Waiting lists for the classrooms dedicated only to men who in this way demonstrate, starting from an aspect that might seem futile, how important the division of tasks is but also how an activity of this type allows you to build greater connection with your own children and to tell them that their gender is not a limit to their choice
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As a child Anna Waugh loved to braid her hair, over the years she learned many techniques and started teaching courses in the schools of Saint Albans in the English county of Hertfordshire: what she could not imagine was the success from sold out and waiting lists for classes dedicated to men only.
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A gradual approach
About a year ago, with the Braid Maiden project, Anna started teaching parents how to creatively arrange their daughters' hair: usually there were mainly mothers who had already learned the basics of how to make a simple ponytail or braids. .
The lessons therefore focused on more complex hairstyles such as the Dutch braid - three strands of hair crossed one under the other - some in boho style, others more complex yet. Men were present but only as spectators.
Male classes
They are born almost as an experiment of separate courses for women and men and are above all the latter to immediately register the full house, with waiting lists. How to make a queue, how to use rubber bands: these were the basics from which to start to avoid seeing other viral videos of fathers picking up their daughters' hair with a vacuum cleaner.
The difference with the sessions for mothers was also another: the tenacity with which these fathers were intent on creating perfect hairstyles and the competitiveness between them and with themselves.
From this experience the Beers and Braids evening was born to raise funds to be donated to the school that hosts these evenings, where simple but impeccable hairstyles of different types were created between one sip of beer and the other. Amused fathers and happy girls who ask both parents for help with their hair, this is the balance after the first year of activity.
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Other examples over time
Braid Maiden is not the first example of this type, other experiences have become famous in the United States and all with common traits: single or couple dads who wanted to have a deeper bond with their daughters; fathers who wanted to demonstrate how co-parenting also passes through brushes and rubber bands; children to be shown that their gender does not represent a limit for any type of activity to be carried out.
In 2015, a coaching service of this type, which took place in a hair salon in New York, was reported on the news. The following year, single dad Philippe Morgese opened a YouTube channel with video tutorials where he taught other fathers how to collect girls' hair, the model was his daughter Emma.
Sharing and the fight against gender inequality also passes through here, by the thread of a rubber band.
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