I know - shocker, right?
You know, I want to like Kate Hudson. I really do. But the problem with Kate Hudson is that she allows her little boy to look like this:
I recall reading somewhere that Kate won’t cut his hair because HE likes it long. Which means essentially that Kate Hudson is allowing Ryder to parent himself. If my son said, “Mommy - I would like to keep my hair long so that people can’t really tell, upon looking at me, exactly what gender category I fall into” you know what I would say? I would say NO. And then I would start calling everyone I know to tell them that my two year old was using phrases like “gender category.”
Anyway, it’s called being a parent. Your kid doesn’t get to call the shots on this kind of stuff, Kate. Do the right thing.
I disagree with ya on the hair thing, Mock. I have 4 boys - 2 of whom have long hair. For me, its a case of ‘pick your battles’. Hair length? Nuh-uh, not worth the struggle. There are many, more important conflicts that are ahead for us. Hair is such a minor issue in the Grande Scheme of Life.
You might have more important conflicts with boys at older ages, but when they’re FOUR? Seriously - what major issues are you dealing with at four? Four year olds shouldn’t get to call the shots on ANYTHING, least of all their hair.
If you’re dealing with teen angst, and individual expression, that’s one thing. But a not-even-in-kindergartner telling you how long they want their hair? It’s indicative that they’re probably calling the shots on other stuff too. Too many parents let their kids railroad them.
I do understand what you’re saying - I just don’t think it applies to a kid this young.
Sometimes the wrestling with a child having a fit of biblical proportions in a hair salon isn’t worth the struggle of proving you’re the grown up. It’s just hair. My son wears a mohawk. He likes it. I like it. The fights/lessons in life you have with a child four and under where you stand your ground are bedtimes, eating right, sharing, behaving in public, general hygene (some kids fight bathtime), not running off without an adult, appropriate and inappropriate touching, and my own personal favorite, potty training. There are other ways to show your dominance as the adult on stuff that really matters. It’s easy to tell someone else how wrong they’re raising their kids. Believe you me, I rule with an iron fist; but some things aren’t worth fighting over.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, look at Kate’s son’s father. Some kids look up to their same-gender parent and want to emulate them. Ok, I’m getting off my soapbox now. : )
I’m still disturbed that, beneath the gigantic metallic bag, the visible parts of her look like the bottom half of a 6 year old gymnast.
Uh… forgot to say…. NO WAY, Kate looks HORRIBLE there!!! I GOT to get fin out what make-up she wears!!!
LOL pickled. I had to look again when you mentioned her bottom half. At first glance, it does look wierd, but really look at it and you will see she has on black and white shorts and the back side of her shorts are blending in with the background.
My 4 year old daughter stubbornly refused to wear ponytails, bows or the like, so we gave her a choice to either start wearing her hair in ponytails or we’d cut it short. She picked the short cut and it’s adorable. We did let her choose, but we gave her options we wanted her to have, instead of just letting her do whatever she wanted.
I actually kinda like long hair no matter what the gender. I’ll admit, there is an issue about being able to tell what sex he is, but he’s a kid, so whatever. If he’s getting made fun of for it, then it’s an issue. But it doesn’t look like it’ll affect any other part of his life. (He’s not applying for a job, he’s not dating, etc.) I say let the kid grow his hair down to his ass if he likes, just as long as he is not getting into trouble. A little individuality isn’t gonna hurt.
I don’t know … I understand about picking your battles, but when I was a kid, I knew better than to pitch a fit anywhere. We were taught that inappropriate behavior, like pitching fits, carried consequences, and it’s made us (my siblings and I) better adults as a result.
How on earth did our parents and grandparents manage to make us obey? Please don’t tell me that we’re so much more enlightened today than they were — the current generation is hugely pampered and thinks that they deserve a reward for behavior that used to be expected rather than being something that deserves a prize.
Oh man, I’ll stop, but I could do a rant of my own on this subject …
The kids hair is not a reflection of him it’s a reflection of her. At that age he doesn’t even understand what a choice is let alone have one. Cut his hair it looks like Sh&%$.
I’m much more concerned about kids his age who are still in diapers. It is amazing to me how common that has become. I know all kids are different and potty training isn’t easy, but come on folks! 3 and a half and still in Pull Ups? Put your foot down and get to the “training”.
Christine… I’m glad you saw that. I thought she was seriously disproportionate–like a reverse Weeble or something.
Why is there another persons body attached to Kate Hudson below her purse?
I guess we are all retarded when it comes to reflections. lol
I keep looking at that picture, too, and wondering how on earth those hips and legs could belong to the same figure. Is it a weird camera angle?
It is her shorts. Her but is blending into the back ground. It’s an optical butt-lusion.
There’s also a finger or something obscuring the lower right-hand corner into this weird blur. We have nothing visually to make a reference to, so we interpret the white and yellow as the end of her hiney, when the black does indeed go on. If you compare where her purse is and where you think her butt is, you’ll see that it would look like an inhumanly long torso, but if you take into account the blur, it suddenly comes into focus. BTW, I don’t know that anyone would recognize her in the airport without the makeup. And I have never seen her son in anything but white and navy. Poor kid.
The kid looks like a pirate/orphan/urchin from a modern day Dickens novel. -No excuse for letting a little kid look like that.
Christine and especially Lioness — yes, now I see what happened with the lower half of her body. Weird how it all became clear — like those, “Is this an old lady, or a young woman” optical exercises!
Wearing capris doesn’t help with the “Is it a boy or girl” question.
I asked my 9 year old daughter if she thought his pic was a boy or a girl and she said a girl, (kind of unsure, but I think that had more to do with the fact that I asked and she knew something was up!)
Never mind the hair. What about the Crocs?!?!
Actually, she should cut his hair. My mother loooooves my son’s hair (he is 4) when it starts to get long-ish (nothing like Ryder’s, it just starts to grow over his ears and curls up in the back). She says it makes him look like an English schoolboy. Of course, that made me take him directly to my hairdresser to get it cut SHORT, almost a crew-cut. It’s easier to take care of and I am the one who has to take care of it, not my son. Shave his head!!! 
Back to Kate-dear… you can really see the resemblance to Mumsy in this pic.