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to put hair clips in ds2 1.4 hair?

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 16:37

Ds2 has baby hair and I am trying to grow it long enough so it will keep behind his ears. However it is not quite long enough to do this yet but long enough to be flopping down in his eyes. Dp wants him to get a hair cut, but (a) i dont want ds to have a fringe and (b) if i cut it then it will never grow long enough to tuck behind his ears. At the moment I have used my nieces pink snap clips to keep his hair in place. Dp is not impressed. Is this really unreasonable. I will try and get black ones but dp still wont be happy. Any body got any other suggestions to keep ds hair out of his face?

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Sootie · 03/04/2012 17:33

OP, children's hair DOES NOT stay behind their ears!! It will go in his eyes and really dangerous when he starts using a swing. I broke my collar bone on the swing when I tried to pull the hair away from my eyes with both hands when I was younger . Cut it!!

SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:34

Yeah, put an alice band on him, that way he can pull it down around his neck. No way thats a problem

AgentZigzag · 03/04/2012 17:36

You're going to have to cut it OP.

It doesn't matter what it looks like!

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 17:40

What do little girls have in their hair to keep it out of the way? There must be a boyish similar alternative. There is nothing the matter with the shape of his skull, he just has hair that seems to naturally grow forward.

Sootie my other ds hair used to stay behind his ears. I went through this phase with him as well.

Worra, I didnt say that. We dont move everything that poses a risk to him out of the way, how else will he learn not to touch?

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SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:42

Tbh OP its sounds like you don't really want to be told any different to what you want/think whether its better for your ds or not.

Just do what YOU want!

naturalbaby · 03/04/2012 17:42

I grew ds2's hair for as long as possible, with a side parting and brushing it across several times a day. He had quite a cute whiff/curl but eventually it was just too scruffy and got the chop. I did spend all day trying to keep it brushed and tidy with illusions of long floppy hair but it just wasn't happening.

WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 17:43

You said you don't 'give him hair clips to play with'

But you do know he can choke on them whether you've given them to him to keep in his hair...or to play around with.

I'm absolutely sure I didn't have to explain that to you but there you go.

ObiWan · 03/04/2012 17:47

SparkyMcSparrow, not wanting to be awkward, but I can't for the life of me see how pulling an alice band off could be even remotely dangerous.

Or is there a world of alice band related injuries that has just passed me by?

RosemaryandThyme · 03/04/2012 17:48

How about keeping it long on top but close cutting the sides, you can have some quite fancy patterns cut into it these days and some footballers have this done too, might be worth looking in a few hair-style mags.

SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:52

Isn't a alice band just a giant hairband type thing? Hence it going round the neck and getting caught on something?

Maybe the op means what I would call a hairband, something you slide up that tuck in behind the ears, in which case I should think this is fine.

Either way, I still think it should be cut!

Pandemoniaa · 03/04/2012 17:54

Cut it. It won't grow long sensibly straight from baby hair anyway. Once you've taken some of the length off the chance is that it'll grow down quite quickly and thicken up as well.

15 month old dgd's hair is currently being grown long and has benefitted enormously from a first haircut and the creation of a proper fringe rather than random wisps of hair in her eyes. Be prepared that your ds might well have very different ideas about how he wants his hair though so your desire for him to have flowing locks might be short-lived.

AgentZigzag · 03/04/2012 17:54

An alice band is a circle of material, headband plastic half circle.

You could just cut it OP?

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 17:55

Sparky had you read my thread i think you will find i was asking for alternatives to clips and cutting his hair. And I have had a few, so thanks to everyone for them. But i am curious what parents of girls use in this situation. I dont believe that every baby girl out there has short hair or a fringe.

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SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:58

Why don't you have it cut and when he is a bit older start growing it then when its thicker.

My friends dd had her hair cut, with a fringe and she is growing it out very nicely now. She is 2.4.

toddlerama · 03/04/2012 17:59

DD2 has 'forward growing' hair too. I've dealt with it with french plaits around her hairline, hair bands, clips, and as it got longer 2 full french plaits. But I think you should cut it. Because french braiding the hairline of a boy is odd.

ObiWan · 03/04/2012 18:00

Ah, sorry, by alice band I meant this sort of thing

NarkedPuffin · 03/04/2012 18:13

i wouldn't put clips in the hair of a 16 month old.

Pandemoniaa · 03/04/2012 18:16

dgd has had her fringe cut precisely because of the danger of hair clips. When she's older ddil might well grow her fringe out but by then she's unlikely to swallow clips or simply take alice bands off.

With babies and toddlers it makes more sense to choose a hairstyle based on, er, commonsense tbh, rather than attempt an impractical style statement.

Sootie · 03/04/2012 18:25

Tbh, I have never seen a little girl that age with clips in her hair at DD's nursery or even within my family. Everyone grows their DD's hair out until it can be tied back with a ponytail or have it cut short with a fringe. My friend's son was the first time I'd ever seen baby with their tied up like that, but she only tied it up until it was long enough to cut a fringe with. DD still hates having things in her hair and she's 4. I don't think babies have a fashion sense!

crustyonion · 03/04/2012 18:37

My DD is 1.6 and her hair grows forward too. We have used bobbles (the ones with no metal bit) and she had a silly top knot for a bit, and bunches now. It's gradually getting to be long enough to tuck behind her ears, though it seems to resist a centre parting. Every morning, when she wakes, she looks like Cousin It.

CrunchyFrog · 03/04/2012 18:52

DS1's CM used to put flowery clips in his hair to try and shame me into cutting it. Didn't work.

I would worry about the choking thing, my friend's wee girl nearly choked on a bobble while in the car seat - she didn't notice straight away because it was silent choking.

But I wouldn't worry for a second about the gender thing.

MrsTerryPratchett · 03/04/2012 18:55

When people are tying them back, are you using normal hair ties (like elastics) and are they a choking risk?

FirstLastEverything · 03/04/2012 18:56

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MrsTerryPratchett · 03/04/2012 18:59

But if I cut it I have to carry on cutting it and it was like UFC the one time I tried.

Facebookhurtsmybrain · 03/04/2012 19:17

op I'm coming into this a bit late and read all your post. Why is it so important that he has long hair when clearly it's not working for him or you.

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