Jackie Morgan MacDougall's 6-year-old daughter Lucy begged the mother to let her cut her hair. MacDougall refused.
"She's just so darn cute with this beautiful hair," says Morgan MacDougall. "But she's very secure in herself and who she is, and she didn't want the hair."
After six months the mother realized that she wouldn't let her daughter have a short haircut — something as innocent as can be — because of her own insecurities about her appearance.
"I thought, why am I doing this? It's not for her," she says. "How do I teach my only daughter not to look the way that other people tell her when that's what she's doing for me?"
MacDougall realized that if she taught her daughter to care what others thought of her she would be sending the wrong message. When MacDougall shared her daughter's photos on her blog, many were outraged.
Some thought Lucy was too young to decide to cut her hair short or that short hair on a little girl isn't ladylike. The mother realized none of those outside comments matter once she saw how happy her little girl was.
Lucy even says that many of her friends thought she was a boy until they saw her sparkly pink earrings, yet the little girl was unfazed by those comments. She says her hair looks "fantastic." Lucy even got to donate her hair to Wigs for Kids.
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