Gutted

[maisieandvicks]

My 3 year old cut off her hair yesterday. I’m still sat here in the kitchen with my coffee thinking about it now.

She had lovely, curly hair down her back. Until she got hold of a pair of scissors she had been using to cut up paper and make shapes all day.

I was in the kitchen washing up and didn’t realise she had them, I thought I’d taken them off of her before I came into the kitchen.

Can’t have been any longer than 5 minutes later (because I always pop my head around the door to check she is okay) and she had cut off about 4 inches of her hair.

I didn’t shout at her, but I did literally break down in tears, I was so upset and still am.

She had the most beautiful hair 😢

AIBU to think that her hair won’t grow back the same? Or am I just being stupid and need to get a grip?

I need some sense talked into me, I don’t care how blunt, give it to me please because I feel like such a useless mother at this point.

Thanks.

I did this several times as a child, also cut the back of the sofa while I was at it!

My dd cut her hair when she was about 6. It wasn't too much and looked a bit like layers so I removed the scissors she'd snuck from my room and thought no more of it. Only I didn't realise she had a pair of mini scissors in a stationery set and she then cut a chunk out of one side!

I also tried cutting my hair once, ended up with tufty bits at the front. I was probably secondary school age at that point though!

No, please don’t take my previous comment the wrong way. It’s not that I didn’t ‘like’ it. It’s more that I felt that you were trying to make out like my DC cutting her hair wasn’t a big deal and was more associated to MY MH issues.

I appreciate your input, apologies if I offended you and thank you nevertheless.

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It will grow OP! My DD has curly hair and did something similar I was just fortunate I caught her doing it quickly so it was only one piece of hair but right at the front. She literally had this annoying little curl of hair that would stick out for a while but it's fine now

Two children in a teacher friend's reception class were spotted trying to trim each other's eyelashes with the paper scissors. She says she has never in her life moved so fast! Your daughter's hair will grow back, and she didn't damage herself :)

Oh OP I'd have cried too!

IME I cut my eldests hair for the first time around that age and the baby curls never did come back - she still has beautiful hair though

I got up one day to my daughter having given herself a haircut. She was three. I'm damned if I know how she got the scissors. That would have made me cross enough, but she'd also given the siamese cat a haircut. And a whisker cut. That sent me over the edge. Mainly I was yelling at the stupid bloody cat for having stood still and let her!

Then she and Baudene, her partner in crime, at daycare, gave each other haircuts. I knew the staff there, all of them, they knew me, they knew these kids, they watched them like hawks. They still managed to snaffle some safety snips, hide in a corner and give each other haircuts. I don't know who was more mortified, the staff, or Baudene's parents and me!

Kids do it. It's hair. It grows back.

Now mine are teens, I didn't recognise my eldest yesterday when she popped round, she'd dyed her hair and cut it! I never really know what style or colour is going to greet me. . .

Our grandson found my husbands beard trimmer a couple of years back, gave his sister a short back and sides......

If you want to be really horrified, not only did I cut my hair, but also my eyelashes and eyebrows, thank fuck I had good fine motor skills

I'm in my 50s now and still cut my own hair!

My mum was hairdresser so I guess I was just copying her.

I had just had some bad news, was rushing out the door to an appointment when my four year old son came into the room carrying a bucket...of his two year old sister's hair! She had lovely reddish curly hair, and the front bit was caught up in a top pony tail. This is what he cut off - so she had long hair sides and back and really short hair on top (like a really bad mullet). I too sat on the stairs and cried. She was too young to care and my son was chuffed with himself. My husband just said we had to go no time to be upset!
I took her to the hairdresser who just said I'd have to wait for it to grow out. We went on holiday a week later and all the pics are a reminder - and we joke about it now.
A couple months later it had grown long enough and it was all a fuss over nothing.

You've reminded me, when I was about 4 years old, I got a massive telling off from my mother after I had heard her talking about getting a hair-cut for my baby brother. I proceeded to climb up and get the nail-scissors from the bathroom cabinet and then lean into the cot where brother was sleeping and cut his fringe off, really jaggedly, in order to help (or so I told my mother). She was furious, obviously, as I might have poked him in the eyes with the scissors, but fortunately, I was discovered before I caused him actual bodily harm. It must be said I hated said baby brother for stealing all the attention which had once been mine when I was the only child, so my motives were probably not all that pure.
My hair-cutting ability didn't improve. As an adult, I tried to cut my own daughter's fringe using the famous pudding basin method and that landed up with a rapid emergency trip to the hairdresser for her.
It will grow, she'll be fine. If it's any consolation, I cursed my mother for insisting I have long hair until I was a teen, it was a nightmare tangled mess to deal with, particularly as I had to have pig-tails for school.

Hair always grows back - it's what it does (in healthy people obviously) Otherwise hairdressers and barbers would all be unemployed.
I'm actually wondering if you really don't know this and if so how?
As to the curl, sometimes it becomes less curly as they grow whatever you do (raises hand, and my hair was never cut by me or anyone else, it just grew out straight) sometimes not - largely genetic.

I cut my own hair at a similar age, and my baby brothers' too :) I can't remember the consequences, but both of our hair grew back okay.

I remember sitting on our purple hoover at the age of about 3 cutting my hair. I told my mum the fairies did it.

Be careful of taking her to the hairdressers. Mum did that to tidy up the mess I'd made and they made such a fuss of me I did it again a few months later so I could go back!

My son, when he was four, got hold of my cordless horse clippers and trimmed a haphazard path straight up the middle of his head, including radical fringe trim which left some of it about 5mm long. I laughed. It grew back, but contrary to his beliefs, watering it with a can didn’t have any positive effect!

Just wait til she hits the bleach your own hair stage and the fake tan stage and the bad fashion choices stage and the ridiculous shoes stage and and and.

This is only the beginning 😄😄😄

Lol! For real! I hear you!

This is NOTHING in comparison to what’s to come! 😄

Thank you for the friendly reminder! 😊