Chip Chick
“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.
