After working at home with my ten year old daughter for the last two months of school this spring and starting homeschool again in August after summer break I realized something I found super interesting. My sweet girl has bangs again. Just a few weeks after withdrawing her from public school and beginning our journey learning together in April I noticed that she had super short spikes of hair all over the top of her head and especially right along the front where bangs would normally be. Since she doesn’t like bangs and didn’t have any before I asked if she had cut her hair on her own.Mortified she insisted that she had definitely not cut her hair and so we tried to figure out what was going on. Eventually after quite a conversation we discovered this. She had been so stressed out and frustrated at school that she had started pulling her own hair out one hair at time whenever she felt over-whelmed and stressed out. This feeling had apparently been just about all the time from the damage I could see growing back.
Now after six and a half months doing school at home I can finally see that we have succeeded with this issue at least. She is no longer stressed out and pulling her hair. It’s growing back. The top is long enough it blends in with the rest and you can’t tell it was ever super short and spikey. And her bangs while they still annoy her, they also no longer embarrass her whenever we go anywhere because they are proper bang length.
This is just one more thing that confirms to me that we really were guided to this homeschool path in order to figure out what is best for my kids. Because as much as I might have days where I am stressed and could say, you guys make me want to pull my hair out sometimes; A child, especially a ten year old child should never have to be that stressed out. Hopefully now she will learn better ways to handle stress than this and we can move forward from here.
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