Technically, it's a more engaging form of roll-call. Plus, it provides students with frequent opportunities to speak in front of an audience in an informal and ungraded fashion. (Public speaking premise number one: repeated exposure yields improvement.)
A recent prompt asked students to identify one past or present fashion trend that never should have happened. The answers were fabulous: jean shorts (jorts) for men, gauchos, shoulder pads, puffy eighties bangs that curled both under and backward, the rat tail, extreme bell bottoms, leggings-as-pants, Ugg boots, black choker necklaces, the hairstyle where two small strands were pulled down as bangs to flank either side of your face, and -- of course -- the mullet.
Ah, the mullet. It's wrong on so many levels, but I have a confession. At one point in time, both of my older girls flirted with the mullet. They hit a stage where the hair in the back grew more quickly and fully than the hair in the front, and the result was an adorable child who just happens to have a mullet because their mother (me) could not quite bear the thought of a first haircut.
My youngest just might be nearing this point. I'm not ready to approach her with scissors because she has these amazing curls, and how can I bring myself to sever those precious wispy strands when she's still so small?
Until I'm ready, all I have to say is this:
Party in the back.
Oh geez. I forgot about the rat tail. I had one if you can believe that. Wow. I didn't cute Dudette's hair for a long time for the same reason. I love the curls. Why do they have to go away. :(
ReplyDeleteMy little girl has those curls too. One day she cut her hair FOR me...(ah yes, the elusive getting into scissors when no one's looking...) and I had to count to.....oh, let's say 187 before I could collect myself and say anything without freaking.
ReplyDeleteYou know what I LIKED that I think they should bring back? Snap on bracelets. You remember snap on bracelets? Pogs, too. That was a fun game.
My 11 month old daughter has a similar style...she lost the baby hair from the top of her head, but not at the bottom. She also has that same purple sleeper. :)
ReplyDeleteI think all girls flirt with the mullet... It's a rite of passage!! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh no, she doesn't have a mullet!! Her hair is so beautiful!
ReplyDelete(and the distinct lack of feathering on top makes it mullet-proof)
Aw, thanks, Michelle. I had forgotten about the feathering... you're right! Without that on top, a mullet simply is not complete.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of this sleeper.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, I remember snap on bracelets.
ReplyDeleteYikes... that scissor/personal-hair-cutting story is something else!
Funny you should post this ... last week when my 16 month old daughter was sitting in her highchair, I beckoned my husband over and whispered,"I think Vivi has a mullet!!" We both examined her as she sat quietly eating, unaware of our inspection. The consensus was that yes, she does have a mullet (looks very similar to your daughter above), but no, I am not willing to snip those gorgeous, soft, sweet-smelling, perfect-in-every-way, long-awaited curls. This is the one and only time in life when a mullet looks absolutely precious!
ReplyDeleteYou said it perfectly!
ReplyDeleteI was a victim of the huge shoulder pads. And I just remembered that my daughter cut her Dora doll's hair into a mullet. I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
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