she does ballet and it really is nice for her to have the 'bun' when everyone else does.
We had it bobbed for a bit but the bun really suffered! (normally I wouldn't care about that either, but she LOVES ballet and is so serious about it, I want her to have the whole package, and I think she does too...)
We had the "you can't cut your hair because of ballet" issue, too. We're fortunate enough to have lots of studios in the area, and found one that has a very loose dress code - kids come in just about anything, and which pretty much every hairstyle and length imaginable, which helped a lot. When half the kids have too-short-to-bun hair, no one feels left out without a bun.
