Why Do We Have Hair?
One day, when my niece and I were playing at home when suddenly she asked me a question. We all know that children at the age of 2 to 5 years have lots of questions that comes into their minds; the 4w’s what, when, where and who. So she asked “Why do we have hair?” Oh my, what a question really of course, they won’t stop asking until we can answer their questions. And just explaining to her that it is God’s creation for our crowning glory. And she said “ah, ok.” Thank God for she’s not asking another question for honestly speaking it’s hard for me to explain to her. Though she seemed not satisfied of my answer, at least I made her stop on asking.
And for that I have a lesson to learn, that being a book lover, you’ll learn many things and what you’ve learned you can share it to others especially to the children. Why I’m this, for I have read a book and I was interested in this topic about the kid and his dad. I was imagining myself on the shoes of this father when my nephew asked same questions. I found the answer of her question, about why do we have hair? It says: Unlike most other mammals, humans do not have thick layer of fur covering the body. Some believe as our ancestors developed sweat glands to cool the body, natures protective overcoat thinned. But we did keep dense patches of follicles around our most vulnerable areas-a clever idea hairs on our heads, for instances protect us from the sun and insulates us form cold.
As for the body’s other clumps of hair-those under arms around the crotch-they entirely different purpose. They carry odors produced by our bodies pheromones, the chemicals secreted to attract mates.
Because she can not understand this at her age yet, so I manage explain in the most simple and understandable way.
