![]() ![]() “Their hair is not allowed to be excessively spiky either.” This mum says that the school’s hair style rules say hair can be no shorter than a “number two” (razor comb size) on the sides, and, preferably, one comb-size longer on the top. One of them has already been dragged out in front of the school as an example of how a boy destined for failure wears his hair,” the mum of two teen sons says.Īnd forget cutting costs and shaving your boys’ heads. “My sons claim to be anarchists but you should seem them panic when they forget to go to the barber and their hair curls on their collar. Parents at one Catholic school in Sydney says boys are named and shamed and branded “hippies” in school assembly if their hair reaches below their collars. Plenty of other mums have school hair horror stories. “It felt like they had the priority wrong, that it was more about the image than the education.” “I felt like (the teacher) was trying to make an example out of me,” Dominic said at the time. Dominic had put in hundreds of hours of study to impress his parents and do well in the exam after struggling with the subject earlier in the year. In November last year, 17-year-old Dominic Kiehn from All Saints Catholic Senior College in Casula, Sydney, was penalised 20 per cent of his marks on his chemistry exam after he showed up for the test with an undercut and stubble. Besides, being a baby is probably the only time someone can get away with a really goofy haircut, unless of course they grow up to be an entrepreneur with the wealth of Donald Trump.Paris Saint-Germain's Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic is upset, too.Īustralian schools can also get a bit sniffy about hairstyles. It won't be long before the baby grows into a moody teen and starts coloring and cutting their hair in the bizarre name of "fashion" anyway, so parents might as well have some fun while they are in control. Nothing looks creepier than a pint-size cue ball staring up at you calling you " mama" or " baba." If you ask me, it's really no weirder than having a child who looks like they went to get a crew cut only to have the batteries in the hair clippers die halfway through. "Son, if you don't clean your room I'm going to give you another awful haircut," parents no doubt threaten.Īesthetically speaking, I get the feeling that most Chinese parents don't like shaving all the hair off their babies' heads. Basically, it's to reinforce to children that their body, hair, skin and everything else comes from their parents, and they shouldn't do any harm to it. Briefly put, it's a place that is sacred and vulnerable and needs a hairy layer of protection.Ī more academic reasoning for these bizarre haircuts is to teach kids filial piety. ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you think about it, a small braid at the back of a toddler's head actually makes it easier for would-be kidnappers, who need only to grab hold of the hairy leash and be on their way.Ī pseudo-scientific explanation is that our ancestors believed the top of the human head is where spirits reside, thus it is the entrance/exit of a baby's soul. Apparently, evil spirits dare not snatch a child with uneven patches of hair on his or her head. Some grandmothers will tell you the tufts of hair left on the head help ward off ghosts or evil spirits. The most common styles include leaving a peach- or heart-shaped patch of hair close to the forehead and/or leaving a thin strand of hair at the back of the head, like a rat's tail. Tradition tells us babies in China should get a haircut after they are three-months-old, with some hair left longer on top. They couldn't be scientifically reliable anyway, as most of our rituals and traditions are based on nothing more than superstition. Unfortunately, none of these explanations seem credible. There are too many different stories regarding why Chinese babies have their hair cut after one month or three months or 100 days. Why do Chinese parents shave their babies' heads a month after they are born? Also, why do some babies have bizarre haircuts, such as shaved with tufts of hair at the front or on the sides? Is this merely a fashion statement or is there something more to it?Ī: I did some research on the Internet, but alas it wasn't helpful. Confused about China? Having trouble making sense of Beijing and its people? Our guru, Auntie Wang, is here to bridge the cultural divide with candid answers to your most challenging questions about life in the capital. ![]()
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