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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to send my sons back to school without a haircut

60 replies

Frazzled2207 · 07/03/2021 10:55

Sons had proper haircuts days before the barbers closed as I suspected lockdown 3 was coming. Normally they would have had haircuts in February half term but.....yeah.

Anyway fast forward to now. Facebook/whatsapp is full of friends showing off their home haircut efforts with scissors and/or clippers. Apparently my two will be the only ones in school tomorrow sporting the slightly shaggy look. They are not a 'mess' at all just slightly outgrown. I might need to take some scissors to them in the next few weeks (fringes will be in eyes soon) but I'm not keen as at this point the result is likely to be worse than how they previously look. In last lockdown one of them consented to having a go with the clippers and it wasn't too bad but he now prefers a floppier look that I dare not try to do myself. For context, round here the vast majority of boys seem to have super short hair so I think mine will have the 'longest hair' when they go back tomorrow but is not 'long' or 'in their eyes' and is obviously perfectly clean. They are 5 and 7.

So YABU - get the clippers out today or
YANBU - it's the middle of a pandemic, the slightly shaggy look is fine.

OP posts:

EscapeTheCastle · 07/03/2021 11:08

My kid has got a great look going on, Colin Firths Mr Darcy. Obv missing the sideies though.

StillCoughingandLaughing · 07/03/2021 11:10

Hair a bit shaggier than normal? Just a common lockdown issue. Hair royally screwed up following a home job? Far more noticeable.

DogsAreShit · 07/03/2021 11:10

Yanbu mine are going in with trainers and messy hair. No one has good hair rn. It's fine.

2tired2bewitty · 07/03/2021 11:10

5 year old ds will be going in untrimmed because he isn’t keen on having it done and I’m not willing to risk making it look a whole lots worse if he won’t sit still.

N0tfinished · 07/03/2021 11:12

A tiny trim around the ears and fringe can be good if you're very careful... otherwise leave it alone I think. I tried my oldest on lockdown 1 after watching loads of YouTube videos... felt very confident going in but really started to panic half way through! And I had a trimmer & hairdressing scissors!!

ForeverBubblegum · 07/03/2021 11:12

Literally no one is sporting their best hairstyle, I sure they won't be judged. I have resorted to giving DS a home haircut, but he was already getting on to needling one at Christmas. If I'd have been organised enough to get one just before lockdown, I'd probably wait it out.

megletsecond · 07/03/2021 11:13

Yanbu.
Mine is going down the slightly shaggy Liam Gallagher route. I'll deal with a cut in a month or two.

BogRollBOGOF · 07/03/2021 11:13

DS1 is beyond shaggy. Beyond bob. He's been asked if he's having a hair cut or ponytail for PE. He chose ponytail.

He has ASD. He hates me playing at teachers (despite the PGCE) or hairdressers. I'm not that bad!

At least we can get a professional at it in a month.

Emmacb82 · 07/03/2021 11:14

Another vote for shaggy here! Apart from a trim at the fringe I’ve left it to grow wild. I’m not ready to clip it all off yet, he’s only 4. Will just have to wait until April 🤷🏼‍♀️

Gindrinker43 · 07/03/2021 11:15

Mine both look like scarecrows, and having seen the attempts I have made on their Fathers hair, they are quite rightly refusing to let me give them a trim.

MzHz · 07/03/2021 11:16

Ds has a fro. Not a chance in hell I’d be able to trim it

He’ll have to wait till the barber is open in April.

Yep, his hair is practically a landmark now, but it is what it is. School will be fine about it

My ds is 15 tho.

RosesAndHellebores · 07/03/2021 11:17

I do hope one of the changes arising from the pandemic will be that head teachers and school teachers have learnt that hair length/styles and regulation shoes have no impact on effort or brain power.

kowari · 07/03/2021 11:18

Don't see the problem with longer hair on children as long as it isn't bothering them. Don't understand the very frequent haircut trend here myself, before DS decided he wanted to grow his he never had it cut more often than every three or 4 months.

onemouseplace · 07/03/2021 11:19

@BrumBoo

I attempted my son's in last lockdown, and the results were absolutely awful. He has what I can only describe as 'Harry Potter hair' - it grows quickly, thickly and in every direction. I quite like the shaggy look on him though, at least he stands out from every other boy in his class who all have the same Grade 3 shave left slightly longer on top. Quite happy to wait for the barbers to open.

My younger one has my hair, it never grows and can go months without needing anything but a quick snip of the fringe.

This is a brilliant description - DS has Harry Potter hair as well.

We haven't attempted to cut his hair since the time DH tried when he was about 3, managed to cut a huge random chunk out of the back and then didn't know what to do next, and was sent out to find the nearest hairdresser to sort it out and not come back until he had.

We'll be waiting until the barbers opens.

DD is using the opportunity to grow out her fringe.

user1493413286 · 07/03/2021 11:19

Of the lockdown hair cuts by parents I’ve seen the majority are not great and would have looked better to have a slightly overgrown look plus if it goes wrong hairdressers can’t always sort it out (when they’re open) and it can take a long time to grow out

ChameleonClara · 07/03/2021 11:22

My children all have long hair now.

Whatwouldscullydo · 07/03/2021 11:22

I do hope one of the changes arising from the pandemic will be that head teachers and school teachers have learnt that hair length/styles and regulation shoes have no impact on effort or brain power

That would be brilliant wouldn't it. Dd1s school shirts are getting a bit small she will have to hope that they don't notice the top button.undone however given they change the shirts in September I'm.not buying any more when.she could be sent home at any moment.

Both mine will are/will be in trainers too. Can't afford to spend £££ on multiple pairs of shoes then send ones that don't fit back. Not when I can wait amd hit the shops in April and get them measured and fitted properly.

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 07/03/2021 11:27

@RosesAndHellebores

I do hope one of the changes arising from the pandemic will be that head teachers and school teachers have learnt that hair length/styles and regulation shoes have no impact on effort or brain power.

I know it's not the point of the thread but no one thinks hair length or uniforms have any effect on brain power.

I think you may be misunderstanding the reasons behind uniform and general appearance rules.

CannotOperateOnThisFailure · 07/03/2021 11:28

DS has refused my generous offer of a cut, and/or a lesson in man-bunning. So he'll have to take a hair band in and get someone else to do it for science and PE. He's spent weeks with it combed forward over his eyes, but recently it started to cover his mouth so he's given it a parting and got a lovely set of curtains

mumwon · 07/03/2021 11:30

I don't imagine the teachers will be any different - a class room of shaggy sheep with the odd shorn one lead by teachers with shaggy hair
(probably greying as well)

its a fashion statement

YesThisIsMe · 07/03/2021 11:32

DS hasn’t had a hair cut for a year. In February 2020 he looked like Jennings. He currently resembles Farrah Fawcett in her seventies prime. God help anyone who tries to get him to have it cut ever again.

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 07/03/2021 11:44

I tried to trim DS’ hair at the back, over his ears and the fringe. It wasn’t a success! Luckily he’s only 6 and doesn’t care. His hadn’t been done for a few months before lockdown, though, so he couldn’t see out.

kowari · 07/03/2021 11:44

DS (14) hasn't had his cut in over three years and refuses to even have the ends trimmed. He just tied it back once it was long enough, complete non issue.

sonnysunshine · 07/03/2021 11:46

YANBU at all. However I learnt how to cut their hair from YouTube and am really good at it now. It isn't hard and I am not very good at practical things. I now cut everyone's hair in our house. I've worked out I must have saved us over about £2800 over the years working on an average of 4 cuts a year!

B33Fr33 · 07/03/2021 11:49

My son is 5 and now wants to grow his hair so I am leaving it, I'll let someone more talented than me give it shape when he is ready and it's possible. To be honest he hates clippers and barely tolerates scissors and has always been tense but has asked for it short like mine until now. I was actually very shocked when I saw a friend posted about her boys not having a choice about it - she thought it was funny to ask them(!) Her boys are aged between 10 and 5, she has 4. I'm tempted to ask her if she lets her husband decide about her hair (I know she doesnt) but I've seen her in a new light in lockdown.

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