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Go Ask Your Dad

Untangle this task Tony DoderoPublished: January, 2010

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There have been many times in my career as a dad when my wife has gone to work and my girls would have some simple requests. “Dad, can you put my hair in a ponytail?” “Dad, can you put this bow in my hair?” While I did my best to keep their coifs looking nice, the truth was a different story. Anyone could tell Dad was doing their hair, not Mom. It all came to roost one Christmas, when my wife dropped this bombshell on me. Her friend’s husband had learned how to wrap his daughter’s hair in a bun, a critical hairdo for potential “Nutcracker” ballerinas. My wife wanted me to do the same, but my inner macho man took over. “There’s no way I’m learning how to do a bun,” I told my wife. So when I heard about Craig Lawrey’s book “Does Your Daughter Have Dad Hair?” I knew what my answer was. Lawrey lives in Redlands with his wife, Shay, daughter, Sheila, and son, Jacoby. His book, which he self-published, is available at dadhair.com. Lawrey has been a stay-at-home dad for seven years, but based on his background, he doesn’t seem like a guy who would be good at creating French braids. He did a stint in the Army and is still in the Navy reserves, as a marksman. At one point in his life, he delivered boats overseas. “I could run a sailboat across the Pacific in huge storms,” he says, “but when it came to my daughter’s hair, there was no chance. Her hair boggled me.” It really hit home one day when he dropped his daughter at school and one of the women there said she could tell he was a stay-at-home dad. How did she know that? She pointed at his daughter and said, “Her hair.” Lawrey asked moms for tips, but their answers were always complicated. NEXT PAGE >>>

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