Easy and Cute Summer Hairstyles for Girls

 As the summer heat spikes and the weather closes to triple digits, your little girls need a stylish and functional hairstyle to carry all day without much fuss. If you are looking for cute summer hairstyles that let your young girls feel lighter and relaxed during summer, this article is for you! 

Let your little girls shine this summer with these super easy yet gorgeous hairdos. 

 

Perfect Ponytails

A simple high-tied ponytail can be a gust of breeze for your little one's sweaty scalp during summer. It is most suitable for girls with long hair who want to look trendy and stylish yet need a low-maintenance hairstyle. However, a high-tied ponytail can look equally appealing for girls with medium-length hair. It is not just easy to make, but you can also try it with so many variations.

Ponytails are hassle-free and clean!

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

●      To create a simple high-tied ponytail, comb and untangle all your hair.

●      Next, gather all your hair together, holding a little high and securing it with a scrunchie or a rubber band.

 

Stylish Variations of Ponytails

A high-tied ponytail is not just super easy to make but also versatile in terms of style. You can try different stylish variations with a simple ponytail for your young supermodels. 

Side braid ponytails are manageable and adorable!

Try some beach waves in the open hair of her ponytail for a more stylish appeal. You can also add baby braids to her open hair. Further, you can experiment with different braiding styles to make a braided ponytail. Accessorize her hairdo with a scarf for a whimsical vibe.

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Peppy Pigtails

We all know about traditional pigtails that are super easy to carry all day. A pair of peppy pigtails will create a charming hairdo for your little girl on a scorching summer day. No matter her hair type, curly or straight, this slight variation of the usual hairstyle takes only a few minutes to get your girl ready for the day. 

Add a bucket hat or floral accessories, and your little birdie is ready to make a personalized style statement.

 

Pigtails look so cute!

Steps to Achieve the Style

●      To create the peppy pigtails, comb and part your hair into two halves, creating a separation in the middle of your scalp.

●      Secure the hair on each partition with a rubber band tied high on the crown.

●      Tightly braid your hair on each partition, securing it towards the end with a rubber band.

●      Accessorize as you please with hair accessories or hats.

 

Impressive Braids

Braiding the hair of your little one can create super easy yet pretty hairstyles for summer that suit every hair type. You can make a braided hairstyle more trendy for your young girl by pairing it with a scarf or silk headband matching her outfit. Braids will keep the hair of your little one more manageable all day.

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

●       Comb and untangle the hair of your little girl to create a super simple braided hairstyle.

●      Next, gather all the hair together and divide it into three parts.

●      Now, weave them together into a braided pattern.

●      Secure the style with a rubber band towards the end of the hair length.

 

Style Variations for Braids

The fun thing about braids is that you can create different looks by trying different braid patterns. You can divide her hair into four parts and weave them together for a different braid. How about creating three braids and weaving them together into a thick braid? 

The possibilities with braids are endless. You can combine braids with ponytails or braid the hair of your young girl loosely to create a messy appearance. How about trying knotless braids that start seamlessly at the scalp of your little girl, continuing to the very end of the hair? You can even weave a scarf throughout the hair length of her braid for a quick chic hairdo.

 

Funky Topknots and Crazy Buns

Topknots and buns are fun to make and are among super easy hairstyles done in under 5 minutes for your teenage girl. Buns keep your little girl focused on her activities without worrying about managing her hair. Buns and topknots are the best hairdos for girls who sweat a lot during summer. These hairdos keep the hair in place and make your little ones look pleasant at the same time.

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

●      Comb and gather all her hair and tie it into a top knot or secure it into a bun.

●      Pair the top knots and buns with colorful hair accessories or scarves.

 

Style Variations for Topknots

You can create different style variations of a regular top knot into a messy bun or sleek top knot. Creating a messy bun requires minimal skills yet helps young girls look super appealing and gorgeous. 

On the contrary, a sleek topknot looks more neat and provides better control of her hair. Ditch the regular bun with space buns for a funkier yet fuss-free appearance.

 

Messy space buns look great on small girls!

Steps to Create Space Buns

●      Comb and partition all her hair right from the middle of the scalp.

●      Gather the hair in each partition and secure it into a bun.

 

Stylish Half-Up Half-Down

Are you looking for some quick hairstyles for your little girl? Spice up her style game with a super stylish yet simple-to-make half-up half-down hairdo. This hairstyle will beautifully compliment her curly, wavy hair. Accessorize the hairdo with stylish claws or colorful snap clips and pair it with a cute short summer dress for a neat look. 

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

●      Comb the hair of your little one and divide it into two halves so that the crown area forms one half, and the second half will have the hair below the crown.

●      Secure the upper half with a rubber band, claw clip, or a scrunchie. An oversized bow also looks cute on this hairdo. You can secure the open hair on the upper half into a messy bun or top knot for a funkier appearance.

●      Let the lower half fall on the shoulders of your little one to create amazingly cute summer hairstyles.

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Adorable Braided Crown

The braided crown is one of the most adorable and easily manageable, cute summer hairstyles for young girls. These milkmaid braids will help your little girl stay at ease while she is engaged in different activities. 

Also, the braided crown creates a gentle look similar to a princess from a fairytale or a movie that your little girl will love to have. Pamper your little princess more by adding cute accessories or flowers to the braided crown. The hairstyle is also super simple to make and does not require the assistance of an experienced hairdresser.

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

Crown braid for young girls in summer

●      To create the style, start braiding your hair from one side, gradually covering the scalp and all hairs, creating a braid that appears like a crown.

●      For long hair, make a full-length braid starting from one side and wrap the length of the braid around her scalp, creating the appearance of a crown.  

 

Whimsical Bohemian

You can create elegant, loosely braided, half-up, half-down bohemian hairstyles for your little ladies to elevate the overall appearance of any summer outfit. These hairdos are more appropriate for summer festivals, outdoor parties, or weekend fun.

 

Steps to Achieve the Style

●      To create the style, tie up half of her hair in loose braids, creating a puff and a messy appearance. This messy yet trendy hairdo creates a whimsical and impressive look straight from fairytales. 

 

You can try different combinations of these cute summer hairstyles to pamper your little girl this season. Ditch the heat of the summer with some of these breezy and easy-to-make hairstyles. Adorn them with hair clips, bands, scarves, flowers, and embellishments to create a personalized style for your young princesses.

Summer Hair Care Tips For Young Girls

Over exposure to sun rays not only damage the skin but also the hair of young children. Harmful UVA and UVB rays cause several hair issues such as frizziness, thinning, dryness, dullness, and split ends.

Therefore, it becomes important to have a summer hair care routine to maintain the healthy and shining hair of your girl.

Follow these hair care tips-

1. To protect her hair, sun hat is just right for young girls. Or they can wear a head scarf or caps which will protect their hair from direct sunlight.

2. A nice trim can prevent split ends and hair breakage. It also promotes better and healthier hair growth in summer.

3. Let the wet hair dry naturally after washing. This is important for protection. Do not use hair dryers as they cause breakage and thinning. In case, you need to rush, use the cool mode of hair dryer to dry the hair.

4. Buy gentle shampoo and conditioners for your little daughter to protect her hair from chemicals such as sulfates as these chemicals may cause dryness and dullness. Therefore choose products that are specifically for kids.

5. Hair oiling once in a while in summer helps to retain moisture and keep the hair healthy and strong. Remember to wash the hair after some time.                                          

6. Swimming is a favorite among children but chlorine present in swim water is harmful to hair. Therefore, always remove chlorine water after coming out of the pool and wash your hair.

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7. Hydrate and eat well for healthy hair. Your daughter needs nourishment and hydration to keep her skin and hair healthy throughout the summer.

Hope this blog post helped you to maintain the hair of your daughter and create cute summer hairstyles for her!

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Embracing Boredom- #1 Secret to Reduce Kids' Screen Time

Are your children constantly glued to screens? Excessive screen time has become one of the biggest challenges for parents worldwide. From whining for devices to full-blown tantrums when they get taken away, limiting technology feels like an ongoing war against the ultimate nemesis - boredom. But what if we tell you that embracing boredom can solve all these parenting issues?

Rather than being the dreaded enemy, boredom is the #1 secret to reducing kids' screen time while igniting their creativity, curiosity, and authentic potential.

Let kids learn to embrace boredom!

By learning to surrender to healthy bouts of under-stimulation instead of rushing to fill them with digital entertainment, we provide our children's brilliant minds with fertile soil to blossom. Boredom provides the open space for organic growth, self-discovery, and engaged living that's proven to reduce unhealthy device reliance.

The Cultural Shift Away from Boredom

In previous generations, childhoods were rich with pockets of boredom woven naturally into the cadence of life. Kids spending unscheduled hours playing outdoors, making up games together, or watching parents complete household chores was commonplace and offered them time to simply be and explore.

But in today's hyper-scheduled, nuclear families are unable to offer children organic under-stimulation. Driven by academic pressures and overstuffed with enrichment activities, spontaneous boredom takes a backseat.

Parents understandably pacify kids with devices out of fear of them feeling bored and restless. Yet in doing so, we inadvertently deny them the incredible screen-free, creativity-sparking, brain-boosting experiences boredom provides.

The Imaginative Benefits of Childhood Boredom

When children are free from easy digital entertainment and have to reckon with periods of under-stimulation, something almost magical happens. Their native brilliance and resourcefulness come forth in extraordinary ways.

Forgotten household objects become the centerpiece of elaborate fantasy worlds. Couch cushions swiftly transform into ship captains' quarters. Flowers, twigs, and rocks become raw material for an elaborate tea party.

These spontaneous acts of innovation don't simply flex creative muscles. They're vital cognitive exercises too, helping solidify neural pathways for abstract thinking, problem-solving, metacognition, and more. When kids work through boredom versus instantly gratifying it digitally, these crucial capacities for original thought get reinforced.

Tap Into Children's Authentic Interests

Another profound gift of boredom is that it helps reveal a child's authentic interests, talents, and callings. One child may find themselves instinctively drawn to lyrical self-expression through poetry or storytelling. Another discovers an untapped love for tinkering, transforming everyday items into simple machines and original games.

Gift of boredom leads to creativity in kids!

It's through still moments of unstructured presence, independent from non-stop stimulation, that kids get to truly know themselves. Their budding passions, questioning minds, and quests for mastery begin sprouting. This self-discovery is the fuel for cultivating engaged, joyful childhoods. Such moments naturally reduce kids' screen time and pave way for character-building.

Boredom's Role in Character Development

By allowing healthy, minimally structured idleness without constantly re-stimulating digitally, crucial social-emotional skills take root. Here are some subtle benefits that children will experience through navigating boredom-

1. Delayed gratification

Working through natural under-stimulation builds self-regulation, delayed gratification, grit, and resilience - core foundations for academic, social, and life success. Kids develop perspective and motivation as they learn to self-soothe through restless lulls instead of being rescued by entertainment.

2. The ability to be in the present moment

Boredom even nurtures the ability to simply be present. With lives so often hurried from one scheduled activity to the next, these quiet pockets teach children how to embrace stillness, mindfulness, and self-awareness. This comfort with one's own company cultivates emotional intelligence.

3. Forming meaningful connections

Fighting against childhood boredom can rob kids of gaining invaluable traits for social engagement. As parents, we need to normalize "un-stimulation" and help raise children primed for meaningful connection with themselves and the world around them.

Becoming Okay with Our Children’s Boredom

The idea of the child getting bored may spark panic for parents accustomed to keeping kids constantly occupied for structured learning and enrichment. Leaving unscripted pockets of under-stimulation can feel tantamount to neglect. Here’s how parents can overcome this hesitation to embrace boredom as a natural part of growing up -

1. Providing the right balance 

Alternating focused family time and educational activities with sprinklings of unscheduled freedom throughout each week can help children embrace the freedom that comes with not running from one activity to another all week. It will also help them think beyond passive entertainment from the screens.

Every day let kids have free time and indulge.

2. Scheduling daily “free-time”

By weaving in bite-sized boredom breaks within a schedule that tends to children's core needs, parents can help kids build independent self-entertainment abilities. Even just 10-20 minutes daily of unstructured downtime works wonders for tapping into their creativity and keeps them productively engaged minus the screens.

3. Don’t fix something that’s not broken

The other key is reframing our mindsets around boredom. When your child first declares "I'm bored!", resist the urge to problem-solve instantly. Get curious instead! Remark on the open creative space they now have, prompting them to dream up ideas organically. Tell them about your own growing-up years and how you spent your time without screens and with other human beings.

Include screen-free family fun time!

4. Walk the Talk

When children see their parents constantly connected to devices, being distracted, and filling in every free minute with some activity or the other, they will certainly emulate that as well. Let your children see you embracing boredom and enjoying the bliss of doing nothing. Sit and stare at the sunset together. Play ‘I spy’ sitting on the balcony. Let them see you soaking in the moment.

In conclusion, a validating, non-judgmental approach helps children embrace boredom with curiosity. Parents must model that unstructured time is not something to fear or fix, but an invitation to channel one's inner genius. 

So, next time the cry of "I'm sooo bored!" echoes through your home, take a breath and resist the instinct to re-stimulate. Trust in the fertile potential unfolding, giving your child's brilliant imaginative capacities room to blossom from the quiet stillness.

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How to transform your defiant child into a cooperative one?

A defiant child disobeys, talks back, resents, and does not listen to parents at home and/or teachers in the classroom. It is a normal part of child development especially when kids are at toddler stage or in adolescence. Also, every parent has to experience this phase but to varying degrees.

Dealing with a defiant child is hard!

However, the noncompliance mode of the child constantly puts the parent in a fix. Every time the answer one hears is negative. The growing temper tantrums and defiant attitude of the child as young as two make the parent go crazy. Unfortunately, the frustration of parents only spoils the atmosphere as they cannot reach the right solution which can bring about an amicable environment in the house. 

Moreover, sometimes, the child is too small to understand the reason behind the instruction. On the other hand, the parents fail to see beyond the disobedience and ultimately yell and feel helpless at such times.

If you are one such parent, wondering how to handle your defiant child then first discover what causes defiance in children. Read on to know the causes.

Causes of Defiance in Children

Here are causes that are responsible for defiance among children-

Kids are testing your limits

When you set boundaries and rules, your kid may try to test whether you mean it or not. If they get away without any consequence you had specified, they are going to disobey. 

Kids copy the behavior

Sometimes, young children watch such behavior on TV. shows and want to try the same. Higher exposure to programs and video games that depict aggression or defiance may cause children to follow the attitude.

They are experiencing big emotions

Big emotion may cause disobedience in children

Toddlers and young kids do not understand big feelings and they don't know how to process such emotions. They may feel overwhelmed, angry, frustrated, or disappointed and may display aggressive behavior.

Kids may have needs that are not met

Kids may feel tired, thirsty, angry, or sleepy and they don't know how to explain the same. They express their needs by acting out/ throwing tantrums.

Kids crave attention

Kids crave attention especially when you have guests at home or you are on a call. Throwing tantrums or hitting other kids is an easy way for them to seek your attention!

Tweens or preteens demand independence

Kids in preteens rebel to prove their abilities to think and act on their own. They want to do things in their own way and that's why they may disrespect you, break your rules, or argue a lot. Even toddlers show such acts to prove their independence.

They may have mental health issues

Sometimes, mental health issues such as ADHD are the reason behind kids being a rebel or argumentative. Disobedience and defiance can be a symptom of disruptive behavior disorder, oppositional defiant disorder ( ODD), or mood disorders.

                      

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How to Discipline Defiant Child?

Almost every other parent is searching for solutions to deal with their defiant or disobedient child.  The daily power tussles create an environment of unhappiness and stress at home.

It is quite a common scenario in most families where the parents do not know how to restore happiness and peace at home. Being hard with kids, scolding or punishing the defiant child does not bring in desired results?

Then, what can you do?

To overcome such instances and build a loving connection between you and your children, here are 10 parenting tips to discipline a defiant child effectively, read the following now-

Check the unmet needs of your child

Check if your child is overtired, hungry, or sleepy. Treat them accordingly. Encourage them to take a nap, drink water, or eat something. This would naturally mellow down their misbehavior and later you can talk to them about what to do in such a situation.

Understand their triggers

Understand when they defy often such as when things are done hurriedly. Or anything that they don't like and they throw tantrums. When you can get their pattern, you can easily take measures to avoid their misbehavior.

Set clear boundaries

Punishing defiant child is not solution!

State your expectations clearly and firmly. Also, mention the consequences if kids do not follow. However, set age-appropriate guidelines such as "put your toys back in the box" instead of "clean your room" for a 5-year-old.

In case, the child does not follow through, take the action that you had intimated to them before.

Stay calm during big emotions

Staying calm and gentle becomes more important when your child is going through big emotions. When your child yells back, you need to be calm in the storm. Your kind words can put their fears to rest and they are likely to follow your guidelines.

On the other hand, an angry tone cannot calm down an angry, defiant child!

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Treat them the way you want to be treated

Some days you may have a bad mood or bad circumstances and you may expect people to be gentle with you. The same applies to your child. They may have a bad day at school or disappointment while playing. Treat them well with kindness and speak lovingly. This would help them to learn good behavior even when they are in a bad mood.

Give them choices

Nobody likes to be controlled. When you ask them to follow your instructions, they may feel a lack of freedom to decide for themselves. To deal with this situation with your defiant child, give them choices so that they feel in control.

When children get to decide what they want, they won't show defiant behavior.

Try to strike a deal

Using logic may help when your kid is defiant and does not listen. You can show them the consequences if they continue their behavior and what would they lose. If they agree to follow how they can benefit and what you can do as per their liking.

For example, if your child does not want to go home after playing, they won't get to see their favorite show on time. But if they decide to leave after 5 minutes, then they will get to watch TV.

Appreciate the good behavior

Another way to get the defiant kid to listen to you is by appreciating the good in them. Compliment them for their efforts and good behavior. You may say-

"Your help means a lot to me."

"You are doing this so well."

" I saw you have been kind to your younger sister, that's amazing!"

Include Positive Reinforcements

When your child complies with your instruction, reward them with some kind of token. You may create a reward chart wherein they get points/ stars for every acceptable behavior. This would encourage the child to obey and behave well.

Set an example

Listen to your child with full attention. Keep aside your mobile phone while playing with them. When you give adequate attention, you will see a drop in tantrums and in defiant behavior. 

Also, check your responses when you are angry, or frustrated. When you choose to be kind and calm in a tough situation, kids learn and imitate the same behavior.

The above defiant child strategies would help you to handle your child better and maintain a stress-free atmosphere at home. In fact, now you can experience the following-

1. your defiant child saying yes to your instructions
2. converting bad moods of the child into happy mood
3. averting tantrum scenes in public places
4. initiating good behavior in kids
5. instilling the feeling of love and security among the children
6. replacing frustration with a peaceful environment

FAQs Related to Defiance Behavior in Children

What if the above parenting strategies do not work?

If the above strategies do not work to reduce defiance behavior in your child, then consult your child's pediatrician.

I suspect an underlying mental health issue with my child, what should I do?

An expert mental health professional can evaluate the emotional issues in your child that are causing behavioral problems.

Does defiance behavior mean Oppositional Defiant Disorder in my child?

Toddlers and teenagers often defy the instructions of their elders. It does not mean they have any mental health condition. Also, at times kids are focused on one activity, and asking them to switch to the next task is hard. It is not always defiance or a mental health concern while raising children.


Follow the above parenting tips to transform your defiant child into a cooperative one and say bye to parenting stress.

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