Conversation in the car, on the way to an author talk:

14: Didn't you do your hair before you came to this?
Me: What's wrong with my hair?
14: You should, like, do it more. Especially when you're going to something in public like this.
Me: This is the way my hair always looks.
14: (Eyes roll) I know.
Me: How do you think I should, like, do it instead?
14: You know, curl it, or straighten it or something?
Me: Curl it or straighten it? Why can't I just leave it with its natural curl?
14: It would look better if you did it.
Me: I like it natural. I like your hair natural, too.
14: Mom!

I am also lazy. My idea of "doing" my hair these days consists in putting a little hair wax on my fingers and running them through the ends. That gets done about half the time. Maybe less. Whenever I go into a hairdresser and they ask me what I want my hair to look like, I always think (though never say)--can you cut it so that it looks good if all I do is comb it out of the shower? Because let's be realistic, people, that's all that's going to happen a lot of the time.

And to 14, sweety, in the time that I could have spent doing my hair, I was doing the laundry and driving you to your dance lesson and your voice lesson and also earning the money to pay for them. Gladly.