It’ tempting to refute you, because what you say is not factually correct. But, even were you comments factually accurate, it’s my personal perogative and choice to blog on certain topics. Please don’t presume to admonish me for my choices. Kinda overbearing doncha think. Not to mention creepy for taking such a specific interest in me, when clearly there are “regulars” on certain topics. Here, and on other boards. So what?

As to the merits. “Grows out straight from the roots”, has an entirely different meaning–”than grows out from the roots”. Can you grasp that? Please take the time, to read and post more carefully. The absence of a simple word–can lead to unnecessary discussion.

And speaking of a simple word, What’s with “ostensibly” happy in your prior comment. Talking about taking liberties with the truth. From what this couple says, and all of the people closest to them, they ARE happy. Do you know something that the rest of us don’t.

Didn’t think so.

I wish them all the best and am happy that they do not conform what some perceive as being the ‘norm’.

I’ve seen hair like Johan as there are several bi-racial kids who have been at our pool. And when wet, the hair goes totally silky and long. The difficulty with combing his hair, has more to do with the length than the texture. And I’ll bet Henry’s hair softens a bit too.

Of course, there’s probably no more difficulty in combing out their hair, than there is, with combing long straight hair. There are a number of products that are geared to help with the comb out process. To my knowledge, most of these products are not ethnically marketed.

I also have a mixed race child (black & white) and her hair is very thick and tangles often (thank God for Carol’s Daughter). Even so, brushing her hair is not at all hard to do. Combing is another story…

I can very easily imagine that “black hair” is even more difficult to brush, since, in general, it is even thicker than “white hair”. Also, are you black, Aniah, or do you have black or mixed-race children or friends that are black or mixed? If not, then you have absolutly no way of knowing how difficult it is or isn’t to brush a black person’s hair.

As Arisha said, you don’t know how hard or easy something like that is unless you’ve experience it yourself.