why are bad hair days considered cute on little girls?

I don`t want to make too big a deal out of this, but have you noticed that some people do their very
little girls` hair in rather wierd ways? For example, many people cut bangs straight across their
daughters` forehead. Why? This way of wearing hair is often considered hideous on older girls.
It needlessly makes their hair high maintenance. Also, some people seem to love putting their
little girls` short hair in too-little ponytails. I saw one such girl, maybe 2 or 3, the other day. Her
hair was probably about chin length, but was put up in 2 bushy ponytails sticking right up, with
lots of shaggy stuff below them. I don`t think many grown women would be caught on the street
with such a pathetic looking style. Similarly, a little girl with bobbed hair I saw a while back had
a small ponytail sectioned out of each side of the head, which clashed with the bob - it looked like she was growing little horns. It`s plain to me that people want their daughters to look cute, but it looks
silly, it almost makes me think of child neglect Do people think their wee girls are not living, breathing
humans, but Barbie dolls!?

I think it`s a similar thing to what I was saying before about people with special needs - people just don`t think they are worth bothering with too much. In the case of children, it is obvious that these cuts/styles are "home-made" with predictably disastrous results. People seem to think that high fringes are cool, (which they`re not unless you`re Mia Farrow) and also seem to think that a bowl cut and a bob are the same thing. I`m going to suggest that we have a "hair police" with special powers to fine irresponsible parents lol .

ive noticed the small ponytail thing a lot lately,when i was in wal mart yesterday there was a woman that wore a tight ponytail with her little girl and i think she tried to create the same look on her daughter but failed,the girl had really short lightblonde hair that was all tied in a little ponytail that was exteremely tight,the scalp was visible all aroud and underneath the ponytail there was not a trace of hair,just skin,without the ponytail the little girl looked bald,but i guess it was cute cause they both tried the tight ponytailed look :)

Hmm... well as someone else said they may be fixing their own hair and thats why its look that way. Or they see mommy wearing a pony tail and try to fix it that way and the mother doesn`t want to hurt her childs feelings by telling them it looks bad or messy. While I don`t think little girls should have to mess with rollers, blowdryers or curly or straightening irons their hair should still look nice. A little combing and a clip will do!

My point is not to do things to little girls that make them look silly. A ponytail sectioned out of a bob is
so cheezy, and it is clear that the only reason why some parents do their girls` hair this way is because
they find it cute. I hate bangs cut straight on a forehead, and I think it is dumb that many parents have their
kids` hair cut this way. I`m just saying, don`t treat your kids as if they were dolls to be played on. My point
is not that you should go to great lengths to style their hair, but not to make them look kitchy-"cute".

Another reason can be that having the hair "up" means that the child is less prone to catching head lice. No, don`t laugh; it still happens in the UK - not long ago we still used to have big matronly "nit nurses" who used to perform random inspections with big combs. Anyone caught used to be temporarily removed from the classroom and given the smelly oil treatment, or had their head shaved. I`m not making this up!