Messy Hair and Dirty Overalls

I like to give my daughter freedom and autonomy to choose her own path in life, in most everything she does. Sure, I draw the line when she, like, has to wear a seat belt or something. But for the most part, she is able to make the majority of the decisions in her life. One of the decisions she chooses to make is to not brush her hair most days, and this kind of bothers me sometimes because it looks like there is a big, old rat's nest on the back of her head.

But, I do love that she has the freedom to make her own choices about the little things like hair brushing, and I get to pick my battles on the bigger things (like always wearing a seat belt, and not letting her watch TV).

My son likes to assert his autonomy by wearing the same pair of pants (they're overalls actually), over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. But, whatever. If hair brushing and dirty overalls are the biggest problems I have, we're probably doing alright... it just might make us look a little white trash, is all.