Photo by Stacey Viera

Taking a kid to get a haircut can be easy (“What do you want?” “I dunno, same thing”) or it be can an awful ordeal. Here’s to moms and dads who are patient when junior wants a mohawk or a rat-tail or something like that.

Overheard of the Week

At an Arlington barber shop:

A woman is trying to convince her 10-year-old son to get a non-terrible haircut. After some earnest debate over how to define terms like “short” and “mullet,” the kid switched tactics.

Kid: “A mullet is shorter. I want a ponytail.”
Mom (patiently): “You don’t have the kind of hair that grows into a ponytail. You have Rod Blagojevich hair.”

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