Top Knot

I took a picture of this student, his English name is Little Thomas, as we have two Thomas's in this class, because he has a traditional top knot for a hair style. There are two students at my school that have this hair style. It is a very old traditional superstition where Thai people believe if you don't cut a piece of a boys hair they will stay healthy. If they cut it they believe the child will get sick. They usually cut it off when the boy becomes a teenager. This child has two that was tied together to make one pony tail. Sometimes they just have one and they can be placed anywhere on their head from the back, to the side, to the top, wherever... It is not a common practice anymore, but very traditional families still do this to their male children.