How do I get her hair to stay 'decent'?

[Olive]

Hairspray, hairspray and more hairspray, keeps the hair tidy and nits (hopefully) away!

[LuluHB]

DD1 has really whispey hair so she always has tendrils around the side of her face that escape. I do "top and bottom" pony tails - use a comb to pull all the hair from basically the front of the ears to the top of the head and put a band in, then gather the rest of the hair into a normal pony tail, pulling the end of the top pony tail into it too. Keeps the growing out fringe in place better without the need to use clips. They're generally pretty neat still by the end of the day, but there's always some whispey bits escaping.

If we actually have time to spare in the mornings then I will do a couple of braids in their hair. I think you can buy braiding tools that make it easier - might be worth trying to track one down

Tanstar - I'm not sure that pony tails stop nits at all. The girls go to a private school and so the boys have to have very short hair and the girls have to have it tied up if its collar length but in the early learning centre you never go longer than a few weeks at the absolute most without a note saying that someone that day had nits.

[sangie]

I use hairspray too. I either do the top and bottom ponytails or else pigtails and then I plait them.

Last week I put her hair up in one big ponytail but it had all fallen out by pick up time. She looked like she'd just got out of bed lol.

[chody47]

I'm loving the ideas here. I've actually given DD1 a half-decent hairstyle today!

[Beach Mama]

There is a blog called Hair Romance - lots of videos and tutorials on how to braid and generally do rad stuff to hair - I want to try an upside down braid on DD but still working on normal ones!!!

[Netix]

Hey, sorry, I didn't mean to ignore all the replies. I use my phone all the time for internet and it is really difficult to scroll from posts to the reply I am typing. Today, I am at the library. ANd wow, doesn't the full size keyboard seem weird!

I would ask the hairdresser, except that I don't have one. Believe it or not. DD does like nice hair, and that's why I feel bad that I can't do more. I could do the messy buns.... They are supposed to be tidy, but will definitely turn out messy! Her 'fringe' is now long enough to tuck behind her ears. THe Man wants her to have very short hair, because of the heat, but then I can't do anything at all with it. And when she did have a little bob cut (like Dora), she would always say she wanted it plaited, or in pony tails, or SOMETHING please Mum!

Marydean, I think you are right about the secret Mummy club. When you find out how to join, let me know!

I will look online for the suggested searches, they should turn something up useful!

I did try the hairspray, though I'm not sure if it was any better, lol. SHe's also taken to pulling her pony tail out by the end of the day. Yep, truly a brilliant idea to do on 37-ish degree days, on a bus!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hmm the heat up there is shocking in summer and although short hair would be nice it can be just as painful to keep tidy.
When we take the girls up there at easter i did two little pig tails the rolled them around themselves (al princess leia sp?) and the girls loved them and they actually stayed quite neat (and you've seen pics of my feral children when camping up there)

I am going to look at some youtube tutorials for ideas on DD1's hair too, try and figure out how to braid her fringe kind of thing