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    Well-rounded child: Chinese parents strap helmets on babies to reshape their heads

    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A new beauty trend is catching on among Chinese parents — head rounding — yet it is not the parents themselves but their babies who are undergoing skull reshaping.


    Taking advantage of the window when their children's soft heads are more malleable, parents are taking to social media to discuss and try out various products that promise to “correct a baby’s head shape,” according to a recent report by the South China Morning Post (SCMP). These products range from pillows to headgear, as seen on Chinese e-commerce site T-Mall.


    The SCMP report features one mother’s struggle to perfect her baby’s head. After growing frustrated with the infant's refusal to sleep on its side, she got some “head correction gear” custom-made for her child.

    The solution was a kind of molded helmet that specialists created after they wrapped the baby’s head in plaster to get a precise measure of the cranium. Though the headpiece can be removed, it is meant to stay clamped onto the baby’s head for most of the day so as to “guide” its shape just like retainers do for children’s teeth.


    “I have a flat head, and I know how painful it is for women,” the mother revealed in an online forum. “I don’t want my kid to grow up and regret this part of herself,” per the report.


    Some netizens cited supported her, saying, “The suffering now is for a beautiful head in the future. Your baby will grow up appreciating your hard work!”


    Ironically, Chinese parents in past generations did all they could to stop their kids from getting round heads. Flat heads and broad foreheads were traditionally considered auspicious in China.


    Parents in the past would force children to snooze with their heads on books or wooden boards to flatten the back of their heads, suggesting that although aesthetics may have changed, the time-honored tradition of making babies suffer for beauty lives on.

    Well-rounded child: Chinese parents strap helmets on babies to reshape their heads | Taiwan News | 2021-11-02 14:54:00

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    a paper bag might be more suitable.

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    Well-rounded child: Chinese parents strap helmets on babies to reshape their heads-1635835962-6180e03ae62f8-jpg

    I wish they just got a puppy instead ... they obviously think their baby is a pet.

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    Dear oh dear they are sick fuckers, aren't they? And hoohoo thinks they're "educated".


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    it used to be foot binding.

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    Thank goodness TD doesn't have any representatives from China who've clearly received repeated bangs on the head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Thank goodness TD doesn't have any representatives from China who've clearly received repeated bangs on the head.
    they all had their brains transplanted up their ARSE.

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    If there's a medical reason . . . why not . . . but this being China . . .



    It's unknown how much this woman paid for her baby's head mold, but the Chinese news site Sohu reported that such devices can cost about $4,300.
    Separately, the Alibaba-owned shopping portal Taobao, China's answer to Amazon, sells a variety of head-correction devices for babies. These range from $20 head-shape-correcting pillows to $3 versions of the head-correction helmets to $15 sleeping mats to prevent infants from sleeping in ways that might "cause a flat head."

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    Child abuse pure and simple!
    Sick fookers!

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    Femmales and Roundheads. Maybe Uncle Xi has a point.

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    Though I am not a doctor, I did play doctor a lot when I was a kid with any girl that would let me, so.
    I don't see how it would hurt the babies. If a round head is Attractive in China , go for it. one advantage is that your head could double as a bowling bowl.
    Personally, being practical , I would go more for the pointy forehead, as it significantly improves the aerodynamics and would improve my gas mileage.
    Another procedure they should look into would be Penis-enlargement, but again being the practical men that I am, I would only do it for boys.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    Fuck aesthetics, future retardism is more worrying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Another procedure they should look into would be Penis-enlargement,
    Chinese men desperately need it.

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    [QUOTE=cyrille;4327434]Thank goodness TD doesn't have any representatives from China who've clearly received repeated bangs on the head.[/QUOTE

    Pot. Kettle. black.

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