg off and say, “Look Mom, it’s the pirate look!”
Or, you can lock him up in the attic for 5 years.
Don’t sweat it, honey. My kid went through that stuff. Used to drive me nuts, but it was the wife that said, “leave him be.”
He’s in first year Law School at Queen’s. Go figure.
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Ok, I had to go out for a good while yesterday, so now I can get back to answering ya’ll.
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#00:The Fool,
No I don’t live in a bomb shelter, and yes I know kids have been doing it for years.
Never mind my purity test, I’m not my mom, I am his mom.
We aren’t talking about me here, we’re talking about my pride and joy , my baby boy,
(don’t tell him I said that, as he and T. Lion both love to remind me he’s not a baby anymore ).
So I guess you are right !
Why does everyone think I am the type to whip someone’s ass ? I’m a sweet, loveable,
kind, motherly, innocent (never mind the purity test, it was rigged I tell ya) type of woman. Just ask me, I’ll tell you it’s true.
Neil,
I’m a Mom, it’s my job to complain !
And son is a good kid, never been arrested, never been to court, execpt to testify in somelse’s trial.
Sunbear,
Hmm, I don’t know, I went through several phase’s as a kid, but most of them involved sex,drugs,booze and rock-n-roll.
Dianes daughter sounds like a nice girl who is open to trying new things.
TennHippie,
No he could not be any of those things, or he could , but only if he was able to after I got out of prison, and he got out of the coma I would have beaten him into had he tried it !
:sniffle, sniffle:: No one understands , he’s my baby !
Voguevixen,
Won’t work, he knows better. The wildest I’ve ever gone is blonde.
Shirly Ujest,
Now THAT idea I like, where’s my camera ? Between those and the baby pictures I will have this kid till the day I die !
Wally,
OK, but what will I do when my Mom kills ME, because of this ?
Truely folks, he is a good kid, but I still don’t understand . He has decided to go with a really really dark blue. Not shocking neon,
there is something to be grateful for.
Ayesha - Lioness
There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)
Ay, ah, the things kids do for attention.
Do an experiment for me. Tell your son that my great gramma colors her hair blue & ask if that is what he was trying to duplicate.
Naw, not really.
It is more like an evolution into the person that she is now. She really hasn’t changed styles so much as she has progressed into something that is more HER style.
She has kept certain things from all of her phases. She still wears some of her goth jewelry and clothes, she still has multiple piercings from her punk days, and she still wears the bandana scarf and “political statement” t-shirts, etc. However, she doesn’t fit into any particular look (although she looks more “normal” than the last few years), she just looks like “C”. She is pretty independent and doesn’t need to fit into any particular clique.
After I wrote my first post, she pierce her ears again (this makes 7 each) and made an appointment for her eyebrow. She is trying to talk me into letting her do her tongue, but that one will take some convincing.
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KITTEN
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.
Re: Kids getting attention.
By the length of this thread, it would appear to work.
I just had a flashback to when I was in high school. I wanted to get some clothes that I just knew my mom would hate. I wanted a really short miniskirt, some fishnet tops (to wear over tshirts!) and a dog chain, to wear as a belt. I went shopping, and I got some of this stuff, and I put it on. My mom took one look at me, and said…
“Gee, those colors look really good on you!”
So much for shocking my mom. To this day, I don’t know if she actually liked the outfit, or was simply trying to say “Give up trying to shock me, kid. I grew up in the Sixties.”
Well he did it. Son just left for work looking like he has a smurf on his head.
He has offered to let me use his dye to put blue high lights in my hair.
Somehow I don’t think that will work real well. But I may think about it, just as soon as I get time.
Ayesha - Lioness
There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)
I did it with purple dye. Was not a good look for me altho I loved it on the person I first saw it on. I think the big difference was the 30 years between our ages. Hers made her look exotic, mine made me look like a grandmother. It lasted as long as it took to bleach it back out again. =)
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things.” --Edgar Degas
It’s getting harder and harder to shock parents. Hell, I grew my hair out and peirced my ear, and my dad went and did the same. Some parents…
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Just a quick update.
Son got sent home from work and was told not to come back with blue hair.
He is in the bathroom redyeing his hair back to something normal as I type this.
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t lion
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I knew a guy who was a member of the “hair color of the month” club. One night he came to work (we worked together at a bar) with his hair dyed bright red and wearing a tan t-shirt and a little white yarmulke/beanie like Mel used to wear on “Alice.” He looked like a kitchen match.
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Da Chef
Wow, all you people either had really shallow friends or didn’t understand them. I don’t know anyone who based their sense of fashion on wanting to “shock” or “freak out” anyone–least of all their parents. What is so hard to understand about personal appearance? If your son wants blue hair, maybe it is because HE WANTS BLUE HAIR. I have a blue sweater, and I like it. Why is blue HAIR so different? For the record, I’ve gone extreme red and bald, but never blue, BUT I have considered blue several times, and it still might happen some day.
Don’t belittle his sense of individuality by assigning ulterior motives to it, and especially don’t try to take credit for it via the you-are-doing-this-to-shock-me route. Just accept that the kid wants to try a new look. Sheesh!
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I dyed my hair red over the summer. It turned to an orange hue after a couple weeks and looked (to me) really cool. I just recently had blonde highlights put in my hair. My parents about keeled over when I did the red dye-job. I was thinking of going blue for my next color, but I think I’ll wai tuntil after christmas. I do it cause I can, and not because I want to make a stupid fashion statement or to piss of my parents. Its my way of expressing myself without getting pierced or inked.
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Ayesha:
You have now officially turned into your mother.
I’ve never had the gumption to try the blue hair. (I’ve had bleached, red and black.) Did he go to a hairdresser or did he do it himself? Is another dye just going to cover up the blue, or is the blue coming out?
And why does the school care?
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H. de Livry
Hooo-booy - could I tell some stories. . .
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KITTEN
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.
Arnold,
Thanks alot ! I had hoped I was only thinking I was turning into my mother.
It’s not the school that sent him home, it was his boss.
He dyed it black, that covered up the blue.
Now he’s talking about bleaching it blond again. I told him to wait at least 2 months, just to let his scalp get over the 3 dye’s in a week trauma.
Ayesha - Lioness
There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)
What color is his hair originally? If it’s light colored, tell him to let it grow out for a while from the black. Black hair with blonde roots is very nice looking, and the opposite of the usual blonde with dark roots.
When I was a tad younger (teaching fellow in grad school now so I can’t do this kind of thing anymore-- supposed to be a good example or something?) I dyed my hair quite a bit. Entertained the older people in the office-- they’d come by my cubicle to see what the color of the month was. My mom, when I would see her, would pretend to be very annoyed by it, by secretly amused (perhaps like you are deep inside, Ayesha, living as a 90’s kid vicariously…), which always struck me as odd. She has dyed her hair consistently since she was 20 or so (first to be stylishly blonde in the 60’s, then reds, now brunnette to cover advancing grey) so her disapproval was strange, I thought. I thought, on the other hand, that people of her age group didn’t do enough with their hair. If you want to dye your hair, why a color that comes naturally to people anyway? That has a taste of deception/envy (you want people to think that “you’re really blonde”), while a completely unnatural color has the virtue of being very honest. Everyone knows you weren’t born blue. If you want an artificial color, why not choose the one you really want?
Another two cents, regarding the notion of “rebellion” here (I’m not trying to be inflammatory here, I’m just musing, really): Is insisting that everything a kid does which the parent doesn’t agree with for some reason a way for the parent to assert more control or sense of influence over the kid than they warrant? This may sound counter-intuitive, but by doing that the parent inserts themselves into aspects of the kid’s will that may really have nothing to do with them. Maybe things like this are elements of a person’s creativity/ expression, etc., and are in fact really a reaction to the parent, sometimes. I think sometimes a parent’s/ institutions notion of “rebellion” is just a way of bringing aspects of life which they feel are out of their control back into their sphere of influence.
(above: in third to last line insert “not”, as in “not really a reaction”. Oops.)
Eh, I say don’t worry about it. As long as he’s a good kid it should be fine. I know a girl who shaved the sides of her head and gave herself one of those 2 foot mohawks that was described before. She’s in her 30s now and guess what? She doesn’t do that anymore! 
I consider it a phase. My mom and I argue about it. She says that appearance is important, and while I agree with that, I think that it depends. If he goes to a funeral or something doesn’t he dress appropriately (rhetorical question)?
Greg will have to try some other way to shock me. If he ever comes up to me and says, “mom, I want pink hair” I’ll do it for him. May as well do it professionally instead of having him go get it somewhere else (and make sure he doesn’t use kool-aid. If you’re going to dye your hair stay away from that stuff!).
MaryAnn
The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.