“ Why I Tried to Highlight My Son’s Hair Purple”
I look at my sister’s hair, with her trendy hot pink streak for breast cancer awareness. “Glob more dye on mine!” I exclaim. The more purple, the better. October is also Domestic Violence Awareness month, and I wanted to raise awareness not only through my writing. My oldest son agreed that he wanted his hair to be purple like Mommy’s, so I was excited. He walked into the bathroom, and looked puzzled at what we were doing. Suddenly, he was changing his mind. “Pretty please!” I begged. He wouldn’t budge. So, I gave him a big wet kiss, and kindly asked him to play with his little brother, and nicely share with him while we finished up my purple highlights. “You tried to do what?!” someone asked me later on that evening. “Why on Earth would you do that to your son?” they continued. Why? In order to spread awareness, one sometimes has to do something a little out of the box. Besides, the dye washes out in a couple of hair washings. People may not f