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My daughter is bald. This is how I taught her to love herself.

mother standing with daughter who has alopecia
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In the beginning, we relied on hats to shield Rosie from unwanted stares as we hoped the hair loss would be temporary. By Paula Quinn

November 11, 2020 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

My tangled relationship with my daughter’s hair

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We are forever snarled in each other’s hair, my daughter and I, invested in the consistency of the people we know best and need most. By Leslie Kendall Dye

April 9, 2018 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why my ponytail is so important to my son

grayscale women with long blonde ponytail looking in opposite direction
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I wanted to laugh and not think about my mortality. I wanted to attend functions at my son’s school without a perfectly tied head scarf. By Kai McGee

September 21, 2017 Parenting Challenges

What happened when my daughter and I stopped straightening our hair

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For black women, wearing our hair in its natural state was—and still is, to some extent—considered defiant.
By Margaret Auguste

March 30, 2017 Culture
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