To consider leaving my DD with her self done haircut?

[HugADalek]

She found my pube scissors in the bathroom, a tiny little pair of blunt ended disposable medical scissors from a first aid kit, hidden in the toothbrush holder. I'd forgotten they were there to be honest being single and all

She gets up in the middle of night a lot, and was up last night giving herself a haircut (I didn't hear her). I was growing her fringe out and it was down to her chin and starting to stay up in a ponytail. Now it's above her eyebrows.

Would you leave it or take it to be tidied by a professional straight away?

Take the poor child for a haircut. Put the scissors away better next time. She's obviously the creative sort. :)

How old is she?
I cut my own hair when I was 12/13. I put it in a ponytail and just cut. Looked bloody awful!! I did it because I was forbidden to have my hair cut, and was not going to be taken to the hairdressers. It was a hot summer, and my hair was super thick!
After I'd done it, I was still not taken to the hairdressers. My mum decided that my older sister should 'sort it'. She was not a hairdresser, or training to be one, nor did she have any interest in hairdressing. Needless to say, the outcome was not particularly great.
I'm all for letting kids suffer consequence, but if it's going to effect her socially, I would probably take her to a professional.
(You also have to be sure you don't mind being seen in public with it looking how it is with people maybe assuming you've done it).

Depends on her/ ability to understand her actions really. My dd cut half her fringe when she was 6 and old enough to know better. Tbh I was crosser that she lied about it ( said a boy at school did it - felt such a fool when I mentioned it to the teacher, who, on investigation, got dd to confess she'd done it herself!)

I left dd's to grow out so she had to explain why her fringe was wonky to everyone- sho got very fed up

With a child who really wouldn't understand I would probably get it cut for your own sanity.

Depends how old she is.

Also it was YOU that left scissors laying around.

It probably won't bother her - As she isn't the one looking at it, you will be though.

Hugadalek - you have another thread going saying that you are really short of money this month, so I would just chuck it in an Alice band

He he he, I did that myself when I was little. Can't remember what my mum did though

My daughter's hair, very long and all one length, was cut by her friend playing beauty salons when she was in reception. I didn't feel they were old enough to know better and they were clearly very upset with the results of what they had done. I think there is an irresistible fascination for small girls in having a go at doing this; I would try and see it as a rite of passage.

DD's hair was repaired by the manager of my normal salon for a token price - unexpectedly she actually refused to charge full whack due to the horror of what had happened! We immediately had to start growing the fringe back out as DD has terrible hay fever and it irritated her eyes even more to have fringe carrying pollen near them but at least she looked presentable whilst we did so.

She's nearly four. You think I'd have learned, I've been through and DD-proofed many times and she always finds something to get into trouble with. I've gone so grey in the past four years, her brain works in strange ways, you think you've worked her out and made it safe, and she finds a stump of crayon that rolled under a unit, and you have art all over the walls.

Aaaah! Bless her, I know that is annoying but it is also very cute! Yes, I would take her to get it tidied up.

Her brain doesn't work in strange ways, it works exactly like a 4 year old's brain should!

I gave my self the mumsnet hair cut on Tuesday ......... an hour later I was in the hairdressers !

Awww - get her hair sorted out at the hairdresser, yes.
Wee monkey!

I would imagine you could tidy a fringe yourself? Sometimes I think young DC's this age act before they think - she probably just thought she'd like a fringe and so cut - no malice involved.

Her brother wasn't like this at all. Lulled into a false sense of security. She has a birthday party today, so I think I'll have to get it sorted or be the talk of the nursery.

And no, I barely trust myself to trim my own pubes hair. I have arthritic, shaky hands. Won't risk her beautiful face, much as she likes to herself.

To be honest I would find this hilarious. Practically every child I know (and I have 60 cousins younger than I, and used to be a primary teacher so I know a lot of children) has done this at some point. Every single terms in reception/year 1 a child would come in looking "interesting". She was just experimenting, no real harm done, hair grows back. Now if she did it a second time I would let her soldier on in fashion hell.

You keep pube scissors in your toothbrush holder? Eeeew.

Yeah, I don't keep toothbrushes in there if that helps? Just things that I want to hide from sight, like pube scissors and toenail clippers and nit combs. Don't worry, I wash everything like that after use, it's not covered in curlies.

Aaah what a cutey!

Take her to the hairdressers and let her choose her own style