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DD has cut off all her hair

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janpa · 02/09/2010 21:15

Don't need advice or anything, but just want to let you know how cross I am that DD has cut nearly all the hair off one side of her head. To make it worse she only had it cut at the weekend. I can't stop being cross. Even wine isn't helping! I know I'll see the funny side of it at some point, but that point isn't happening yet.

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Hulababy · 02/09/2010 21:17

Oh dear.

Hpw old is she? Is it rescue-able?

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janpa · 02/09/2010 21:31

Have gone back to the hairdresser who could only suggest a comb-over! She has 'softened' it out a bit but looks awful still. She's 3 & will make 4 in a few month, unless she does something like this again!

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Oartistic · 02/09/2010 21:33

Oh dear. DS cut off all DD's beautiful long hair when they were 5 and 3 respectively. She looked like a plucked chicken for at least a year. I still don't see the funny side, and it was three years ago.

YouMightKnowMe · 02/09/2010 21:42

It must be rescueable.

We had to make the decision to give DTD2 a number 2 all over at the age of 2-3 as a result of severe hair pulling (pasically she pulled out her own hair and was completely bald on one side - literally). Within a couple of weeks she was growing lovely curls and ended up with lovely natural layer switin a few weeks.

RonansMummy · 02/09/2010 21:43

I cut my fringe off the night before my uncle's wedding when I was 4, mum discovered it on the morning of the wedding, she still doesn't see the funny side!

domesticslattern · 02/09/2010 23:15

Please try to see the funny side.

My mother was soooo terrifyingly angry with me when I cut off my hair (similar age) that I can remember it very well now, and I am still frightened of hairdressers! I didn't go to a hairdresser for the whole of my twenties. I just associate them with the most horrific memories of my mother's anger and disappointment, and that there was nothing I could do to make her pleased again.

Don't make a fuss. She will have learned her lesson. It'll grow back.

Dinghy · 02/09/2010 23:18

You must take lots of pictures. you and dd will see the funny side once she's an adult. And you can use it for blackmail when she's a teenager.

ThatVikRinA22 · 02/09/2010 23:21

at least it grows back. please dont me mad for ever.

in 6 weeks it will have grown enough to style.

rebeccacad · 03/09/2010 08:39

I cut off my hair twice - once when I was two and once when about 6. My mum was so scarily angry the second time that it's one of the few things I can really remember from that age. I second trying not to be too cross about it.

I feel for you though!

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janpa · 03/09/2010 19:05

I'm beginning to see the funny side- only taken 24 hours. I knew it wasn't the worst thing that she could do, by a long shot, but really was cross! I've saved all the hair in a bag - have no idea why . Don't think she'll do it again in a hurry!

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moajab · 04/09/2010 13:37

My DS1 cut hacked off his fringe just after he started school. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! He was so proud of himself as I just stood there staring in shock! Unfortunatly it was a Sunday so he had to go to school like it the next day, which was mortifying. After school he went for a very drastic hair cut at the barbers! I do recommend taking a photo - you'll both laugh in the years to come!

muggglewump · 04/09/2010 13:45

DD did this to herself when she was about 3 and I cried. It's funny now though.
She looked like a monk for months and I made her wear a hat

nickschic · 04/09/2010 13:47

Ive said it many times.

Robert Whit cut off half my pig tails with the teachers pinking shears.

my mum was like this >>> .

kidsncatsnwine · 04/09/2010 17:32

I've never forgotten following the trail of golden curls from the living room to the the kitchen, where my enterprising 3 yr old was finishing her 18m old sister's 'haircut'. She had climbed the kitchen side to reach my scissors.....

I laughed about it.... eventually!

muggglewump · 04/09/2010 18:08

I phoned my best friend sobbing when DD did it. I could hardly get the words out so she rushed over, thinking something really awful had happened.
I actually said, "But she's not pretty any more".
BF has three kids who'd all done it, so brought wine and chocolate and placated me, until I could finally laugh.

Most kids do this at some point.

DD actually did it again a couple of years later, but that time I was cross as she knew better than to take scissors. I wasn't upset about the hair though.

InvaderZim · 04/09/2010 18:19

Even worse, I had a pair of children (age 3) hack each other's hair at the after school club I supervised.

Thankfully, the easygoing parents said "oh, she's done that before, won't be the last time" and the uptight parents didn't notice.

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janpa · 04/09/2010 21:15

Muggglewump - that really made me laugh cos that's exactly how I felt. My friend, who lives a few doors down, said she could hear me shouting DH's name repeatedly (cos I was so beside myself I didn't dare speak to DD because of what might have come out of my mouth) but she knew it was a 'someone's in trouble' voice, rather than 'I need to call an ambulance' voice! I kept thinking she looks like she's had brain surgery and then thinking 'get a grip, having to have brain surgery would be far worse than hacking off her own hair' but I was just so ridiculously upset. I've now decided to ask the hairdresser to give her a pixie / elfin cut. Have spent ages trawling the internet for such pictures but am failing. Does anyone know of any such sites?

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nicefleece · 04/09/2010 21:25

Well my hairdresser is on maternity, and last week the sodding stand in HACKED my hair so badly that my son asked if I was wearing his dressing up wig. Opinion was 2nded by my friend, and I ended up in emergency Toni & Guy appt (she sorted it and referred to the 'choppy wedges' as sick)

I am 39, not 3! And I have loads of 40ths coming up..

When my brother did the same to me when I was 4 everyone roared with laughter, and my Mum stuck a big flower clip on it, bless.

muggglewump · 05/09/2010 01:20

Janpa, there was no pixie cut for DD. She'd managed to get it do short in the middle of her head it looked like it had been shaved, hence the hat for months.
Really, I couldn't have made her look more like a small blond monk if I'd tried.

I still remember the sobbing, and laugh at myself now, but it was awful at the time, which is why I do have sympathy for parents when their DC has just done it.

Though saying "She's not pretty any more", was perhaps too far. I deserve a slap for that.

jabberwocky · 05/09/2010 01:49

Ds2 did this last year and ds1 decided the next day to join in and cut his as well The problem was, ds2's hair grows really fast but it took about 9 months for ds1;s hair to grow back AND he has a big cowlick in front so it stuck straight up for much of that time.

AddictedToRadley · 05/09/2010 02:59

This thread's reminded me of what joy I have to come!! My ds is 21 months so not too long! Lol

I remember when my niece did the home hair styling trick. My sister was mortified I walked in and laughed soooooo hard - she looked so ridiculous it was hilarious. She cut chunks out so her hair went waist length, shaved, waist length, shaved all the way round in 1 inch sections. My sister walked in just as my nephew had switched the clippers on and she was starting to shave it all off as she wanted to look like her brother!!!!! Oh the memory of it is making me giggle. Just picture a beautiful little girl who had gorgeous waist length hair and had turned it into a 'long, short, long, short' cut with a shaved section of about 2-3inches on the top!!!!

My sister was so angry she didn't tell her off for fear of what she might have done! Thankfully she suited hats and had a huge selection! I'll have to remind my sister and see if she thinks it's funny yet or if 8 years is still too soon.....

mathanxiety · 05/09/2010 05:05

When I was a girl, I had curly hair (still do) and I used to absolutely hate hearing people recite the rhyme "There was a little girl/ Who had a little curl/ Right in the middle of her forehead/ When she was good she was very, very good/ And when she was bad she..." took a nail scissors one night after being put to bed and cut off that curl, right in the middle of my forehead. Mum can laugh now, but it happened back in the late 60s.

DS (at age 4) lost a wad of gum in DD2's hair while giving her a kiss one day while we were at the library; the librarian nearly collapsed laughing when I asked her to borrow a scissors and explained we needed to cut a lock of the baby hair to keep the gum from spreading to even more of it. Later in his career, DS trimmed some of the same sister's hair very randomly one day after dinner when they both brought their plates to the kitchen. And the same DD tried to cut a fringe in her own hair at about age 8. We called it 'the tuft' as she cut it about 1 cm long initially.

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janpa · 05/09/2010 20:52

AddictedToRadley - that made me laugh so much! Sounds like castle battlements!!! Am seeing the funny side of it all now, although she does still like she's had a side lobotomy (if such a thing exists...)

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KristinaM · 05/09/2010 20:55

autumn is a great season for hats

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