My son wont stop twisting my hair when he is tired....any ideas??

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My 3 year old son has this obsession with playing with my hair when he is tired. He twirls it round his fingers until it is in a tight knot and I have even had to cut the knots out before because they have been impossible to untangle.

He has always done it but since I have had Ds3 I have been too tired to wake up when he sneaks into my bed in the night and, if he dosent wake me up by pulling my hair out by the roots (V.painfull) I wake up in the morning looking like Freddy Bosswell!!

I have tried to get him to stop, Ive shouted, tried to get him to cuddle a teddy instead, I even contemplated getting a doll with hair for him to have at bedtime but every shop I have looked in has BALD dolls!!

Im sure it is like a security blanket thing and I am trying to tread carefully when trying to stop him because new babe is only 10 weeks old and dont want him to feel I am pushing him away because of baby.

Has anyone else had this problem?? If so what did you do?? Im pretty eager to get this sorted before I end up bald or demented!!

I'm another who can at least offer sympathy. Sometimes hair fiddling is the only thing that will calm ds. If I've had a bad day, I let him - anything's worth it for a bit of peace and quiet. I always regret it as then i get so wound up - it hurts.

ds1 used to twiddle my hair whilst sucking his thumb when tired. I remember the first time he twiddled my hair he was a tiny baby so sweet.

I did what other posters suggested and moved his hand to his own head and now he twiddles his. ONly does it when tired/bored etc. He is now 7 and tbh it doesnt really bother me.

If he is doing it when not really tired and more out of habit i do distract him from it, but still no big issue.

im really interested in this thread im demented with my little boy 14 months i can hear my hair snapping when he's feeding and pulling on my hair and it hurts like hell! thought abouit getting him a dol lmight try it x

Oh its nice to hear I am not the only one who is being driven insane by this.
Aprilgirl1 I know exactly how you feel, it makes my eyes water when my hair snaps off at the root and no matter how many times I stop him he just carries on minutes later. Hope you have more luck finding a doll with hair than I have, they are all bald or have short curly hair that wont work because he has to twist it right round his finger.
Maretta, I am guilty of letting him do it now and again, just to get some peace and let him fall asleep. Tbh he only ever does it when he is really tired and wants to go to sleep but it still drives me insane because you know its going to REALLY hurt.
Ill keep searching for a solution, gonna check out ebay for some hair (theres a sentence I never thought id use!!!

My little girl is 3 next month and her hair obsession has gotten worse, i think its since i started university and i am away from her more as I'm on placement full time. She twists my hair around and rolls it over her face, she also likes to twist my hair and put it between her toes! It is very irritating sometimes but part of me thinks its also cute. She just laughs when i tell her to stop i dont think a doll would ever work with her because she does it with her dad too when im not around but much prefers my long hair. I suggested to her that i might have it cut short and she wasn't impressed. I breast fed my daughter until she was two and think that perhaps she is more in need to be touching me all the time because of this but i could be wrong on this as she is my first child and i have no comparison she may just be a touchy feely girl, which on a whole i think is great and i will probably miss it when she is a moody teenager.

Hi just wondering if anyone had found the solution yet