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"   Photo via Instagram  Rachel Zoe&amp;#039;s son has a lot of hair, which is sparking online commentary that falls into some predictable camps: &amp;quot;He looks cute, good for them&amp;quot; is the general consensus of one. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a terrible mother to let her son look like a girl,&amp;quot; says the other.  My first reaction, of course, was &amp;quot;Leave them alone! She can do what she wants!&amp;quot;  But then I decided to see what my husband thought as a man with long hair. He&amp;#039;s been hearing about it from friends and strangers for years, so he has a more nuanced view.  He reminded me that we went to a wedding years ago, before our son was born, and there was a little boy there with lovely long locks. He was young enough, like Rachel Zoe&amp;#039;s son, that it was pretty unclear whether he was a boy with long hair or a girl in a bowtie. But that&amp;#039;s not really what my husband remembered: He couldn&amp;#039;t get over the parents, who spent a lot of time complaining that they always had to explain to people that their child is a boy. His reaction: You can&amp;#039;t have it both ways.  Letting your son&amp;#039;s hair grow is a choice, unlike some of the other things that make kids different. You can choose whether to challenge gender norms through your children, or you can choose to do what everyone else does. Neither is necessarily a better path, but you have to know what you&amp;#039;re getting into.  So what choice are we going to make for our boy, the son of a long-haired dad and a short-haired mom? My husband, who likes his long hair but deals with comments and questions about it regularly, feels strongly that our little guy will have a &amp;quot;boy haircut&amp;quot; until he&amp;#039;s old enough to decide for himself \u2014 and old enough for his dad to teach him how to stand up to bullies, online or otherwise.   Sarah Smith is a deputy editor at REDBOOK and the mom of a baby boy. She and her furry circus (husband, baby, dog, and cat) live in New York City.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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