How would you react to this?

[Welshmayhem]

Parents left watching your young dc and they do something that dramatically alters their appearance?

Being vague as it could identify me but if the front of the hair was cut to the bone basically after bring eyebrow length would you be ok with it as you had left them in charge or would you feel a line had been crossed?

Alters appearance of who? The dc? Yes that would cross a line.

bloody hell what you on about?? did someone cut your childs hair without your knowledge? thats not on.

Yes done to the dc by the gp's

Yes, I would be fuming.

I would be livid!

"left in charge" means to supervise and keep the child cared for and safe, not start on "improving" them as you see fit.

There have been numerous threads on here, usually about someone getting DCs ears pierced or cutting a little boys lovely cherubic locks to make him look like a "proper boy", its an absolute betrayal of trust

They wouldn't be trusted with my dc again. Line crossed? No, the line has been obliterated.

crossed the line then, defo.

what did you say to them op?

My gran always got my hair cut when she had me. My mum used to go mad! It was because my great gran had told my gran you would loose your intelligence if you grew your hair!!!

I would go mad if it was one of mine!

If its just a haircut I wouldn't be too upset but if the pierced their ears or gave them a tatoo...

If it went from eyebrow length to a mm shorter then I would be cross and tell them it was up to me to cut hair and not them. If it was, as you say, cut to the bone, I would go berserk!!

Ds1 I'd me miffed but ok as he has short hair any way.
Ds2 I would be beyond lived and would prob not speak to them for a good while. He has chin length hair,

It's probably. Wrong to feel like that and I can't explain. Why the.second would pass me off more but it would.

I have a friend who jokes he's going to cut his hair to make him less of a girl and he gets stern words, even though I know he's joking and would never do it it passes me off.

waily - I think you are assuming that a hair trim, when the child was due one anyway, is OK - and in fact doing the parent a favour.

Some MILs have done really drastic things like cut a boys hair that was all lovely curls round his ears , that he hand his parents were happy with, and MIL has given him a shaved head all over number 3, because she thinks it looks more like a boy. This is unforgivable!

Your right Phantom I guess I was thinking that GPs really couldn't do any worse to my DCs hair than I have already done myself but thinking back DS2 did have lovely bouncy blond curls and I loved them until they turned to dreadlocks and I would have been more than pissed off if the GPs had cut them off

They would never look afiter my child again.

My toxic mum used to take DD for 'haircuts' when she looked after her. She also used to go and get her shoes too, which used to piss me off as she was only little and I wanted to choose the shoes.

Thing is, why would an adult cut it that short? Did they cut it or your dd?

Dd2 cut her hair that short once. How she found a pair of scissors when I could never find a pair is beyond me!

If my mum had DCs hair trimmed, fine. Saves me doing it. If she had it shaved off, not so much. Unless it was child's first haircut, then I would be very upset.

Depends how old the child was........