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Rant Rant Rant Not important but Rant

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 18:47

My son has just been to my Mums, she rang and said oooo his hair is very long doesn't he need it cutting for school. I said no thankyou mum i am growing it, i want it long.
He has returned with his haircut.
Arrgghhhhhhh

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motherinferior · 18/04/2004 18:49

Bloody hell. Out of order if you ask me. V sorry. xxxxxxxxx

marthamoo · 18/04/2004 18:50

Oh I would be furious. Grrrrrrr on your behalf, ff.

marthamoo · 18/04/2004 18:51

Do you have a doorkey to her house? Go round when she is out, re-arrange her furniture and dig a load of plants out of her garden.

Freckle · 18/04/2004 18:51

Sorry, but that is totally out of order. I would be totally and utterly furious and demand a bl**dy good reason why she ignored your very clear instructions. If she's not prepared to let you parent the way you want to, and that includes how your children look, then she may have to forgo having them to stay. How dare she!

Nutcracker · 18/04/2004 18:52

I'd be mad about that. My mom cuts my kids hair but only after asking me first.

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 18:53

and he looks like an arse

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Tinker · 18/04/2004 18:53

Naughty granny.

gemilou · 18/04/2004 18:53

marthamoo, thats wicked but, it would be fun

Beetroot · 18/04/2004 18:53

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Tinker · 18/04/2004 18:55

or go when she is asleep and cut her hair

goosey · 18/04/2004 18:56

2 questions:-

  1. Is your mum a qualified hairdresser?
  2. Is your son old enough to have a say in whether he wants his hair cut?

I still think she was very wrong to have done it, but there could be a degree of forgiveness allowed for her wrong doing if the answers to both my questions are yes.

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:03

I have to forgive her as she is mildly insane and if i breathe a word i will get a huge lecture starting with, well i have only raised 4 children, what do i know, and if you want him to look common at school go ahead......
I am after an easy life just now, but thanks for the suggestions, i will daydream instead.......

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:06

oh and goosey

No1 No but she is qualified at everything in her own mind.
No2 he is four.

I really do hope she comes on mumsnet, i fancy an over the top family saga

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popsycal · 18/04/2004 19:13

omg - not on at all

suedonim · 18/04/2004 19:15

Oh, lordy me, I'd have gone ape-sh*t, that's dreadful.

Re Marthamoo's suggestion, I do know someone whose father had a key to her house and she came home one day to find he'd repainted the living room in a ghastly colour while she was at work!

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:18

I can't start thinking of revenge tactics for my mum and my x, i will loose the plot.

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oiseau · 18/04/2004 19:18

My granny cut my fringe (badly) when I was little and my Mum went mental. My mum then repeated this heanous crime herself, and cut my brother's dd's hair. She had 4 braids put in on holiday, they got all matted and knotty and my Mum thought they were tacky so just cut them out at the roots! Unbelievable.

Have told my Mum to stay away from DS's hair - I want it long too.

motherinferior · 18/04/2004 19:19

Hey, FF, my mum tried to re-name my nephew. She rang my sister up and told her she'd like to give them the 'gift' of a name. Sis was so wiped with a new baby and a four-year-old that she said vaguel 'OK, mum, you can refer to him as that because my partner's mum's insisting on calling him by his middle name'...and then she put the phone down and realised that in fact, our mother was trying to re-name the baby completely.

melsy · 18/04/2004 19:24

Id be really upset. I told everyone if I have a boy next I want him to have long hair & they all scrunched their noses & rolled their eyes. Bloomin cheek. Hell be my little fontleroy not theirs!! It is very dismissive , its like "mother knows best" .

JJ · 18/04/2004 19:25

She rang you after it was cut.

It'll grow back, but I'd be pissed, too. But not too much.

lou33 · 18/04/2004 19:25

FF maybe you could get your mum to cut ex h's hair?

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:28

Lol MI, my mum just thinks that if he doesn't look like a spoff then people will think he's common, she's off her bleeding nut. Daily Mail reader, of course.
I wanted a little hippy boy

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:29

I'll get her to cut is throat

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fairyfly · 18/04/2004 19:30

gosh that was a bit much sorry, don't ring the police, i didn't mean it

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Janh · 18/04/2004 19:30

FF, tell her my DN goes to a PRIVATE SCHOOL and his hair is practically on his shoulders. (He's 13, a bit skatey and has a band.) Currently it is not common!!! So ner.