>By the time they're old enough to laugh at each other's hair, they are the ones dictating the style - not mama or papa.
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>Didn't say I dictated the style....but I do know how to keep a kid from being laughed at. My wife's parents had another son late in life, and then her father split....so I've been the father-like figure for him since he was 9. I usually know what's "in" and what's not "in" (more so with boys than girls).
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>Here's a little lesson...less reading, more TV. :)

Here is a tip from experience. Girls will not take your fashion tips for long. If offered it isn't so much objected to as lightly discarded.

Before my daughters had their licenses they would ask me to take them shopping. It was quite remarkable to observe. I am the typical guy when shopping. In the words of Dan Freeman, I don't go shopping, I go buying. In and out. Not the girls. They don't seem to feel right leaving a store without handling every article of clothing in the place. Holding it up, visualizing themselves in it. I quickly learned to bring something to read.