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To be furious about dd's hair cut?

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Hockacholic · 08/05/2012 10:22

7 year old dd went to play at a friends house yesterday. Dd had long bum length hair but when she got dropped home friends mum (a hairdresser) had cut dd's hair into a shoulder length bob! I didn't see the mum as she just dropped dd at the door and she came in on her own. I am so upset dd had never had her hair cut it was lovely, I know I can't do any thing about it now and dd is happy with her new hair style. AIBU to think friends mum should have spoken to me about this first?

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Salmotrutta · 08/05/2012 16:27

I don't care if it's real or not - I love a good controversy! Wink

And I will lurk for an update too ...

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 08/05/2012 16:27

I certainly have my reservations, bibbity Grin

Bloody hell though, do people really think I was serious when I suggested going to the paper?

everlong · 08/05/2012 16:28

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usualsuspect · 08/05/2012 16:30

I'm looking forward to the next installment Grin

D0oinMeCleanin · 08/05/2012 16:30

My friend did this once with dd2. I was a bit peeved because dd2 has curly hair and she cut a fringe in, which I thought looked a bit silly. I am irrationally irritated by curly fringes. I don't know why.

I can't say I felt furious or considered going to the local paper or solicitor Hmm. Just slightly peeved because of the fringe issue. She wore clips for a while. The fringe grew out. The world did not end Shock

When my mum, who is not a hairdresser badly hacked off dd1's hair leaving about half a stubby inch of wonky fringe at the front, then I was pissed off. Not pissed off enough to go a solicitor, though. Dd1 now has a lovely fringe. Hairbands were her friend for a month or two. I got over it. And again the world did not end.

Coconutty · 08/05/2012 16:30

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ToryLovell · 08/05/2012 16:33

Shock Surely this has got to be a wind up.

Either that or she has flogged your daughter's hair to make extensions

everlong · 08/05/2012 16:40

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StateofConfusion · 08/05/2012 16:43

If anyone cut dds hair, or ds for that matter without permision, I would go batshit crazy.

Invite her dd round and do ear piercing, I dare you.

salemsparklys · 08/05/2012 16:50

Ring her!!! I would have been off after her the second my daughter walked through the door and i saw her hair!

NagooIsBuildingAnArk · 08/05/2012 16:53

Jenai come on, it would be brilliant to have the sad face mum pinching the daughter to make her look sad too outside the hairdressers...

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 08/05/2012 16:56

I've actually spent a long time today trying to fund such a photograph Blush

There wasn't even anything on apiln :(

mumofjust1 · 08/05/2012 16:56

I'd go absolutely bezerk! How dare anyone lop off someone elses childs hair without their permission?

What on earth was she thinking - she must be completely mad! It doesn't matter if your dd asked, or begged and pleaded, she's only 7!

McPhuck · 08/05/2012 16:57

Wind up or not, I would go nucking futs!!!

DPrince · 08/05/2012 16:59

I think she should have asked. But at 7 its completely up to the child imo. Dd,also 7, decided she wanted her waist length hair cutting so that was it. It got cut. Its her hair.

DPrince · 08/05/2012 17:00

Although I do think the thread is pure crap.

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 08/05/2012 17:00

If she had never had her hair cut, chances are that a good cut will have improved the quality of the hair no end and it will grow back.

WorraLiberty · 08/05/2012 17:01

Oh and if it is a good cut, say so to the mum and thank her for doing a good job to lessen the dig about permission

See if that was me, I'd be too busy trying to keep my fist out of her face....

OrmIrian · 08/05/2012 17:04

Day before DS1 started seconday school I told him I'd trim his fringe. He had long blond surfer dude hair at the time. I cut it so short it stuck up at the front. I was so upset that he didn't even get cross with me though he was devestated - DH was out and I called him sobbing hysterically to come home. Poor kid had to start at secondary with a comedy hair cut. I felt so guilty - but he got over it. Now that was a hanging offence, what the other mother did wasn't IMO.

gafhyb · 08/05/2012 17:05

I don't see the appeal of uncut, scraggy waist length long hair. Not practical at all

akaemmafrost · 08/05/2012 17:06

See I rather think I too could be incited to violence by someone cutting my child's hair worra. I can't believe some people on here would actually find it acceptable.

WorraLiberty · 08/05/2012 17:06

I don't see the appeal of scraggy down to the bum hair either

But the decision to cut it still doesn't lie with some random woman who invited the child to her house.

WorraLiberty · 08/05/2012 17:08

aka I have a feeling it boils down to being easier to type the words 'it wouldn't bother me'....I'm quite sure if it happened to some of the people on this thread they'd be furious.

akaemmafrost · 08/05/2012 17:08

I called bullshit on this thread about 100 posts ago because it is.

gafhyb · 08/05/2012 17:10

Yes Worra, agree with that