This Mom Waxed Her 5-Year-Old Daughter’s Unibrow Because She Doesn’t Want Anyone To Make Fun Of Her But She’s Telling The Internet Her Husband Freaked Out On Her
One mom’s 5-year-old daughter is about to start kindergarten soon, and she did something to help make sure her daughter would have an easier time in the classroom.
She waxed off her daughter’s unibrow because she doesn’t want anyone in her daughter’s class to make fun of her, but her husband is not on board with what she did.
She started out by explaining that her daughter’s unibrow is so obvious and dark that there’s just no way you can miss it.
Last year, her daughter attended online preschool, so nobody had the opportunity to bully her over it because nobody could see it.
That all changed when this mom invited her daughter’s cousins over to their house this summer.
Most of the cousins made fun of her daughter for having a unibrow, which did terrible damage to her daughter’s self-esteem in such a short amount of time.
“They’d call her countless names, and at just five years old my daughter already thinks she is ugly,” this mom explained.
“It breaks my heart because nobody (let alone a five-year-old) should think they are ugly.”
“I reassure my daughter she is beautiful and not to listen to her cousins, but my daughter still believes she is ugly.”
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Next week, her daughter needs to physically be there to attend kindergarten, and she’s very concerned that the bullying will only increase as soon as she steps foot inside the school.
Taking things into her own hands, she knew she only had one choice: to wax off that unibrow.
So, she did just that. She waxed it right down the middle, and that’s all she did. She did not pluck them or do anything to change the shape of her daughter’s eyebrows.
“My daughter was elated looking in the mirror and calling herself so pretty,” she said.
“It warmed my heart to see her so confident in herself, but I made sure to remind her she was beautiful both ways.”
Then, her husband got home from work, and her daughter could not wait to show him the work her mom did on her eyebrows.
Although her husband said that she looked beautiful, they got into a blowout fight behind closed doors.
“He said it was horrible of me to be subjecting my five-year-old daughter to beauty standards,” she continued.
“And that at such a young age I’m pushing it on her, instead of telling her she is beautiful the way she is.”
“And no five-year-old should be waxing their eyebrows, and I’m pushing the mentality that she is only beautiful without her unibrow.”
“And that my daughter is too young to know what she wants and she should have been able to make her decision to wax it off when she is old enough.”
While she gets what he is saying, her daughter has mentioned to her that she would like to do something to remove her unibrow.
She simply doesn’t want her daughter to be subjected to bullying anymore, and she’s afraid she will later grow up to blame her for not doing anything to stop it from happening.
Here’s what the internet had to say to her.
“If your daughter wanted it, and you can do this one simple thing to prevent bullying for her..it is worth it. That being said, you or the cousin’s parents should have shut that…down the moment it started happening.”
“I, a female, have very dark and thick arm and leg hair. I got called half-ape all through elementary. I would come home and cry for an hour daily.”
“Mom offered to me that I could wax. I did. It helped my self-esteem. Now that I’m in my 20’s I’ve just stopped caring.”
“I have more important things to worry about. But I still think my mom did that right thing.”
“I had the same situation as you but the opposite reaction from my mum refusing to let me shave or anything.”
“I don’t blame her for me getting bullied however I definitely hold against her she did absolutely nothing for my self-esteem and found what they were saying so funny she continued “the joke” at home. I have serious body issues even now turning 30 next week. ”
“This is so minor and could spare the daughter a lot of grief. Maybe make sure to frame it as something she does because she likes the way it looks etc. vs. something she does for other people. You have plenty of time to tackle beauty standards later.”
“A couple of grades above me a girl was bullied so badly for something similar she switched to homeschooling – and this was decades ago when that was super uncommon.”
“Then she got bullied for that. And this was before anything like social media. Why would you not want to do something simple to avoid it.”
“There is the ideal world and the unfortunate reality sometimes.”
“Yep! I went through the same. And the worst part is, it won’t even stop at just her grade, the entire school will make comments about her.”
“I only stopped shaving my arms within the last year, and to this day between my dark pores and severe razor burn from trying to shave, I refuse to wear shorts.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say to her here.
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