What is the importance of a child's first haircut? What does it symbolize or represent?

This is for an English paper about 'rites of passage' or initiation rituals, and i am not sure exactly what the importance is.What is the importance of a child's first haircut? What does it symbolize or represent?
';Hair'; you go! This will be helpful:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_hairc



Focusing on just the significance to one group--Jewish ceremony of ';upsherin'; you can investigate it further in here:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsherin



Now you have your writing material.



Good luck!What is the importance of a child's first haircut? What does it symbolize or represent?
It symbolizes he will be able to see without hair in his eyes. That's it.

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