to be upset that my dd age 4 came out of school with half her hair cut off!!: (

[armani]

GRRRRRRRR! just need to rant! my dd has beautiful long blonde hair,today she came out of school and somelittle *** has cut her hair!!!!at the front it is awful cut down to the root and at the back her pony tail has been mostly cut off :(

im so upset for my dd, why would another child do this?

Well what have the school got to say about it ?

I think if my DD had done that to another child I'd be offering the mother the price of a haircut to ease my guilt.

Agree with Belle on the hairband though.

Why are hairbands not allowed?

Well lets see one group of children lets say, five or 6, sit at a table doing an activity whilst the others play when those children are finished another lot take a turn.

Was that really difficult to work out?

How do people not see this as a problem.

Its only a matter of time before one school bully does some real harm to another kids will you all say thats just kids being kids and playing with scissors?

poor you!no not right of passage at all.no wonder you livid.do complain.vociferiously

damaged clothes
mess
...no biggie

hacked hair,very big deal

Ok, I have a different opinion and I know that I am often out of sync with British thinking on risk management (I don't even know the translation of that in German, and I lived there for 18 years).

Children learn to use scissors. When the whole class does a craft activity they all use scissors at the same time.

I fail to see why having one table using scissors while the other 25 DC play is safer. Is the teacher not going to be more distracted by that?

And there is no reason to be rude, redflag.

My Gran used to run a reception class of 4 to 5 year olds and they would have everyone using scissors but in groups of 6 at a time, there is a TA who can supervise one group whilst the teacher keeps the other 24 occupied and then they rotate surely ?
I'm shocked with the lack of resources there are actually 30 pairs of scissors, we only had 12 pairs when I was a girl and we had to share.

If the other child cut both the front and the back, your DD must have been a willing accomplice.
YABU PFB and vain

nasty post.how is this a pfb issue?ma walton would sweat this

come on,wee lassie emerges mangled hair.of course she is upset

I don't think that she is being unreasonable to be upset, in a "Oh, God, what have you done now" way.

It is unreasonable to blame the teacher or to cry for an hour because of it.

It is hair. It will grow back.

Totally agree with the post saying it will grow back. It's hair- I can't believe anyone would be 'devastated' as some have claimed. If that's the worst you ever have to worry about then lucky you!
Also agree with poster commenting on pencils... I'm sure they are at least as dangerous as safety scissors yet no-one seems desperate for them to be 'supervised use only'!

I cant believe people keep saying it's common...it's not common for kids to cut OTHER kids hair! Maybe to have a go at their own...but I have never heard of another child doing this to that extent!

I wuld be FUMING! It is not normal at all.

If the child has cut both the back and the front then she must have had quite a time to hack away...I am on your and your DDS behalf!

this isnt common,isnt a suck it up thing,aye hair grows alright.slowly

mum right to be gutted

I chopped a huge section out of my sister's hair when we were little - right in the middle of her fringe. She looked ridiculous for quite a long time.

We laugh about it now - in fact I think it was mentioned in my dad's speech at her wedding.

My son and a little girl he was sitting beside both cut their hair to the scalps.. They were supposed to be cutting collage fish..
Maybe its becuse he's a boy and he was so shocked at being in trouble (normally a very well behaved little boy!) that all I could do was give him a big hug thank him for telling the truth and take him straight to the barbers to fix it up..
Big brother thought it was so funny he'd have a go (at home with stoopid plastic ELC zig-zag scisors) and then the older two cut the baby's hair in the two mins I was in the loo..
Crew cuts all round.
Now they are all a little more aware scissors are not toys!
Glad it looks better now.

dh and i left our dd1 (4) and dd2 (2) for i think maybe 90 seconds and it was long enough for the four year old to scalp her sister.
like you say, hair right down to the root, probably in dd's case about 9 deep cuts all over her head. (not cut cuts, snips of hair i mean).

anyway. a minute and a half was all it took, swear to god.

this was about eight weeks ago. the only thing we could do was just get her a pixie cut, very jeanne seberg, and keep getting it trimmed when the clumps start standing up.

it was a shock at first, but it does really suit her, and i can envisage having her hair shorter now, definitely.

as to why dd1 did it, she had been to the hairdresser quite recently and HONESTLY thought she would do a great job and that we would all really like it. she was devastated when she realised what a mess she had made. so i wouldn't assume any malice behind it at all. big shock, though.

Haircutting incident in our reception last week while I was volunteering. One table of children with "sfety" scissors (so hysterical eye removing incident not very likely ). Teacher on another table teaching writing (presumably a good thing), TA supervising in another area of the room.

Not a lot of damage in this case because I spotted it quickly (was walking past).

Can't beleive people who think this isn;t common - surely it is - DS even managed to cut my hair once - the trick is to be suitably scary that they never do it again. Having seen teachers reaction in calss I doubt anyone in the class will do it again!

I'm far more vain about my DDs' hair than they are.

Mine looks like shit, but theirs is trimmed professionally every other month.

They have Tangle Teezers, mountains of baubles and absolutely gorgeous chesnet brown hair.

DD1's is thick and a bit wavy. It's flows down her back like melted brown sugar.

DD2's is poker straight and lighter than DD1s.

I adore their hair.

If and when they want to cut it, I'm going to privately cry.

If someone else cut it at school, I'd be well pissed-off.

chestnut, even.

pissed off that it happened, though, expat, or pissed off with the teacher?

Little girl down the road not only hacks at her own hair regularly, but last time decided to start on the family dog too...

YANBU to be unset that your DD's lovely locks are (temporarily) gone. YwouldBU if you blamed the teacher or the other child. This is very common. Out come the scissors and off comes a plait. To think that any malice, neglect or bullying was involved is way out of line.

Pissed off that it happened and the girl didn't scream, 'Get away from my hair! Do you know how much time and effort my mother puts into it?!'

It'll grow back, of course, but I love their long locks.

hehehe.

apparently dd2 said to dd1 'more haircut, dd2?', waited for an affirmative reply, then snipped. she went to the hairdresser today to get it cut again. you can confirm, i think, from fb, how DARLING her pixie cut looks...

I dread this happening to Dd's hair; I only trim her hair a maximum of twice a year as it's a nightmare to cut straight with all the curls...

Ds cut his hair once. He was about a week off turning 11 and was 4 or 5 weeks away from starting secondary school it was a mess! straight across at the front about half an inch from the roots. Duncan the barber said he'd seen it all before! I'd be surprised if he'd seen it all before on a child of Ds's age though!

Hope your Dd's hair doesn't look too bad after the hairdresser visit OP.