I know, totally not true, but that's what people think. I first noticed this in Little Rock. The moms who had girls with really cute hair were automatically labeled as moms who could do it all. And how could they not be! If a toddler has cute, perfectly done hair, it would take a genius to do it, so that mom must be wonderful! I vowed then that my girls would have their hair done all the time.
This mostly works. I have to do their hair anyway, since they all have cowlicks and hair that grows directly into their faces unless I do something to keep it out of their eyes. I can do cute pony-tails and stuff, but I do not have prissy girls. I do not have girls who WANT to keep their hair looking cute. This is a bit of a problem on Sunday mornings. If I do their hair at 9am, and we don't leave for over an hour and a half, lots of things can happen!
Here is Calli, posing for a picture. she has been running around, but her hair is still presentable. A bit wispy, but good enough.
Marian is in a phase where she only wants one ponytail in the back. She eventually will have little wisps all around her face. It doesn't matter how much mousse I use. I refuse to use hairspray yet. 
And here is my little stinker. This is what I found her doing when I came back downstairs after getting myself dressed. She was hiding in the cushions! Do you know what that does to Ponytails?!! 
Yes, so pleased with herself and having a very good time while her sisters laughed at her and giggled at her silliness.
And then Marian wanted in on a picture as well. Good thing they are such cutie pies!
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Use gel it works a lot better than mouse. Why do you not like hairspray? Although it may not help anyway those wispy's in my girls hair just love to come out.
Ok, so I tend to look at pictures and than read, So not true on the cute girl hair thing. I'm sorry!!!! You are an excellant mom. That's not saying your girl's hair doesn't look cute. I'm just saying all those mom's who have the crazy cute hair-do's aren't perfect.
I must be a terrible mom cuz I'm lucky if Samantha even gets her hair brushed. And teeth? Forget about it! If I don't sit on my kids all morning, nothing gets done. It's very frustrating. I think your theory is right though, I think that people do equate cute hair with good mommyship. Oh well, I just have to know that I do my best! lol Your girls are adorable!!!
I love the comment by "Jen". Ha. After we brought Grace home from China, Tillie's hair was down to her bottom and I was so not adjusted to being the mother of three yet, and a couple of days would go by and I would realize that I hadn't brushed her hair and I didn't feel like it. It was right after that that I talked her into cutting her hair to her chin and she could brush it all by herself. I am a mom who likes to do my daughter's hair, but I realized that this was only a reality with one daughter. I don't know how you can do more than one. Grace hates for her hair to be done and luckily for me, she has such horrible cowlicks, but they are cowlicks that pull her hair away from her face. I don't know what I will do when her hair gets much longer though. She acts like I am torturing her when I try to put her hair in cute piggies.
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