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daughter has cut all her hair off any advice from mums?

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WallisLady1 · 15/07/2016 23:10

hi I don't really understand the topics, or where this would go. However, could someone please give me any advice? Her hair has been destroyed. I promise, I do not just leave scissors laying around, but she managed to find a pair and just let herself go.

Not sure what to do? :(

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Kallyno · 16/07/2016 03:12

My dd did this to herself aged 2.5. I used my husband's clippers and gave her a proper short cut, which was actually quite convenient as she had thick ringlets and we were just about to leave for 6 months in hot climate! Then she did it to a friend's son when they were nearly five. Friend was very unamused by the monk-like cut she managed to give him!

Hairdresser will fix it up, no worries :) Take some pics though!

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 16/07/2016 03:28

It just looks like the sort of messy non hair style hair lots of children her age have. I don't think I would even notice if I met her.

GreatFuckability · 16/07/2016 03:30

Doin he looked weird for days before I could work out why .

allnewredfairy · 16/07/2016 03:45

Brilliant! Definitely keep some photos and perhaps a little video. Whenever I come across DD's video after she took the scissors to her long red hair age 3; it makes me laugh.
Kids do this, right?
Hairdressers are well used to tidying up after kids have been...creative

MotherKat · 16/07/2016 05:59

My eldest daughter cut her own hair twice, once when she was 5 (short pixie cut that summer, I loved it) and once when she was 13 (Frankenstein's monster fringe, grew out enough to look nice in a week) oldest nephew did it at 4 and his mum shaves his head, he looked like a peanut for a while, youngest nephew never did, but he hated haircuts and keeps trying to grow it out (until he gets irritated and begs to go to the barber and random times of night), he looks like a beatle at the minute, I did it, my brothers all did it.
Currently my eldest now 16 just paid someone a lot of money to cut her a green mullet, I'm hanging on to ~it'll grow back~ too.
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NotYoda · 16/07/2016 06:13

Oh what a shock when she had such long hair! I might have cried (not that I'm overly attached to the idea of long hair, but I also cried when DS1 and his mate crayoned all over my newly-painted hall at this age)

It'll be cute soon enough after a trip to the hairdressers and a bit of growing

KERALA1 · 16/07/2016 06:13

What would I do? Laugh? Take pictures?

It's cute. Dd2 hacked a fringe about this age. Kids are curios hair grows back. With all the awful things going on in the world atm I absolutely wouldn't be cross.

But know some mothers can get quite precious about girls hair. In dds class many girls have ridiculously long hair. I would love to chop some of it off. Hair can be too long.

KERALA1 · 16/07/2016 06:16

I cannot in any universe imagine crying over a pre schoolers hair. Wow.

NotYoda · 16/07/2016 06:18

Kerala

was that to me?

I was being a leetle but tongue in cheek

Guess it's hard to judge tone

"Wow" sounds a bit bitchy. But it is hard to judge tone. So.

KERALA1 · 16/07/2016 06:31

I have heard and seen women (always women) getting properly upset about things like this. I just don't get it and yes find it very weird how vested they are in such a young girls appearance. Thought you were one of those apologies if not but there are a few about.

NotYoda · 16/07/2016 06:33

That's OK KERALA

It must have been a shock though

I work in a school and a year 3 once turned up with a wonky fringe that was 1 inch on one side and two inches on the other. Undeniably funny-looking but poor kid

Scrowy · 16/07/2016 06:51

I did this when I was 29 and drunk. Posted about it here at the time. Tried to neaten my fringe up and took a huge chunk out of it. Had to get the hairdressers to even it up and even then had to wear it in clips for about six weeks until it was long enough to cut back into shape

woodwaj · 16/07/2016 06:56

I did this when I was little. I hid the hair down the sofa so my mum wouldn't find it. Turns out she actually cleaned the sofa regularly oh and she noticed the massive strip of missing hair!! I am lucky there are no pics!!

Spandexpanties · 16/07/2016 07:01

Very short earlegnth Bob with a fringe and let it all catch up

bringonyourwreckingball · 16/07/2016 07:04

My dd did this when she was 3. I cried a bit then took her to the hairdressers and they tidied it up into a pixie crop which actually looked gorgeous. She never did it again. I still don't know where she found the scissors

CuppaTeaAndAJammieDodger · 16/07/2016 07:09

DD did this when she was 3. She found a pair of baby nail scissors still in their pack (I'd totally forgotten about them). Walked into her bedroom and wondered "what' that piece of hair doing in the floor?" followed by "and that one ... and that one" (you get the idea).

Hairdresser fixed it up as best she could, she had a few bits sticking out at funny angles for a while - no biggie.

maxeffort0satisfaction · 16/07/2016 07:15

so cute.just go to hair dressers and get cute hair clips/sun hats/etc from claire's accessories.

she looks like yolandi visser lol

SoupDragon · 16/07/2016 07:16

I agree with others. She'll end up with a pixie cut and you'll laugh at it all later :)

DD ended up with a fabulous graduated bob once under similar circumstances.

DS1 ended up with a very short buzz cut after slathering in loads of Vaseline which would not come out!

megletthesecond · 16/07/2016 07:22

My 7yr old DD has just lopped her shoulder length hair off into a bob. She had taken a chunk out of the back a couple of weeks ago, I think she got a pony tail tangled. It looked like a bodged reverse mullet for a few days. Then last weekend she finished the job and straightened it up into a nice little bob. I even interrogated her brother because I was convinced she'd had help to get it so straight.

NoahVale · 16/07/2016 07:24

my dd was mad for scissors at same age, ruined a lovely dress now dresses dont grow back.

NoahVale · 16/07/2016 07:27

i cut my own hair as an older child, pre teen perhaps, hairdresser sorted it, after a fashion, my friend was daughter of said hairdresser was really miffed when I blamed hairdresser for my odd style

SoupDragon · 16/07/2016 07:30

dresses dont grow back

justilou · 16/07/2016 07:48

She's only little... A hairdresser will probably take one look and know exactly what happened. Perhaps they can tidy it up a bit so it will look a little more stylish as it grows.

Mistigri · 16/07/2016 07:56

Book an appointment with a hairdresser used to dealing with toddlers.

It doesn't look too disastrous and you'll laugh about it in a few years.

My now 15 year old did this regularly until she was 7 or 8 (not quite as drastic but she was easily old enough to know better). And at about the age of 4, she and her little brother had great fun cutting up DS's clothes :-/

It's easy to say "keep the scissors in a safe place" but not always as easy to do ...

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