I know I am overreacting, I am sorry I annoyed you good folks.
I’m much more calm now. She told me it was semi-permanant dye. I am not gonna kill anyone or die myself.
I think you posted this in the wrong thread.
And Pence could only taste throat because there is no evidence Trump has a brain.
I don’t grin this wide when I’m annoyed 
Hair isn’t permanent. If I were a parent (which I’m not), I’d save the stress for any permanent mods such as tattoos or piercings.
My head knows this, but my heart didn’t. I have calmed down. She keeps asking me why I care so much. I cannot answer, cause I don’t know. It is not the ‘what will people say’ thing, i couldn’t give a flying @#@!# about that. Most of our aged family are deceased so I am not worrying about that. When I figure it out I’ll let y’all know.
How is your own hair?
I know she doesn’t do it on purpose… actually, she finally almost stopped doing it… but my mother would keep trying to get me clothes she wished she could wear. My crystal ball is saying that you’re absolutely convinced if you’d happened to have your daughter’s hair you would never in a million years dye it. You might have, actually… but you’re convinced you wouldn’t. And she’s your baby but she’s not you: doing something that you wouldn’t in a million years have done kind of brings that home in a way that combined with you really, really liking her hair, hits several huge buttons at the same time. She just wanted to see what she’d look like with pink hair… (FTR, I’ve already informed my own mother that when she dies I plan on shaving my head; I’ve long wanted to see what do I look like with my hair shaved).
You might be on to something. My hair is long and light blond with some greying.
My older sister just had chemo hair loss 2 years ago. I have never seen anyone mourn their hair like she did. It affected me more than I thought, I guess. But I am vowing to get around this as quick as I can. It is not as big a deal as I thought.
On purpose or was she trying for some other color? I ask because my niece, at 15, tried go blond and ended up a shade of orange instead.
No, she wanted rose pink, and that what she has. It’s a pretty color. I am getting used to it. Her hair is naturally pale blond. As blond as you get before white. Now we are pink.
From ages 13-21, my daughter ran through the rainbow of hair color. Her naturally light blonde hair was bleached white, then bits here were blue or pink or teal, or all three at the same time. She had the full line of Manic Panic in the linen closet.
On her 21st birthday she had it dyed back to her natural blonde… and I could no longer find her in a crowd. I actually wished she’d go back to the crazy colors!
No, she doesn’t watch too much TV. Not to say she couldn’t have seen the pix somewhere on the internet. She has always loved pink. I am secretly happy it’s not green. I ain’t telling her that. Now I am a bit gun shy, afraid what she might do next! It’s really okay, I am getting used to it. Her older sibs are really ragging on me about it, they think it is hilarious that she got my goat on this. Her Daddy just grunted when he saw her this morning. He told me to swallow it up, it would be okay. So…I am.
Mom, look, I got his name tattooed on my butt! Mom, Mom?
I have never had a job that would allow me to have “unnatural” colored hair. This sometimes makes me rather jealous of people I see with beautiful “unnatural” colored hair, because I want to dye the roots of my hair blue so that it would look like my natural blond was actually dyed and my roots were growing out their natural color.
We have an old, senile, sick, blind kitty. He’s still happy, he eats, drinks, uses the litterbox and can get around well enough to always find the sunbeam on the bed.
Due to damage caused by the floods, our home was condemned and we had to move into a rental until we could buy a new place. We closed on our new home in late November, but are still in the rental and will be here until the 3rd week of January. This is because we are having some rather extensive modifications done to our new home that include tearing down of interior walls, lots of banging around and assorted strangers coming and going.
While we could move now and just keep the cats confined into our bedroom area during the day, which would be cheaper and more convenient, we think that moving an old blind cat into a new set of rooms while strangers are banging around would be too upsetting to him.
There are some people who think that we are crazy for doing this for an old cat who is probably going to die soon anyhow. Those people who felt free to tell this to our faces are not friends.
You are a good person, flatlined.
Tell her. You’re acting like one of the kids instead of the mom.
Consider this: she risks your anger and displeasure because she trusts you. I NEVER defied my parents in the slightest thing. Never talked back. Never slammed a door in anger. Not even into my 20s–not ever. Because I didn’t trust them. I felt that their regard (I hesitate to use the word “love,” although I suppose they loved me) for me was fragile and would not withstand a test. She obviously knows that your love for her is built on a foundation of rock. That is a great gift and a compliment to you. You don’t control her any more (and really, you never did). Laugh it off and tell her you’re proud of her for being her own woman!
Is she the youngest? The hair thing and the bold independence is hitting a hot button of yours that has not much to do with her.
Just my 2 cents.
Our pastor said that he heard someone in the congregation say that the problem with assuming dogs will be in heaven is then deciding which ones will go… so he leaned over the pulpit and intoned:
“I’ll tell you which dogs will be in heaven. All of them. The place is already full of dogs!”
Yes, she is my baby.
I have probably babied her too long. My older kids are fond of complaining about it. And I am proud of every thing she does. I had a REALLY hard time when she left for college, I got through the days and weeks because I know she’s happy and doing well.
I am coming to terms with her independence. This just shocked me. But we’re okay.
I’ve gotta say, when my daughter got her first tattoo right after college, half the fun was watching her mom over-over-reacting. Comments on the level of “Now you’ll NEVER get a job!”
And kids do love to parent their parents, so if you’re freakin’, let her see that, maybe even ask her why you’re doing that… let her psychoanalyze you.
You can bond over both of you realizing you’re totes whack.
While my daughter was at home we (wife and I) would pretty much let her dye it any style she wanted. I just wouldn’t let her cut it super extremely short.
Now she’s 18 and moved out of town going to college and, yep, you guessed it. She got nearly a buzz cut.
When she came to visit about a month later it drove her crazy that I didn’t react or comment on it…