Naturally Kinky Hair

There's a hair theme on Sesame Street today and there was a song so cute, it compelled me to update my neglected blog.  To bad I can't find a video of it yet.  In the segment a brown-skinned muppet with an afro is singing, "I love my hair."  Then she goes through all different hair styles from twists to cornrows, up and down.  It was cute and tastefully done.  I was so impressed.

In the same episode, the cartoon during Elmo's World is about a king who makes a rule that everyone wear their hair like his.  He comes across a black girl with what looks like locs and asks her why her hair doesn't look like his.  She tells him she tried but her hair won't look like his and she likes her hair the way it is.  She then asks what's wrong with people wearing their hair in different ways, the king answers "nothing" and changes his law.

It's nice to see positive images and ideas about kinky hair presented directly to children.