African Hair Care

Get any group of Caucasian parents who have adopted a black child together and the subject automatically turns to hair. Whether we want to believe it or not hair matters, and our parenting skills will be judged (at least a little) by how our kid's hair looks. African hair is different from Caucasian hair (duh!) and differs vastly depending on the person. Here are some of the best resources I’ve found to help you keep your kiddos hair looking great.

My Girl's Curls is a blog about one woman's experience with her daughter's hair.
The Rainbowkids.com newsletter has a wonderful series on this subject written by an adoptive mom titled "Hair Matters". Check it out at RainbowKids.com or at the author's blog.
Hair Help provides guidance and tips.
Adoption Hair and Skin Care is a Yahoo group devoted to this subject. This is a great and safe place to ask questions.
How-to Guide: Taking Care of Your African American Daughter's Hair is written by an adult transracial adoptee who notes that she never learned how to take care of her hair because she was adopted by Caucasian parents. She gives practical advice.
African American Children’s' Hair & Skin Care links several articles written for adoptive parents
Naturally Curly is a website for curly hair--black and white. My friends say this is one of the best for black hair.
Black Girl Long Hair is a blog about "celebrating the dopeness of natural hair". I especially like the post profiling an adoptive family from Atlanta. Be sure to check out the AJC article and slideshow...it's a very sweet story
It’s all Good Hair by Michele N-K Collison is a great guide for working with a variety of different hair textures.
"Gettin' My Hair Did" Most of the resources are for working with girl’s hair. I like this because first, it’s a video and second, it’s for guys.
Stylin My Girls is a series of You Tube videos on various hair styles.

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