>>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. :)
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>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.
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>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.

A folding chair is a good idea too.