These are just some ideas that popped in once I finished your article, I am sure you can come up with better ones yourself.

There comes a time when all little brown girls realize that their hair is…different. It doesn’t swing and hang, it shrivels up, sticks up, and sometimes (oh the horror) it even leaves grease marks on the seat on the school bus. We are taught that the silkier our hair the better. Of couse, hair is an obsession for ALL women. But for brown girls, who I personally believe have the most unique and diverse hair, we need to be taught from a young age to embrace our coils and curls and to wear them with pride. Unfortunately, I didn’t learn this until I was 30 years old. It’s just an accessory, after all. In my life it has been a vehicle of expression, bonding, seduction and distraction. I agree with Kelly that hair does have meaning. Whatever meaning we choose to assign to it on any given day. And to me, that’s the beauty of it. My hair (just like your daughter’s) is not good, bad or indifferent, it’s mine and that alone makes it beautiful.