Really upset sons haircut too short!

[Onlymeyousee]

I am seriously mourning my sons haircut.

I asked for a few weeks off the length and they’ve cut off about 3 months worth. It’s so much shorter and I’ve been crying my eyes out.

I know that may not sound like a lot but it is. He looks like a different boy.

I’ve been awake all night and feel sick about it.

What’s a ‘couple of weeks worth?’ Mine grows super fast so that would be over an inch, maybe a little more, my mums what would mean 1/4cm. Next time ask for length- 1 cm etc, that will tell the hairdresser how much exactly you want!

For what it’s worth my cousin’s son had longish hair and he was so cute, he had it cut to a short still, and now he still looks cute but with a ‘proper’ little boy style. He no longer looks like a baby he looks older and it so suits him!

Over reaction. It will grow back!

Op, are you ok? Ignore people being vile on here. If you’re getting upset over this, is there more going on in your life that you need help with?

Next time you take him tell them how much you want off in cm/inches, hair doesn't tend to be measured in time.

sweeneytodd Yes, my mistake but good job you are not a hairdresser/barber as it could be much worse!

It will grow back!!

Ignore people being vile on here

I don't think they're being vile.

I'd imagine there thinking of all the seriously sick and dying children that exist, and wondering how a nother could feel sick and stay awake all night crying over a short haircut.

One of my DD’s with long hair gave herself a hair cut at that age. It was long but she hacked it off super short on one side, but in sort of choppy weird layers. It was annoying because it was near the end of the school hols and in between a million things to do we had to make an emergency hair appt to get it fixed. Even though the repair cut was heaps better it stayed uneven looking for months and months and it looked like I’d given her a horrible home cut.

Bad hair in a young child doesn’t matter though - they don’t care. And in our family girls cutting their own hair themselves is a rite of passage

Deary me what a ridiculous carry on.
I've never asked for a cut in 'weeks' you say a length or with boys a number, my son always had 2 on the sides, 4 on top. Unless he's had a no1 all over it's hardly a catastrophe. Also pretty shallow if you have such an investment in appearance. Grow up.

I woke up this morning to my 6yo having cut a chunk out of the front of my daughter's hair. It's all uneven and too short to be styled into a fringe but as she said "it will grow back".

What is 3 weeks of length off? The hairdresser probably didn't have a clue what you were asking for?!

@DrinkSangria
People are telling her to get a life, to get over it etc
There’s no need to be spiteful, I’d that what people would say to their friends? It sounds like this is symptomatic of a bigger problem, and op maybe needs some sympathy, not to be told she’s being ridiculous.

Op, when going to the hairdresser or barber you don't ask for weeks or months growth off, you either ask for a specific length measurement off or something like a number two all over, or show a picture.

Do you not go to thr hairdressers yourself ever to enable you to know this?

Word of advice OP. stay away from the Sistine Chapel.

It's OK to be upset about things, we all are for various things. What is important though is not to let it affect you or worse your child.

Accept you are upset, then distract yourself with other matters. Try to see the funny side of it and remind yourself that you are fortunate to have an amazing healthy boy and the chance to be upset about haircut.

Hahaha, oh dear, OP! I sympathise - I cut my little boy's hair this week myself for the first time (he's 16mo) and whilst I got it very even with the clippers, it's VERY short all over. I could have cried! And I can't even blame a barber! He now looks like A Big Boy, but- as others have said- it's just hair, it will grow back, and my DS's already looks better after 3 days of regrowth. Less spiky and skinhead-y. Don't panic, things could be a lot worse, as pp have mentioned...

For my son, 1 month grow would be a bit over 1 inch. How much did they cut off?

Next time ask in inches or centimetres. What may be a month’s growth for one person will be two weeks worth for another, the hairdresser wouldn’t know how much to
cut off.

He's still the same little boy who loves you. Dont worry about it, wait till he's s teenager and starts experimenting with his hair. I'm sure he still looks lovely.

I was a bit upset when all my son’s hair fell out after chemotherapy for cancer.
It grew back.

This thread made Twitter, MumsnetMadness!

is this like one of those middle class problems? 🤔

If you’re sensitive about this next time Don’t ask for haircuts in weeks - ask for a number 1,2 or 3 back & sides and scissors on top, or if you don’t want it shaving ask for a scissors cut.

See, I was disappointed when they hacked off DS's hair, but I made sure to tell him he looks great- I called it the '15th century monk look' in private. It was very much like Credence's in Fantastic Beasts .

It's obviously grown now (and I have to explain to this dad that hair does look a bit shaggy whilst growing it out every sodding week)

Wasn't there a thread on here once where someone's DS (or DH?) had a haircut which made him resemble Richard III?

I don't think it's too abnormal to be disproportionately upset about something on occasion, as a parent. Particularly if you're overtired or stressed about something else. OP has already said it was the thought he was growing up that set this off. Some of the replies are a bit unkind.

OP you should have said your MIL did it without your permission, or you'd had a shit haircut yourself and you would have had sympathetic replies

(I also have alopecia and don't like using it as a "well think yourself lucky" thing. It's a bit like well children are starving now, eat your dinner" Someone else complaining about a bad haircut won't make mine grow back )