To not want to cut my boys hair?

[Manchestermummax3]

14 month old little boy - his hair is gorgeous! (I know I'm biased) it's a little wild yes, but that's kinda what I love. It doesn't bother him in anyway (not in his eyes etc)

But my god everyone won't stfu making comments that he should have it cut now because people might mistake him for a girl 😒

He still obviously has quite fine 'baby' hair & getting him to sit still long enough would be mission impossible anyway.
His dad wants it cut too & I just don't want to. Neither of us trumps the other in terms of reasons or rights of course.
He wants it cut because he does, I don't want it cut because I don't basically.

We both are basically unreasonable aren't we? 🤣

Also, if any of you lovely lot have some great comebacks when others bring it up please do share! I've seen some of the most brilliant witty responses on other threads!

My very-nearly-6 year old son has been growing his hair for 18 months and it's amazing. Blonde, down to his shoulders, gets mistaken for a girl now and again but he loves it. We take him for a trim now and again to keep it vaugely tidy. I see other kids - particularly at swimming, when he's in Darth Vader shorts and not a girls swimming costume - look at him funny as if they're trying to work him out. He loves his hair and it's a big part of his personality. He's also getting a skateboard and drum kit for his birthday so it's a whole look! I bought some really nice headbands from Etsy when he was at the annoying in your eyes stage but it's so long now it goes behind his ears.

My son who is now 4 1/2 has got beautiful curly hair. I will take no notice of anyone who says to cut it because simply it's his identity. He would look weird without it. There has been many an occasion where he has been jostling on a park slide and a mum has gone "let the little girl go first" and I just smile to myself. Take no notice and just remember curly hair is unusual ans special. My boy is gorgeous with his mop. Plus it's cheap and you don't have to keep getting it trimmed like a short style.

I am a little bit sad though now as at his last hair appointment she said it's growing straight on the top and not curly anymore, so that takes the choice away from me. I am utterly dreading cutting it into a proper boys cut !

This is him when much younger....I am biased but curls are simply gorgeous!

DS was born with that much hair! Ignore them, DS is nearly 4 has lovely thick hair that dry sits just on his shoulders, he doesn't want it all shaved off and neither do I. I take him to a hairdresser not a barber for his cuts, but would've have bothered at that length. It did get a bit wild over the summer and wet was halfway down his back. When it starts to get tangly or fall in his face I take him for a trim.

Yeah he needs that cut, it looks untidy and like it’s growing into his eyes. It doesn’t look curly just fine and straight - curly hair tends to grow more up/out and doesn’t flop into the eyes. Soz!

I was going to say exactly this! I rarely see a ‘mop of curls’ just regular fine lovely baby hair that needs a maintenance trim.

DD (3) has the most beautiful silky but very thick hair. Yes it was lovely for me to admire her but she hated having it brushed and basically couldn’t care less how she looks, so off we went to the hairdressers for a few inches off. It’ll grow back!

My youngest is 4 and he LOVES his hair long, he doesn't want it cut and we won't cut it until he does. He gets called a girl a lot but we just say he's a boy and he does too. It is near his waist when wet.

On his second birthday, I shaved the sides of his hair to a no2 and two years later this is how it looks haha.

OP - the hair doesn't look that long!

My son has hair just like this, it's gorgeous :) we get so many compliments on it. I don't care if people mistake him for a girl!

It is completely poker straight on top/sides... its the back which obvs you can't see that is starting to curl. No need to apologise :)

Thank you for so many responses! In the middle of bedtime routine but I am trying to respond when I can :)
I think I should probably conceded that he at least needs a fringe trim! 🙈
Thank you also for those that have shared pics of your gorgeous long haired boys. Love it 😀

My ds hated getting his hair cut ( asd and other things) he's now 17, 6 ft 4 and his thick brown straight hair is at knee length ( apparently he's going to grow his beard to match, that's a whole different thread) his uncle continues to go on and on about getting it cut, my ds just rolls his eyes at him.

It's not at all 😆 it's got a long way to go before I would even call it long... excuse the pun!

He sounds like a very cool kid! 😎🥁

Fab idea!

My ds had the loveliest curls when he was a baby. Bright blonde too.

Dh insisted he have his hair cut so off the went. I was a bit upset but dealt with it.

Then ds started saying what he wanted. He’s had it very short, he’s had a Mohawk with shaved sides.

He’s 7 now and he’s growing it again. It’s already gone back to the bright blonde curls from babyhood and are halfway down his neck.

He’s happy with it so I’ve left it. If and when he wants he cut, we will do it

My gosh of course yanbu.

My little boy had a beautiful messy long mop of hair until he was 3 or 4. It was just so gorgeous I couldn't bear to get it chopped off so just had it trimmed from his eyes.

Everyone mistook him for a girl despite his boyish dinosaur clothes but so what? He was really not a baby so who cares.

We had it cut before he started school and have kept it short since.

There a little boy on his football team with blonde hair down to his waist, he's very much a boy and if anyone gets mixed up he shouts "I'm a boy".

Missed the photo op, his hair is beautiful but it does look like he needs his fringe trimmed.

My son is 7 and hasn’t had a hair cut, he may never have it cut, he’ll have to see how he views his relationship with his hair when he is older. As a lot of people have said his hair isn’t long, but it is at an awkward length, so needs to be styled
properly.

Dh has spent most of his adult life with waist-length hair, it’s seen as perfectly normal for males in our house!

My son had lovely long blonde curls when he was a toddler. He did sometimes get mistaken for a girl but that's just others' ignorance. Don't cut it for them!

Mother of 4 (now adult).sons. my view is that little boys should look like little boys . Probably outdated views but my boys were dressed in boys clothing, they were interested in boy type stuff, cars, toy guns, action man, etc, so their hair length confirmed they were boys, without any confusion
Hand me my arse please

@Georgeskitchen what exactly do you think is going to happen if a boy has long hair?

Plus historically and recently mens hair fashion has been all different lengths.

Plenty of footballers, singers, models wear their hair long.

I watched a local boy grow from a baby to school age. His hair was never cut, it was blonde and straight, his mother also dressed him like a well to do farmer, tweed jacket, waistcoat, flat cap/ trilby, riding boots and anything burberry (?).
When he started school his hair was still long, but within weeks it was short.
As long as his opinion is not ignored when he's older, who cares.

Don’t cut it, it will never be so baby soft ever again! I gave in when my DS was about 2.5 and looked like a cross between Paul Weller and Boris Johnson. He’s now 9 and still prefers long/shaggy hair to the super cropped styles that seem to be fashionable among his peers.

When you do eventually cut/have it cut remember to ask to keep a lock.

It didn’t/wouldn’t bother me if randoms thought my DS was a girl, those who matter clearly know his sex.