[LMB] Re Explaining stuff to kids OT:

[PAT MATHEWS]

>From: "Laura Gallagher" <celticdragonfly at gmail.com>
>>
>Anyway, that reminds me of an anecdote of my own.  I was born a
>strawberry blonde, and had rather red hair for a while as a child.
>(Sadly, it faded to a dull brown by the time I hit puberty.  I tried
>for a while post-college to dye it back to what I wanted, but
>eventually gave it up as a bad effort.)
>

When my youngest daughter was in her early teens, I realized she was 
bleaching her hair. Her explanation to me was that she'd had beautiful 
blonde hair as a child, but it was starting to darken, so she was just 
putting it back to what it was supposed to be.

I'll tell you what --- her answer made so much sense to me I had to chuclke 
and let her go on doing it. And both of her children (aged 6 and 2 
respectively)  are radiant natural blonds.

My hair has always been a very dark ash brown, but back in the mid-nineties 
started to turn silver strand by strand. The effect is actually quite 
pretty.