My Declaration Of Independence

A person’s physical and mental appearance changes as his or her adolescent years develop into adult years. Usually in the early years, parents determine how their offspring physically appears and how the child moves forward with life. Parents; however, do not realize that they are taking away their children’s freedom. As time passes by, children who follow their parents’ every order, slowly build up resentment causing them to take matters into their own hands to prove their independence. A child trying to prove his or her independence does not mean that he or she will entirely be independent from his or her parents, but rather distance himself or herself from the little things. Such little things include the styles of a child’s hair. For me, during my years of youth, my parents decided that my hair should be the boy bowl haircut, the same style as my sister Anita’s. I personally did not favor this hairstyle, but learned to cope with it. My parents; nonetheless, were not the only ones who liked the hairstyle. My relieves from Chicago, surprisingly, loved the shape of …show more content…
The only exception to keep the long locks, though, was that I had to wear it up. Each and every single day of sixth grade middle school, my hair shifted from pigtails to ponytails with the additional hair wrap from Kennywood Park. People would perceive my face to be smaller when I wore pigtails and bigger with a ponytail. Because of the awkward face size, I always argued with my mom trying to persuade that I should leave it down. She refused each time. After three months the hair wrap was removed enabling my hair to breathe again. Nevertheless, in seventh grade a great change occurred. My parents became more lenient and slowly took my opinions into consideration, finally permitting me to let my hair grow and stay down at waist length. This style continued on into eighth grade and nine grade, but stopped in tenth