Sometimes, just sometimes, men can be useful with getting kids ready.   We tend to want to reinvent the wheel and make shortcuts for everything.  Trust me, my dad was a shop teacher, and he had had to create a new way of doing the most basic of tasks, but that's another story all together.

This ingenious dad has come up with a way to make the perfect ponytail for his little girl.  It involves a vacuum and some All-American ingenuity.  It's a short video, but it could be very helpful, especially if you have a few little girls you are trying to get ready all at once for any occasion.

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