Your kids are their own persons, and they're probably not going to want to do what you do, or purposely make themselves look anymore like you than they already do. It's a part of being a kid/adolescent. Think about it; when you were their age, would YOU have wanted to take fashion advice from your parents? Would you want to "match" and look anymore like them than you already did? There are plenty of reasons why people wouldn't want to dread, and I would never try to push anyone to do it who was the least bit hesitant. Even if you somehow did convince your children to toss out their hairbrushes and take the Dread Journey with you, it wouldn't really be their journey. They wouldn't get the same meaning from the experience because they didn't really want it in the first place (not to mention everyone's consensual dread journeys are different to begin with). In a nutshell, just leave your kids alone. They will make their own choices, and that's completely fine. ETA: As for me, I wouldn't want my children to have dreads until they were in middle/high school (a guess based on average maturity). It's a VERY big commitment that I wouldn't take lightly, and children have their whole lives in front of them to make their own little quirky decisions and to mess with their appearance.
Hey Hey..I have 4 kids too......17-5 All girls! They only one who shows any interest in wanting locks is the youngest. The other girls like them, but think they would die without their straightners.
ya, it'll be upto Yale and the future others if they want dreads... but it'll be up to Yale to ask to have his hair cut or my mother to get annoyed and take him to have it cut behind my back....
