To shave my toddlers unibrow...?

[cactusdog]

I feel truly awful asking and I hate that it's even in my mind but the truth it he has one. DS 2.5, has a unibrow. It's not massive and bushy but you can see it.
Someone once made a comment about it when he was 8 months and I have irrationally hated that person since. However it did make me realise that it is noticeable.

So my question is, would you do anything about it? And if so, when?
Surely if I start now and it is just part of his routine then it won't raise any questions, but if I wait until kids start to make fun of him, then he asks, will that impact his self confidence more?

I wish it wasn't an issue and I know it's not a big deal in some ways, but also kids are mean and we've got to live in the real world.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Do not do this.

The kid will have more issues thinking that mum hates his face than the odd comment from people, hopefully with mum making him feel m

Oh this has not helped me decide. Feel even more conflicted.
Definitely notice most people who are very against don't have a child with a unibrow.

I would use a safety razor and take a tiny bit off if I did.

Leaning towards just leaving it I think. I will try and get a photo but don't want to show his face obviously.

Actually I feel bad thinking about taking a photo of him for this reason. He is absolutely perfect, a gorgeous child inside and out. I only thought about it because of that comment and my own experience.

The person who said they would be informing social services; single most ridiculous comment I've read. I work in the field and find that hilarious.

Posted too soon as one of my own LOs came running in.

Parents should be trying to make kids feel happy in their own bodies, NOT reinforcing that there's something wrong with them for being anything other than completely ordinary.

Shaving, plucking, waxing toddlers? I always think I've read everything on here, but Jeez. That - is - baaaad.

Do not remove hairs from your child's face. How will that make a child feel? Even if it's done for some sort of misplaced good intentions, that child may very well get the message that even their own parent, a parent who claims to love them, doesn't think they are presentable enough to be seen in public.

Like I said, I had a unibrow as a kid and it was mentioned by another child, a mean girl.
I was embarrassed and upset and shaved it. I didn't feel that there was something wrong with me. I felt a bit angry with my mum for not helping me or telling me about it.

My mum, who is a wonderful mother in all other ways, was a bit hippy when we were growing up and she never taught me or my sisters about looking after yourself as you grew up, other than basic washing, teeth brushing etc. She never showed us how to shave our legs or under arms, or told us about showering every day, bought us deodorant or make up or beauty products. All because she didn't like the pressures put on young women and girls and the idea that we weren't ok exactly as we were.
I understand where she was coming from but honestly resent her a bit for never helping us with those important things that help you fit in and feel good about yourself.

Might be in the minority but I would and would have been grateful if my mother had done it to me.

Oh this has not helped me decide eh? Are you reading the replies?
Don't transfer your own hang ups onto your child for goodness sake. You're talking about a "tiny bit" so a few hairs (your words) It's nothing in other words and you're being ridiculous sorry.

Might be in the minority but I would and would have been grateful if my mother had done it to me.

Right, but at 2 years old?

He's a baby.

I would too. My dd was born with lots of very dark hair and quite a lot of body hair! I thought to myself then if she ever developed a unibrow I would remove it in a painless way like shaving/hair removal cream. Luckily she didn’t but I absolutely would have done if she had! Not because I’d consider her any less beautiful but because I think you do anything to stop your kids being teased.

If you're gonna wax his monobrow, will it interfere with his spray tan?

Just something to consider.

@SmileyClare - your last comment actually makes so much sense. It is just a few hairs, I'm being ridiculous. Thank you, whatever it is about reading that has given me the slap I needed x

You can't make this into an issue of helping with those important issues that make us fit in and feel good about ourselves

What? He's 2. You're transferring your issues from adolescence big time here.

I certainly wouldn't shave it. Is laser not a possibility if it is really noticeable. Maybe in a few years.

Sure, seems safe.

I live by the rule that I don't parent my children as a result of someone else's choices. When my child wanted a lunch box for a slightly younger child I let him. I taught him how to stand up for himself and what to say if he was teased. I didn't upset him and say no you can't have that plastic box because someone else has a differing opinion and is choosing to be mean.

You want to remove it because some kids are cruel? Then teach him how to be him. Even at a young age children can learn self confidence and be filled with the idea that they are lovely as they are. Unless they are being "mean" to a kid who is different to them.

Ffs no! He's a child

Don't we all make needless aesthetic choices for our young children every day?

I have a unibrow and tache left unplucked, and it looks like my son will too. I was mercilessly teased for them at school. I still won't do anything about it until he wants me to - and at 2 your son can't possibly be bothered.

Anyway, just the thought of getting near my 18 month old with a razor... how do you keep him still?!

Immac or Veet as it's now called ?

Phew glad you're seeing sense Op. I was starting to think you'd gone mad.

Will it interfere with his fake tan? haha start early if you want a chance of getting on Love Island. Sorry Op you'll probably look back on this and laugh.

It's times like this that I am so glad that my DS 15 goes to a fantastic special school. He has SLD and doesn't give a toss what he looks like, many of his class mates also have a monobrow, as does he and none of them could care less.

How lovely to be like that and yet so called "normal" kids can be so bloody nasty.

IF you were going to do it, then I would use a Tinkle eyebrow Razor or something, however, if it's really not that bad and only one person (idiot) said something I would leave it. You're probably looking at it more because of what they said and it's made you insecure that others are thinking it, if that makes sense rather than actually being bothered yourself.

Actually I feel bad thinking about taking a photo of him for this reason what does this mean though? You don't like taking his photo?

OP, I think your mum sounds great in how she handled stuff.
My mum was a model, obsessed with looks. I can't begin to tell you the scars that left me and my sister with.
Sorry that you had a hard time though.

This is crazy and sad. He’s a perfect little baby.