Re: heathens/workplace henna
Posted by Anne on July 22, 1999 at 20:39:10:
In Reply to: Re: heathens/workplace henna posted by Amy C on July 22, 1999 at 17:49:32:
: I know my Mom is afraid to let her henna show at work because the
kids will think that if it's OK for her it's OK for them, then they
will be asking their parents for body art & the parents will
complain. (She's a teacher.) I guess parents think that henna is the
gateway body art, like pot is the gateway drug.
I work in school with the younger children (k-4), and they are *so*
into the temporary tattoos - my henna is more mysterious than not
when they do see it. (Though I did have to tell some pre-schoolers
that it was not marker and that markers were best used on paper
rather than skin.)
My friends with young children don't really mind when I pull out the
body paint and draw on them (the children - not the parents, at
least, not usually), but it's more a weekend thing - nothing they'd
send thier kids to school with. Then again, my friends are on the
untraditional side . . .
---Anne