Right, am sick to death of this-no-one's else child does it-hair brushing

[Pawslikepaddington]

Dd is driving me stir crazy! Yes, we have fine hair in our family, and it is wavy and generally a PITA, but the minute I go near her with a hairbrush she is HYSTERICAL. I use tons of conditioner at night, and make sure it is tangle free and dry at bedtime (two hours of fuss but makes the mornings a little easier), and I have chased her out of the house in the morning wielding a hairbrush before now as she refused to have her hair brushed (it always gets done eventually-have pinned her in the school toilets before now!). Most girls I know will not only let their mums brush their hair, but will let them put bobbles in, and clips! Am sick of dd looking like an urchin-she looks beautiful at bedtime, but come the next morning all hell breaks loose. I want her to have it up all the time to make her life easier and mine, but how do I even broach getting any kind of "head time" with her?

Personally I find that washing it every day makes it much more tangly as it washes out the natural oils. I wash my own every other day and the DDs twice a week or so.

Sorry no advice but can confirm you are not alone . My DD 3yrs is a nightmare also - it can actually get me quite down sometimes !

I HATE doing the dd's hair in the morning! They moan a bit, but the real problem is that I am crap at it- their parting is always wonky, we are always running late, and I just can't DO hair!

When ds popped out, my first thought was "Halleluiah- a boy! I won't need to do any fancy hair stuff!"