Down and Out and Mean Kids

After the banded hairstyle I took all of the hair done, spritz it with water with shea oil mixed in, detangled, and added Bee Mine Curly Butter for an all natural style. Unfortunately, my little one has decided that her natural curls are "ugly" and did not want to wear her hair in this style to school. Since we did not have time to change the style, I sent her to school and we had a long talk about how special her hair is and how so many people wish they had curls as pretty as hers. When I picked her up from school, her hair was much bigger and frizzier which I can only assume was a result of her self-consiously trying to smooth her hair down, which as parents of 3C kids know too well, only makes the hair bigger. She told me that a little boy laughed at her hair. I asked her if it could have been for another reason and she told me it was definitely at her hair. I thought maybe she was just imagining what she had feared earlier that morning, but the next day her teacher confirmed that the little boy did laugh at her hair and that my daughter began crying and stayed distraught for most of the afternoon. As a mom, I want to have a nice long chat with the offending kid, but I know this may be the first of many slights to come, and I won't be able to take each mean kid aside for the rest of her life. Later that night, her dad taught her that famous phrase "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" She repeated the phrase the next day before she went into the classroom with natural hair again, this time with a side ponytail at the front of her head and down and curly in the back. I still haven't convinced her that her curls are cute, but she can't stop looking in the mirror whenever she has cornrows or braids. I'll keep working on this.........