To prevent DS channeling Richard III?

[CecilyNeville]

DS is 7. DS likes having longish hair. I like DS having longish hair. However he consented to me cutting his fringe a bit the other day, and now he looks like Richard III as played by Laurence Olivier.

He says he likes the rest of his hair as it is, and doesn't want to cut the length further. Is there anything I can do to kindly, fairly resolve this!? I don't want him to feel coerced, but it really really isn't a good look. We are not Plantagenets.

Have you taken a photo of him to show him. My 7yo ds can tell when something doesn't suit him eve if he liked the idea . Photos are more difficult to ignore than the mirror

Maybe you need something to break up the fringe a bit? Like a ...crown?

Hair band? Like wot the footballers do? I'd encourage to grow his fringe out if he likes the rest of his hair long..

Cut it in his sleep then blame his sleepwalking habits?

Def hide all the cushions before he stuffs one up his t shirt for a hunch!

Take him to the hairdressers and see what they suggest, sometimes shaping or lightening the fringe or layering it can break it up?

Perhaps I should encourage an interest in historical re-enactments.

He knows long hair means additional previously-hated combing, but it's not phasing him. Bah.

Ask him his preference for PE? Bunches or ponytail? My ds was told if his got any longer he would have to tie it up for games at school! Now a bit shorter but still shaggy!

Loved the title of your thread!

Bless him! I'm pretty sure he'll grow out of it soon. Not much you can do otherwise. Have any comments been made to him about it from other members of the family or, probably more importantly, his friends?

My mum still calls one of my first boyfriends Richard III. Because he was very tall and very shy and used to sort of try to hide behind his own shoulder, giving him a 'hump'. Happy days. He would have rocked a Plantagenet fringe too.

We'll need to see photographic evidence.

Do dogs bark at him as he passes? Is he really cheated of feature, deformed, unfinished, sent before his time?

I don't see the problem, I bet he looks like a right bobby dazzler!

Only get worried if he starts soliliquising about winters of discontent in the bathroom and wooing young widows whose husband and father he's killed, while they're actually following the coffin. Or if Philippa Stanley keeps showing up at the front door.

'We are not Plantagenets'.

Well, see, maybe you are? Even old Richard himself turned up from under a Sainbo's car park and they identified him from some plebby descendant DNA so you MIGHT be a Plantagenet and your ds is fulfilling his destiny. So leave his barnet alone. (If i was you I would just bribe him to get it cut properly).

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Maybe you need something to break up the fringe a bit? Like a ...crown?

brilliant ruddy brilliant

Cecily I need to know if your username is especially for this thread - if so, respect for your dedication to the Plantagenet cause

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I haven't even got any hair advice to post, I just love this thread if it all gets too much, perhaps you could just retire to a nunnery or something.

Actually I don't think they knuckle bumped in Plantagenet times, really. Perhaps they just smiled faintly and resolved not to kill each other and steal their throne just yet.

Even old Richard himself turned up from under a Sainbo's car park

How very dare you! It was Leicester City Council's car park!

Philippa 'Richard III is my boyfriend' Langley would have been a lot weepier if Richard's bones had shown up in the vicinity of the Sainsbury's frozen food aisle.

Ahh memories of DM calling my ex "Richard III" because he used to slouch and look hunched!

I'd show him photos and be tactful, as previously suggested. Unless you live within Lancastrian bounds. If so, tell him he can't go out like that or he might restart the wars of the roses

We are not Plantagenets.
At least he doesn't cut his own hair. My DS (27) refuses to go to a barber and cuts his own hair. The result usually looks as if Edward Scissorhands has attacked him.

Best OP I've read in a long while; best description of terrible boys hair I've read in a long time too.

Xx

Ooh yes apols it was a council car park no less!
OP come back and update us on how you resolve your ds's royal hair situation!!

Laurence Oliver was a truly awful Richard III. Show DS the movie, he'll get the message. "Look, have a hair-cut or you too will chew the scenery and over-act and be generally as camp as Christmas."

Maybe trim the back when he's sleeping to even it up a bit?

Here's some style inspo for your next move

If he's got any younger nephews I'd start giving him side-eye and hiding all the knives...