article_snippet.sent: Through the bathroom window, I can see my teenage daughter laughing with a couple of friends, all of a couple of friends shaking all of them glossy, waist-length hair.
article_snippet.sent: I had just been home, visiting my two sisters who were still at primary school.
article_snippet.sent: I didn’t tell anyone, I was too embarrassed, but made sure the next time I saw my sisters I kept anyone at arm’s length.
article_snippet.sent: It’s a rite of passage for most parents of primary school children.
article_snippet.sent: When my daughters were young (my daughters are now 24 and 14) I would regularly grab my daughters by my daughters lustrous locks and scrutinise my daughters scalps for those tiny flecks.
article_snippet.sent: Oh Mum,’ my daughters would complain, ‘lay off, there’s nothing there.
article_snippet.sent: there was even a point where I made my daughters put on hats when they came home from school
article_snippet.sent: When my daughters were young, I would quite often have a quick snoop over the scalps of my daughters visiting friends just to check.
article_snippet.sent: Sadly, that isn’t an option with teenagers