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Well I hope you won't leave FR because some jokes were directed at you. This can be a tough crowd, but its just the internet.

I don't have a blonde daughter, so can't exactly relate, but remember being picked on as a kid. Many of us could list the horrid things we were called, the harrassment, the ostracizing. Kids can be incredibly mean. I had to hear it for a year in 5th grade because I let a girl beat me up(I was taught to never, ever hit a girl, and my smart mouth pushed one over the edge.) But that's just a part of growing up, learning to deal with the unfair hardships that will come throughout life, often at the worst times.

I'm sure it has to be one of the most frustrating things in the world to see your child be picked on or suffer unfairly. Thank goodness you have the good motherly instincts to want to protect her in any and every way. But I doubt that anyone here is trying to inflict that type of pain by making a joke, and one of our tenets of conservatism is learning to deal with adversity. Sometimes its the tough challenges that build our character and make us stronger, giving us skills that we can return to later in life when similar troubles arise.

Diddle - I think you're getting 2 messages mixed up - I'm the one with the blond daughter, not the originator of this post. My daughter grew up in Hawaii and will practically cuss out anyone that looks at her crosswise! Talk about a blond that had to grow up with hard knocks!!

Well I hope you won't leave FR because some jokes were directed at you.

But the blond jokes were not directed at her, she chose to adopt them. Before my hair turned silver I was blond, jokes never bothered me, heck at times I even used them to my advantage.