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Not every couple will see eye to eye regarding co- parenting decisions. However, one father has shared how he allowed his daughter to shave off her hair despite his wife's pleas not to.

Whilst you might anticipate people would criticise his choice, some have actually commended him for supporting his daughter properly.

Posting on Reddit, the dad revealed that his eight-year-old daughter Anna* possessed extremely thick, blonde, curly locks that reached beyond her waist.

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Although Anna despised her hair, her mother was "obsessed" with it and opposed any attempts to have it trimmed.

"Ever since she was a toddler, (my wife would) spend hours doing her hair every day, braiding it, straightening it and styling it in all sorts of ways," he penned.

"Our bathroom cabinets are always filled to the brim with a bunch of hair lotions, oils, creams and other fancy products.", reports the Mirror.

Anna, nevertheless, has never particularly enjoyed having her hair styled.

"While it looked lovely, she hated getting it brushed and every morning used to be a screaming fest between her and my wife," he explained.

"Lately, she'd been begging for a shorter haircut. My wife ignored her whenever the topic was brought up in hopes that she'd forget about it, but none of that ended up happening."

Making no progress with her mum, Anna approached her father to accompany her instead.

"I was reluctant to at first because I didn't know how my wife would react, but I agreed when I saw just how excited the kid was over something as simple as a haircut," he said.

So whilst his wife was at work, the man took his daughter to the hairdresser.

"She got to flip through a lot of magazines and pick a picture of a haircut. And when she chose a really short clipper cut, I knew I was gonna be in deep s*** with my wife," he wrote.

"At that point though, there was no turning back. I mean, what could I have really done? Told her that no, she can't get the haircut she was so over the moon about?".

"By the end of it, Anna couldn't stop smiling. She went around the salon showing it off to everyone and even asked me to take a bunch of pictures even though she normally hates having pictures taken of her," he wrote.

"We did get one rude comment from an older woman at the salon, something along the lines of 'You can't even tell if she's a boy or a girl now', but Anna was way too excited about her hair to notice."

When he arrived home with his daughter, his wife was livid.

"She refused to even look at Anna, locked herself in her room and cried then got in the car and drove off," he said.

"I knew she wouldn't react well to the haircut but I wasn't expecting her to take it this badly. The kid's upset too and no matter how much I reassure her she still thinks she's in trouble for getting her hair cut.

"I realise how attached my wife was to Anna's hair, but at the end of the day I still think it's just hair. The kid's old enough to decide these things for herself and she was really happy with the haircut."

Reddit users were swift to weigh in on the man's predicament, and whilst many argued he was wrong to act behind his wife's back, others believed he'd done right by his daughter.

One commenter said: "She sounds like she considers her daughter a Barbie doll to play with and doesn't even consider her a human with feelings. Wife needs therapy."

Another posted: "What your wife has been doing and is continuing to do is sending the message to Anna that her body is not her own, and despite her own desires, she should put other people's feelings about what she does with her body first. Is this really the message you want your daughter learning?".

However, a third contributor suggested: "Soft [you're the a**hole], but not for letting the kid have a haircut she wanted, that part is fine. For not taking the time and effort to sit down with your wife first and talk it out, try and see why she was so attached to the hair, try and get her to see that it's really the kid's call, look for a solution."