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My 10 year old son has been growing his hair out for about 2 years now. We went at it slowly at first hoping he would decide to cut it but he didn't. Even though it still not my favorite I am proud of him since here in Utah hardly any boys have long hair.
I also wanted to thank you for unknowingly helping me to get him to wear a ponytail. He finally started wearing it back about three weeks ago thanks in part to my being able to show him pictures and comments about guys wearing ponies here on your site. I never thought I would spend an afternoon teaching my son to put his hair in a ponytail. And now he loves it, and i prefer it out of his face.
Any way just wanted to thank yo guys for being here and he wanted to put a picture of his ponytail on your site.
Jennifer
And the ponytail in the picture is his own work
Very nice!
He does have some very thick and healthy hair. It would be a shame to hide it under a generic "school-boy" hair cut.
- Oren
First of all, thank you for allowing him to grow his hair!! It's wonderful when parents allow their children to decide for themselves how they want their hair.
His hair is just amazing! It is incredibly thick and lustrous. He truly has a mane to be proud of.
Jennifer,
Thanks for encouraging your son to decide for himself how he wants to wear his hair and how he wants to express himself. Being a longhair is part of his identity. For him to be forced to cut it would be a self-mutilation. You have helped your son to grow in self esteem. You are doing your son a favor.
He has an amazing head of hair. It's thick and rich in volumne.
May we see more pics as the months go by in order to see his progress?
Please let him know that I'm proud of my little longhaired bro. Good job on the ponytail.
God bless you all!
Raymond
One tie is sufficent at that length.
It's not a look I personally like, but some people go for a segmented tail. I have a couple customers at work who do this.
Its great that your letting your son grow his hair out and do what he wants with it, there are far too many parents who discourage letting their children do what they want with their appearance in general.
I myself was forced to have short hair as a kid... I'd usually just shave it bald to be done with it and make my dad happy. But now that I'm able to I've kept my hair long and love it!
Wow! I only wish my parents were as open minded as you're being!
It would be great to see pictures if he decides to keep growing it!
Hi Jennifer,
It's refreshing to see posts such as yours:)You are doing your son a valuable service by letting him make decisions about himself at such a young age.That surely will help him build self esteem that will carry him into adulthood.There is nothing wrong with a boy having his hair long if HE chooses to wear it that way.
There was a post just below yours that linked a newspaper article about parents who decided for themselves to make their kids have longhair.In those cases it kind of backfired as the kids wanted to have their hair cut short.So the moral of the story is to let people decide for themselves how they want the world to see them:)Personally I'll go for the longhair:)Cheers
Mark
You are a very good mom in allowing your son the freedom to express himself the way he would like when it comes to his hair. Thank you for sharing this with us.
With all of the horrible things going on in the world of today, it is truly shocking the number of parents avoiding what needs to be addressed/corrected so that humans may live in peace, and instead getting all upset at just how a son or daughter would like to style their hair. Alas, they just do not seem to grasp the big picture.
Nice posting and thank you again.
Justin~
Hi Justin,
Like you say, there is a reason the world is at war and it is all centered around control of others. The control of the money supply and what is considered accepted legal tender by today's standards is the main tool in dealing with how the world is controlled socially and monetarily. Advancing technological gadgetry is also a method of how the New World Order wishes to control society. This is one reason I hate closed circuit television placed on our streets, thermal imaging and satellites watching us, etc. Having privacy is necessary to being free. I know this is getting on another topic however we're discussing the issues of being free so...
Jeffrey
So true and most shocking is that the average person on the street simply does not know what is going on. They have absolutely no conception as to what "real Money" is (Silver and Gold) and are kept content just as long as their little lives orbit around Cell Phones, iPods, Computor Games, Movies and of course who is going to win "duh game." But just wait for the break in the food chain which WILL be coming up. When a person suddenly has no food,their banks doors have been closed, safe deposit boxes ransacked and the currency deemed worthless paper, suddenly all of the petty things are no longer have any meaning as life means something else. How to survive and learn to barter is a lesson I am afraid will be too late for for most people. Time is quickly running out.
Justin~
Hi Justin,
I see you're awake at the switch! Glad to know more and more of us are around. In all this time I never owned any of these things, not even an MP3 player or a cell phone. My thought is if it doesn't contain a wire or battery solely to generate power, then it's not safe for your health! When dealing with health, this is a revelant issue to growing long hair too. I fear gadgets powered by cell phone masts and towers and their consequences on our health.
It's interesting you mention "safe deposit boxes being ransacked". I was thinking this: in what good is it to have a vault in a bank? I realize that coined gold, silver, et cetera is the real legal tender. I don't keep paper currency any longer. You have to think what good is having a bank vault when it's no more secure in these times than valuables being left in your house? What I do is keep a little in both so there's always something to fall back on, you know?
Jeffrey
Hey Jeffrey
There is much I could say, but here just would not be the correct place. Suffice it to say, anyone with an ounce of intelligence could at the moment see a total collapse looking at us straight in the face. We are now sliding fast and it is too late. Empires rise, empires thrive, and empires fail. SOMEBODY has to be living during any of these 3 sections. People reading this that laugh, see how funny it is a year from now.........or less, when the food chains begin breaking to the stores and people are out in the streets hungry and starving. It could NEVER happen in the USA??? Of course it could and is going to. I am so thankful that I was born when I was.
I will say no more.
Justin~
ps: You can always email me on my You Tube channel and are welcome to if you would like to Jeffrey. How to find me? Type in "Prelude from the Heavens." (My newest composed piece.) You will find me that way.
Hi Justin,
I love to barter by the way! Bartering these days is easier to come upon than people having money! More trade can be done this way and quicker.
Jeffrey
Kudos to your son for growing his hair long. He's not alone... here's a picture of my 10-yr-old and 2-yr-old sons taken last summer.
Best,
Val
Hey Validus,
Thanks for sharing the pic of your two sons. It is great that you are allowing and encouraging your boys to grow out their hair. I hope that they will continue to choose to let their hair grow longer. I would like to see a family pic.
God bless you!
Raymond
Thanks, Raymond :)
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Greetings, Jennifer.
First of all kudos to you for letting your son grow his hair long to show his individuality.
Second, I am absolutely floored at how thick his hair is. His is among the thickest hair I have ever seen in my entire life.
Looking good.
Scott
Hi Jennifer,
First of all, I would like to commend you on allowing your son to grow such an awesome head of hair, and I only wish there were more parents like you! Also, your son's hair is truly outstanding, with such shine and in perfect condition, and I cannot get over the thickness of his ponytail! I hope he keeps it growing!
David
Hi David,
I love the thickness of his ponytail too. It helps being young!
Jeffrey
Hi Jennifer,
Nice photograph of your son! He looks like a handsome fellow. Out of curiousity, what made your son decide to grow his hair? Did he see it on someone he met and liked it? Did he see it on someone he admired or was it something he instinctively knew he wanted?
As for me, when I saw other boys wearing long hair, I decided then to give it a try but instinctively I knew I always wanted it this way and here's why: As young as being in nursery school, I saw a girl wearing a long ponytail and seemed to admire how beautiful it looked. At that point I knew I also wanted to have the same look for myself. I realize she was a girl but was convinced that I really wanted this long hair regardless of my male gender (incase you're wondering I'm straight).
I also started growing my hair long at age 10, yet unfortunately didn't have the support of my family. Now however no one in my family gives my long hair a second thought.
Another thing that can be hard is living in a community without male long hairs or people that appreciate it on men. I live in New York City but in a closed minded suburban community, far from the action. I stand out in the community (people have told me this to my face, even saying that "I didn't belong here") and really am not the ob ject of interest to most people but it's not just my long hair, it's on many cultural fronts that people wish to not associate with me. A good idea might be to move somewhere that is long hair friendly (the west coast) as it may be a better life for your son. I know moving is a drastic step to consider but realize too Utah doesn't have the types of problems NYC has either. People are closer to one another out there. Utah is much more relaxed and friendly as a whole. However, do let your son have his hair as he wants. Don't let local people pressure or force you or your son to change. People respect those who are comfortable and confident with themselves as that proves self assurance. Do remember that! The world is in need of leaders, we have more than enough brain dead followers!
Imagine this dealing with my personal circumstance: politically liberals outnumber conservatives 10 to 1 where I live and I'm a conservative. I like Middle Eastern culture and yet am living in a community made up of European Jews and Far-Eastern Orientals. I live in an area where short haired men vastly outnumber long haired men. Most women in my (mostly old age) community are short haired too (blah for me). Yep, it gets lonely out here and with the economy as it is, moving isn't really a good option yet.
Long hair on boys and men was the typical standard over 200 years ago and back (people wore wigs too). Perhaps more people in our time are deciding to go back to our traditional look of having long hair on boys and men? It could be a yearning for people wanting freedom, their individuality and to be close to the natural world, wanting to go back to the past? Just somethings to think about.
Jeffrey
I had a relatively similar situation with my family not initially being supportive of me growing my hair out. However I was 19, and soon to be 20 before I decided to grow my hair.
I dated a former lonhaired man when I lived on the west coast of Canada for awhile. I saw pictures of him when he had long hair and it made me curious as to what I would look like with long hair.
It was not until December of 2010 when my mother finally became accepting of my hair, saying I have beautiful hair while we were having supper in a Restaurant in Ottawa! I will be 27 in 10 days, so its been a long 7 years getting their support!
Hi Jennifer,
I can't tell you how good it is to hear of a parent like you allowing your son to do with his hair as he wishes. When I was a kid, even well until my late teen years, my dad forbid long hair on me and my 4 brothers. I was born in 1953; so society was a bit different back then from what it is nowadays -- back then, "long" hair on males was when it started covering the ears, falling into a guy's eyes, or touching or starting to cover a man's shirt collar in back. The Beatles started to change all of that in '64, thank goodness, and then later came the political upheaval of the late '60s and early '70s of course (when shoulder-length hair on males gradually became less and less of a "shock" to see out in public)... But to make a long story short about my own hair history, I had to leave my dad's home at age 18 in order to grow my own hair out (and we're just talking about just a slight bit long-ER back then -- not the extreme length that I have nowadays)...
A huge CONGRATS to you, Jennifer! You are doing the right thing, because it sounds like this is what your son wants to do in his own heart and mind -- which is exactly what I used to wish I could do with my own hair when i was his age (but was not allowed to do so because of an over-controlling and ultra-conservative father who believed in only the military-short hairstyles on males).
- Ken in San Francisco
This just shows that your son is much more mature than most kids his age. It takes guts to grow hair at that age and withstand stupid immature little kids calling you a 'girl' and whatnot.
And it's great to see a parent support this for once becuase it's our parents that feed us crap about long haired guys and how it's unprofessional and dirty. If only I had the vision to start growing my hair earlier...
Thank You everybody for all of the compliments, they meant a lot to my son. He has been worried about wearing his hair in a ponytail at school, but the compliments have given him a little more courage.
I wouldn't say I have encouraged him exactly, but there are worse things that he can do. I much prefer it short myself, but if it is a big deal I will help him take care of it. it has certainly been a unique experience to help my son learn to brush his hair or tie a ponytail etc. Watching him toss his hair back and gather it into a pony still makes me laugh inside to thin about, its my son not either of is sister!
And to the one that said something about the two hair ties: he normally wears just one but I put two or three ties on it when he plays basketball and he wanted to wear his basketball ponytail that day, and who cares any way.
Jennifer.
His hair is so healthy and the thickness is amazing!
Like others, I would like to say how great it is that you're allowing him to have his hair the way that makes him happy. I wish my mother would have been the same on this matter...even now, years later at the age of 20 she still tries to 'convert' me back to the unnatural short hair.
I'd also like to say I'm inspired by your son for him having the courage to grow longhair as a boy and a young one at that...it's not easy to stick out in the crowd.
Take Care!
Hey I'm 12 and thinkin bout growin my hair long but I was wonderin how many inches long his hair is and could you upload a pic with it not in a ponytail? Thnx sooo much!
this is a suspicious post!!!!!!
Yeah, but he could be 12. Nobody else knows you're a dog on the Internet, woof! (0ops, that was a giveaway!)