Children not welcome!
The sign on the door of the salon hit me like a ton of bricks. "NO KIDS.’’
I didn’t have my daughter with me, but I was still immediately put off.
While I know kids can be loud and sometimes put up a fuss in salons, it’s downright demeaning for business owners to ban them, formally or informally. It’s a salon not a strip club.
As a single parent, you don’t necessarily want to hire a baby-sitter every time you need to get your hair done. I take my daughter with me most places—get togethers, the theater, late-night runs to Starbucks.
I loved that in France you’d see couples dining late at night with their toddlers.
I came across an interesting article the other day that said some moms in Africa couldn’t stand to put their babies in a stroller because the babies felt too far from their bodies.
Yet, here, people expect you to pawn your kids off on baby-sitters and other folks so they can have their adult-only wedding, adult-only birthday party, adult-only salon.
Give me a break!
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