为了给儿子留长发，这位妈妈也是拼了

A mother in the UK is considering extreme measures to prevent her son from being kicked out of school over his prized hair.

英国一位母亲正在考虑采取极端措施，以防止她的儿子因为头发被学校开除。

Bonnie Miller, whose 8-year-old son Farouk James has more than 260,000 followers on Instagram, says she may declare the boy “nonbinary” just so he can keep his lush, waist-length locks while in school. Miller is putting schools on blast for the “outdated practice” of barring boys from having long hair, she tells the Daily Mail.

邦妮·米勒(Bonnie Miller) 8岁的儿子法鲁克·詹姆斯(Farouk James)在Instagram上有超过26万名粉丝，她说她可能会宣布这个男孩是“非双性恋”，这样他上学时就可以留着齐腰的浓密头发了。米勒在接受《每日邮报》采访时表示，学校禁止男生留长发的“过时做法”正在引起轩然大波。

“Applying for a mixed[-sex] school, I may just put him down as non-binary,” says Miller, 41, who had been searching for the right school to place her son. “I have been trying to think of loopholes, and think how can I get him in.”

41岁的米勒一直在寻找合适的学校来安置她的儿子。“我一直在想各种各样的漏洞，想怎样才能把他弄进去。”

She claims the dress code, which is common among secondary schools in the UK, is sexist: “The mixed schools I have been looking at have policies which clearly differentiate between boys and girls.”

她声称，英国中学普遍存在的着装规定是性别歧视的:“我一直关注的混合型学校，其政策明显区分男孩和女孩。”

Miller has launched a petition asking Parliament to prohibit schools from enforcing the policy, which has nearly 1,000 signatures already. She also claims to have the children’s psychological well-being in mind: “I thought, ‘I have to do something about this, children’s mental health is more important.’ ”

米勒发起了一项请愿，要求议会禁止学校执行这项政策，目前已有近1000人签名。她还说，她考虑到了孩子们的心理健康:“我想，‘我得做点什么，孩子们的心理健康更重要。’”

“We are told we are supposed to be tolerant, and embrace diversity,” Miller, from Fulham, West London said. “However this policy teaches children that they cannot be different.”

来自西伦敦富勒姆的米勒说:“我们被教导要宽容，要拥抱多样性。”“然而，这项政策告诉孩子们，他们不可能与众不同。”

She continues, “Why are we teaching — at such a young age — that long hair means there is something wrong with these children?”

她继续说道:“为什么我们要在这么小的年龄就开始教育孩子们长发意味着他们有问题呢?”

Miller, a photographer, added that her son also has no interest in cutting his hair.

米勒是一名摄影师，她补充说，她的儿子也对剪头发没有兴趣。

“Parents have shown me they have had to chop their child’s hair off, and the devastation it has caused,” she explained. “It’s a part of their identity. You are asking someone to take away a huge part of themselves, to fit into what is socially expected.”

她解释说:“父母们告诉我，他们不得不把孩子的头发剪掉，这造成了巨大的破坏。”“这是他们身份的一部分。你是在要求一个人把自己的大部分去掉，以适应社会的期望。”

Farouk has already traveled to cities such as New York and Florence, Italy, to showcase his enviable mane on behalf of children’s fashion brands such as Guess.

法鲁克已经前往纽约和意大利佛罗伦萨等城市，代表Guess等儿童时尚品牌展示他令人羡慕的“鬃毛”。

“Farouk globally can be himself, and be appreciated for who he is through Instagram,” says the mom-of-three. “But locally he is not accepted.”

这位三个孩子的母亲说:“在全球范围内，法鲁克可以做他自己，也可以通过Instagram来欣赏他。”“但在当地，他不被接受。”

According to Miller, strangers have mistaken her son for a girl, but Farouk is unfazed by the gaffe.

根据米勒的说法，陌生人把她的儿子误认为是女孩，但法鲁克并没有因此失言。

The young model was just 2 years old when his mother set up an Instagram for him, after another Instagram influencer allegedly used his image without their permission. Now, Miller and Farouk take great pains to preserve his curly coiffure, including washing with Evian mineral water.

这名年轻的模特只有两岁时，他的母亲就为他建立了一个Instagram账号，此前有另一位Instagram名人未经允许使用了他的照片。现在，米勒和法鲁克花了很大力气来保持他的卷发，包括用依云矿泉水洗头发。

“He’s become a role model for children, for boys with long hair,” said the mom-of-three, who also runs the Instagram account @BadMotherBlogger with some 10,500 followers. “Parents say they refer to Farouk’s page to give their child confidence.”

“他已经成为孩子们的榜样，成为留长发的男孩的榜样，”这位三个孩子的母亲说。“家长们说他们会参考法鲁克的网页来给孩子们信心。”

She says, “I’ve cried numerous times because, just from me allowing him to be himself, he has changed other children’s lives.”

她说:“我哭过很多次，因为仅仅是我允许他做他自己，他就改变了其他孩子的生活。”