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?

take that big ole cross off your back stop acting maligned

now as you were

are you taking her to hairdresser sat see what can be done.sure they can fix ehr up and clever use of hairbands etc will disguise the fringe

It could have been be worse. When I was at school, a little boy allowed his friend to cut off one of his eyebrows.

Oh dear - I wonder what they used for that? Do you think it was plastic scissors? I can't imagine how you'd even begin.

My DH once cut off is own eyelashes when he was little (they're really long and apparently he got a bit fed up with all the comments).

You can cut hair with scissors that cut paper. I have kknown other 4 year olds to do this, it doesn't really take long to cut hair

When I was at school a boy (7) cut off a girls plait ( she was 6),the headmaster expelled the boy and the girl was withdrawn from school, she was really traumatised by it all. . I think i would flip if anyone cut my dd's hair.

I was angry enough at the sharpie pen all over her t shirt this week!

Hope your dd is alright.

Eyebrows grow reletively quickly as they only need to grow a centimetre long to look normal though, so that isn't a great comparison really.

They grow relatively quickly too!

And eyelashes take six weeks to grow back, if anyone's interested.

A distant relative plucked her eyelashes out because she'd seen her mum do it ~ except of course she hadn't, she'd seen her mum pluck her eyebrows!

Solo - sometimes eyebrows do Not grow back. I worked with someone who had her eyebrows plucked as a teenager and they never ever grew back.

That is awful. I would go mental. I know it is not right but the mother of the offending child and the teacher would both feel my wrath. I would not be able to help it.

Only read the first page of this thread, but did the school give you the chopped off hair?

A huge bit of DD's hair came out when we were trying to remove a bead wrap she got on holiday. We have kept it and she enjoys taking it out and looking at it.

When she's older her hair may be darker and she will enjoy looking at her blond hair

I think that that is unusual though cakefrenzy. It took about 20 years of plucking mine before they hardly grew in the plucked places.

I'd be upset if someone cut DD's hair but then again she has a pixie crop anyway so has not alot of hair to cut. She does look very very cute with a pixie crop and it's all the rage (Would just like to point out DD had hers first, she is such a trend setter already at the grand age of 4)

If a child has had that much hair cut off then they were a willing participant . And perhaps your girl-children aren't quite as keen on their flowing tresses as you are?

I always find these threads a bit WTF. But I don't have girls

My DTDs and their friend did this to each other nearly a year ago at nursery. The other mother hasn't spoken to be since. Everyone else agrees that she is a nutter - FGS - it's something that kids do. My Dsis and I did eachother's when we were 3 and 5, whilst at home.

You can't blame the teacher. This sort of thing rarely involves any malice - it's just kids playing and not being old enough to realise that once it's gone, it's gone. Zukiecat - I am that you reckon you've never experienced or heard of this happening EVER. Really? I know several kids who've done it(including my own, obv)

OP - it's just one of those things. Once you're over the shock, you'll realise that. My DTD1 had hers cut at the front, down to the hairline, and there wasn't much we could do - just clips and bands, and she had an odd spiky fringe for while. DTD2's was chopped in a patch on top. That still makes neat ponytails tricky, but it's really no biggie.

Please don't go storming up to the school, any more than you would if your DD came home with a grazed knee after falling in the playground.

eviltwins the other mother would probably approve of your MN name

My mum and her sis decided to cut one of them a fringe (not sure which way round), when it went wrong they hid the hair in a vase and thought their mum wouldn't notice the tufts at the front of her head.

It is 'one of those things', it does happen and does not mean that a teacher has been irresponsible. I know a learning goal at some point was that a child could access and sort materials and tools needed to complete a self chosen activity, therefore they should be able to access scissors, glue, paper, wool anything on their own. I worked with a teacher with 30 odd years experience and I am sure in her time there were a fair few hair cutting incidents. That doesn't lesson the upset a mum may feel, but what is done is done, time to move on and make the best of it.

Oh Eviltwins - I remember your thread about that and your friend saying something about it being worse for her as her DD had better hair

Honestly if a parent had a go at another parent over this - well they'd make themselves look like a loon.

Its unfortunate but it does happen a lot as all the posts on this thread show.

Eviltwins a voice of reason! I find all the hand wringing and threats of vengeance really really odd. Its only hair for gods sake it will grow back.

I've never known it happen either, actually - either when I was at school or now I have my own DCs.

This happened to my dd. But she was 8, and I was more livid because children at that age know better. Unfortunately nothing could be done because they couldn't find the culprit (she didn't realise it had happened, but she is somewhat dipsy!) She had her suspicions but obv couldn't prove anything. I was very upset but she was pleased with her new bobbed hairdo and it's grown again really quickly.

Blaming the teacher is daft. Even if 4 adults in the room it's impossible to watch every child all the time. This sort of incident can happen in seconds. But OP I feel your pain, it was horrible.

I really can't read 6 pages of posts but WHERE DID THE CHILDREN GET THE SCISSORS FROM?!?!?! In a classroom? That are sharp enough to cut chunks of hair? At age 4?

I would be going fricking mad about this and rightly so IMO because this is not felt-tips on the nose, this is not coming home with someone else's socks on, this shows an enormous lack of supervision, involving scissors, of these youngsters.