Yes she's a REAL blonde!
By mommyboo
@mommyboo (13174)
United States
August 5, 2009 5:25am CST
What odd or ridiculous questions have people asked you about your child? Someone asked me today if my daugher was a 'real' blonde! What else would she be? Her hair IS blonde! No I don't DYE it! It grows out of her head that way - just like all other kids' hair. Let's hear em, what have people asked you that doesn't make sense at all??
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
6 Aug 09
As my children are bi racial they usually would ask if they were mine. I'd be pregnant, have another one in my arms and one clinging to my pants and some stranger would ask if they were mine. That never happened in Jamaica where the population is racially mixed but in other countries or by visitors to the Island who would stop me on the beach. Are they yours, they would ask? This always amazed me.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
6 Aug 09
To which you reply, "yes they're mine. I paid a quarter for each of them at the flea market." Sigh, some people are so dumb...
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
6 Aug 09
People don't ever ask me IF she's my daughter. They often ask about ethnicity though which I think is DUMB. We are people. Oh and I guess we're girls. Isn't that enough?
Usually when someone is asking me 'are they yours' they are asking in awe of when I have a troop of four or five holding hands. It doesn't seem to matter if NONE of them look like me or each other. I have decided it's more people wondering why someone would have that many kids than REALLY wondering if they belong to me or not. I get the 'your hands must be full' a lot. No, not my hands, they all help out in that respect. My heart is full though 
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@UK_Shree (3603)
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6 Aug 09
I wouldn't ask a mother that if her child were very young. I have however seen mums who have coloured their childrens hair before, which I actually think is quite awful. Kids should be natural, and shouldn't have highlights and the like in their hair - it doesn't somehow seem right on a child anyway.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
6 Aug 09
LOL I don't think anybody ever asked me such a silly question. Who would dye a child's hair?
When my daughter was a baby - up to about 2 or 3 - people used to ask me if my husband was japanese. But I guess that they were kind of justified because she really looked kind of asian. So not exactly silly. Although one couple kept looking at her and us - me and hubby - at the subway once and then they actually asked me if we had had trouble adopting her LOL they actually apologized after and explained that they were trying to adopt a child for some time but the paper work was taking so long.
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
8 Aug 09
I find that odd that strangers would ask that because how does that equate to anything? Usually people ask ME if my husband is WHITE! I think that is VERY strange and almost..... offensive. I mean he is, but what does that have to do with anything?
What's funniest is that when our daughter was born, we looked at each other and we looked at her... and she really looked like neither one of us. We chalked it up to the fact that newborns - a few minutes after being born - really don't look the way they do after a few days or weeks. I mean, she looked like a baby, had lots and lots of very dark hair, and was kind of red lol. Up until she was almost a year old, she looked much more like me than my husband. She started looking more like him after that.... her hair got lighter and lighter from about 6 months on, prompting some people to ask me if it was real. It was dark at the ends and blonde at the roots lol and then the dark pretty much fell out. These days if you see US (hubby and I) together we look nothing alike, but if you see my daughter with him, you swear she looks like him, you see her with me, you swear she looks like me. It's very funny, she must be a chameleon.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
6 Aug 09
I keep getting asked if my partner is my father, even when we are holding hands or kissing. Sure, he is a lot older than me, but I would have thought holding hands and talking about couples things would clear it up!
Our girls were all born with dark hair, which is now much blonder. Odd considering neither my partner or I has blonde hair, but that's how life goes. Another odd thing is 3 of our kids have blue-grey eyes, when both of us parents have brown or hazel eyes. Weird, but my partner's brother has the same colour and so does my step son, so the gene has to be there somewhere.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Well my husband is blond and when our daughter was born, her hair was dark, like mine. It is probably lighter than his hair now lol. I see a lot of kids now who are sensitive about not looking like a parent - one of the little girls in her jazz class apparently doesn't want her mom to be blond because she thinks it makes her not look like her mom lol. My daughter is so obviously my daughter though, she does look like me. I'm sort of blonde, although I DO dye it lol.
We didn't think she'd be blonde, no, but I also didn't think her eyes would stay blue as long as they did either. Again, mine aren't, hubby's are. I have cousins who all have red hair even though my aunt and uncle are blonde and brownish. Only one of the cousins has a redhead son, the rest of them are all blond or brown. I think they lied in bio when they talk about genetic traits. Blond is definitely not recessive, the way it was put when I learned about it, dark would always prevail. Can't be true lol.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
6 Aug 09
I think it was one of your discussions where I said this before (or one that you responded in), but it was about my twins. They're fraternal twins, boy/girl, and I've had a couple of people ask me if they were 'real' twins. Hellooooo... Twins just means you had them during the same pregnancy. It doesn't mean that they're the same gender, much less identical.
Another funny one was when I came back with my honeymoon photos and got to the picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and this one girl said, "Dawn, that building looks like it's falling over." Yep, you got it, she had never heard of one of the world's most famous landmarks.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
6 Aug 09
And then there was the guard at work, the time I was trying to bring my son up to my desk and he needed my boss's permission. "Dawn's here with her grandson..." Sheesh...
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
6 Aug 09
He was vain - he wouldn't wear his glasses!
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@korki4 (263)
• Philippines
5 Aug 09
i think the most question that doesnt make sense at all that i heard is "Are you lesbian?" uhmmm duhhh!! just because i do alot of sports doesn't mean all girls are like that i hat it when people base it on their activities,. i wouldnt get mad if they really questioned me personally but they usually observe in my actions and not preferencing...
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