Damaging your child's hair in the name of fashion

Sometime in July, I took these pictures of a friend's child, just to make a point. The girl was about three years old at the time of this shot. I have even branded the picture, because it is a child, and the source can always be traced to me.

Anyway, see the pictures below.

You see. This child obviously has no hair on her head. What the stylist did was to pick any available strand that was lengthy enough to be fixed into the extensions. In my opinion, the whole thing looked a mess. I feel these kinds of practices are not good for the hair of our children. The health of the girl's hair is not so great, and the parents were allowing it to be worsened with this practice. What is to say that it is not even this that worsened the girl's condition.

Ten days later, as a joke, another friend uploaded this picture of her five month old baby's head (I couldn't bring myself to call it hair) on her DP. The joke sure worked cos it was really funny. But I still believe it is bad child hair practice.

You can see the lines along which the hair was picked, and put into extensions.

All I could say for these two scenarios was "Is it by force?"

If a child has slow hair growth, which is not uncommon, the hair should be allowed to rest, and in a few years, it will sort itself out. And if one suspects a disorder, please see a trichologist (Doctor of Hair and Scalp). This is better than stressing the child very few hair strands and forcing it into extensions. It would only make things worse.

N:B: Last week, my friend uploaded another picture of her baby, and she now has hair all over her head.