caught DD's cutting their hair

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This morning we've caught our dd's cutting their hair they are 4 and 2. the 2yr old doesn't have anything left to savage,it's going take time for it to grow back. the 4yr old does. I have to say that i hit the roof about this (it is so out of charater), i was really upset, probably over reacted and i wasn't very nice to my dh either. i know it's only hair, but they don't look like my children and i feel i've lost something. Has anyone been through the same. need some advice.

Yes, dd has done this twice! And she was 6! I was gutted too, so I really sympathise. I took her to the hairdressers and they did as good as a job as they could, but even now, more than 6 months later, it's still slightly shorter on one side than the other...

Go and make yourself a cup of tea and have a chocolate biscuit.

It will grow back.

DD has done this countless times. For a while they had to ban scissors in kindergarten.

She has also put nailpolish on her eyebrowns.

It is completely normal part of childhood, I think most children have a stab at hairdressing sometime.

Take the 4yo to the hairdresser to see what she can do. You will find that most people you meet will chuckle and say, "Oh, I remember when my DCs did that".

oh dear, but lol!

not funny I know, but mine have done this and altho it is bloody infuriating (and beleive me, I yelled that much I think I gave them a scissor phobia for a long time after), it is a right of passage for almost all children......

what is not funny is when the teacher catches your DS2 cutting a little girls hair on the corner of the classroom, while she is citting his hair, and the huge pile of his blonde and her dark hair they found that made everyone weep!!!!!(and he had lovely curls too).

at least with boys it isn;t so bad.....girls is more heartbreaking!!!

take photo's tho, and then you have things to show them when they too are mummies, and their kiddies do it, and they hit the roof too

thank you.
It's nice to know that it does happen and that i'm not over reacting with getting upset.

How was it your dh's fault?

2 of my girls did some mutual hair cutting last summer. i was beside myself. I had to cut one of their hair dead short and it had been so long and lovely

What was terrible though was that dd1's(then 5) best friends thought it was a cool thing to do and cut each other's hair off. They both had the most gorgeous curls

Oh my dd did this a few weeks ago, fortunately just one lock of hair before I saw her (she has GORGEOUS hair too). In a school I used to work in two boys in nursery cut each other's hair (massacred prob. more accurate). One of their mums went absolutely mad because her son was getting christened that weekend

I said things to my dh in the heat of the moment i know it wasn't his fault, we are both to blame with the situation, i was worried about what people would say about it

You will laugh bout this in years to come!They probably had a great time I think the feeling you have lost something is a bit odd though They are still your little girls Chill out!Have some chocolate

oh dear
my sis did this twice..lol

My dd cut her own and other's hair on several occasions. One friend has never quite forgiven her or me for cutting her dd's hair. I think she over-reeacted - and I suspect you are too. Hair grows - and maybe you should be more concerned that a 4 and a 2 year old were alone with scissors sharp enough for long enough?

MY DS2 cut another child's hair. We were at her house, in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting and the children were backwards and forwards from the playroom. I was mortified but my friend had left the scissors hanging about. We laught about it now!

It's only hair.

I hate to tell you this but the little girl next door cut my hair when I was three. My mother went absolutely ballistic and dragged me by my ear to the hairdressers to have it evened up. It is one of my first memories, crying and crying in the chair, trying to escape and being pinned down, and my mother going nuts. I then did not go to a hairdresser for 26 years!!!!- terrified of them. Would let relatives trim my hair at home but that was it. Went in a salon for the first time just before my wedding at age 29- they thought I was a bit odd.

I can laugh about it now, but as Swedes says- it's only hair. Don't go too mad!

Apparently we were planning to pierce our ears next lol