A dad has confessed to permitting his daughter to get her head shaved behind his spouse's again regardless that she begged him to not.
Eight-year-old Anna* was determined to chop her thick, blonde, curly hair that went down previous her waist.
However whereas Anna hated her hair, her mum was "obsessed" with it and was towards her ever getting it minimize.
Her dad took a unique facet and accompanied her to the hairdressers whereas her mum was out at work.
His revelation has break up readers on-line with folks debating the totally different parenting kinds, the Mirror studies.
Taking to Reddit, he mentioned: "Ever since she was a toddler, (my spouse would) spend hours doing her hair day by day, braiding it, straightening it and styling it in all kinds of the way," he wrote.
"Our toilet cupboards are all the time stuffed to the brim with a bunch of hair lotions, oils, lotions and different fancy merchandise."
Anna, nevertheless, has by no means been too keen on getting her hair accomplished.
"Whereas it appeared beautiful, she hated getting it brushed and each morning was once a screaming fest between her and my spouse," he defined.
"These days, she'd been begging for a shorter haircut. My spouse ignored her every time the subject was introduced up in hopes that she'd neglect about it, however none of that ended up taking place."
Getting nowhere along with her mum, Anna requested her dad to take her as an alternative.
"I used to be reluctant to at first as a result of I did not understand how my spouse would react, however I agreed after I noticed simply how excited the child was over one thing so simple as a haircut," he mentioned.
So whereas his spouse was at work, the person drove his daughter to the hairdresser.
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"She acquired to flip by way of a whole lot of magazines and choose an image of a haircut. And when she selected a very quick clipper minimize, I knew I used to be gonna be in deep s*** with my spouse," he wrote.
"At that time although, there was no turning again. I imply, what might I've actually accomplished? Informed her that no, she will be able to't get the haircut she was so over the moon about?
"By the top of it, Anna could not cease smiling. She went across the salon displaying it off to everybody and even requested me to take a bunch of images regardless that she usually hates having footage taken of her," he wrote.
"We did get one impolite remark from an older girl on the salon, one thing alongside the strains of 'You may't even inform if she's a boy or a lady now', however Anna was means too enthusiastic about her hair to note."
When he returned house together with his daughter, his spouse was livid.
"She refused to even take a look at Anna, locked herself in her room and cried then acquired within the automotive and drove off," he mentioned.
"I knew she would not react nicely to the haircut however I wasn't anticipating her to take it this badly. The child's upset too and irrespective of how a lot I reassure her she nonetheless thinks she's in bother for getting her hair minimize.
"I realise how connected my spouse was to Anna's hair, however on the finish of the day I nonetheless suppose it is simply hair. The child's sufficiently old to determine this stuff for herself and she or he was actually pleased with the haircut."
Reddi customers have been fast to share their ideas on the person's state of affairs, and whereas many mentioned he was within the incorrect for going behind his spouse's again, others mentioned he did the suitable factor by his daughter.
One individual mentioned: "She appears like she considers her daughter a Barbie doll to play with and would not even think about her a human with emotions. Spouse wants remedy."
One other wrote: "What your spouse has been doing and is continuous to do is sending the message to Anna that her physique shouldn't be her personal, and regardless of her personal wishes, she ought to put different folks's emotions about what she does along with her physique first. Is that this actually the message you need your daughter studying?"
However a 3rd mentioned: "Gentle [you're the a**hole], however not for letting the child have a haircut she wished, that half is okay. For not taking the effort and time to take a seat down along with your spouse first and speak it out, try to see why she was so connected to the hair, try to get her to see that it is actually the child's name, search for an answer."