a child cut daughters hair help

[janett]

my friends daughter attends a pre school. She has had her hair chopped really badly by another child. staff have apologised . Is it possible to sue or is it just one of the things that happen? thanks

Oh I will sympathise a bit, it can be traumatic when they do this.
DD did it (to herself) when she was about 2 and a half. I phoned my best friend, barely able to speak as I was so upset. Her kids by then were 8, 6 and 4 so she'd been through it.
When I finally got out that DD had cut her hair, was no longer pretty and I now had an ugly child (yes I said that, and yes I know, it was awful) she hooted with laughter, told me not to be so silly and rushed over with hugs, chocolate and wine, which were needed.

DD has done it again since, and the second time I just told her if she wanted to look stupid it was up to her (I did then hide the scissors better though!)

Really, you will get over this, but I over reacted too.
DD looked like a monk for months, I made her wear a hat to hide it!

Try these people. I reckon you'll get thousands.

Cos Bill Murray says so.

Maybe if you sue then the pre-school will have to close down, and no other child will ever be in danger of having their hair cut again. Everyone's a winner.

yes, quite, missus

OP, that what you MUST do, right away

not

ThreadKillerQueen that's DS Beech to you.

my mum once paid her brother to cut one of her pigtails off because her mum wouldn't let her cut her hair so I'd check if any money changed hands before engaging the lawyers!

Oh, dear. I'd be very upset if that happened to my child, and I'd think of a summer's worth of photos etc - but in the end you have to get these things in perspective - this is SO common, and quite funny once you have stepped back a bit. 3 years on, perhaps

I would be telling off a child of mine who did any such cutting, though. I was always very very explicit that we only cut paper.

Me and the boy next door cut each others hair, using a seaside bucket as a guide. I had waist length blonde hair before he started, but his was even worse. Our parents were initially horrified, but then they thought it was hilarious. I can't believe you'd think of sueing, it'll grow back FFS!

Why would you want to sue?

FFS.

Fab - it's a sign of the times.

I think OP has got the idea now about the original idea to sue. Be nice..!

My baby sister did this when she was about 3years old, to 'make herself look beautiful'... look beautiful with a 3 tiered level bob with the first layer shorter than a normal fringe, she did not!

????

Sue? What for?

If the same scissor brandishing child had taken out an eye as they were unsupervised by the childcare setting would people still be so flippant ?
That's what I imagine the OP is cross about not the actual haircut.

A child could take an eye out brandishing a pencil or a twig too though.

In a preschool or nursery there are going to be about 8 three and four year olds per adult - impossible to watch everyone all the time.

Mamatomany - Yes but a child could fall on a toy, against a door handle, off garden equipment etc and take an eye out.

I know lets put our children in their own individual rubber rooms and have childcare staff watch them through built in cameras in another room. Then we wouldn't have to worry about them getting injured by anyone or anything or worrying about other children or childcare staff touching them.

They could keep the children in padded cells and then they'd be quite safe. Hurrah!

In a preschool or nursery there are going to be about 8 three and four year olds per adult - impossible to watch everyone all the time.

Perhaps that simply isn't enough supervision then, I couldn't watch 8 three year olds adequately, as for rubber padded cells I've met some children who probably ought to be in them !

i often think its the parents whop should be in the padded rubber cells, not the kids.

This has got to be a wind up!!

I think the sun has got to the OP - nice to see they haven't come back,.

mamatomany - smaller adult:child ratios would mean higher nursery fees, and I can't see many people going for that. If you want 1:1 or 1:2 care then you have to employ a nanny.

8 little ones though, that does seem a lot, I've never used a preschool and so no experience of them but the nurseries we used had 1 to 4 and didn't seem any more expensive.
Bit of an eye opener I guess.

1:4 is the ratio for 2 year olds - 1:8 is 3-5 year olds (under 2s is 1:3).