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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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stupidgirl · 18/04/2004 22:16

OMG, I would go mental too.

My mum seems quite normal compared to some of yours

eddm · 18/04/2004 22:17

Suedonim, my sister's ex-p had a ding dong with his ex-FIL (previous relationship). FIL let himself in one day and painted the sitting room, walls and ceiling (all lime green - nice. I don't think). and replaced the original ceiling rose and light fitting with a cheap and nasty plastic one. Bad enough but next time FIL thought he'd do something nice for his daughter he tried to replace the front door. Only new door too big. So he knocked a bloody great hole in the brick wall. Ex-p had to fork out large amount of money to get someone in to replace the door surround...

aloha · 18/04/2004 22:27

They are all quite mad! Hilarious stories though.
FF, I'd so soooooo cross. But it will grow back.

littlemissbossy · 18/04/2004 22:48

Fairyfly - that is outrageous! Perhaps a conversation along the lines of - thanks for cutting ds's hair and making him look an "arse" no doubt when he's bullied at school and eventually turns into mad, serial killer of hairdressers i'll know who to blame!!

suedonim · 19/04/2004 09:51

Oh wow, some of these stories!! Thanks for cheering me up on a Monday morning.

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fairyfly · 19/04/2004 09:55

I was embarassed to take him in this morning, i looked like i'd been pissed and cut his hair, he is the kid out of About a boy.

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iota · 19/04/2004 10:18

My mother once cut a huge chunk out of my nephew's fringe - we were all visiting her at the time - I was really shocked - and this was before I had kids of my own or any maternal instinct. I can't believe she did it - and my SIL was really calm.
It looked terrible - longish hair with a curved asymetric fringe about a cm long.

Luckily she's never come near my ds's with scissors

motherinferior · 19/04/2004 10:26

I forgot to add that the nephew my mum tried to re-name has the same name as your son. So keep him awayyyyy!

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fairyfly · 19/04/2004 10:31

It must be the name, it must scream interfere, my mother doesn't know what she is doing.

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Galaxy · 19/04/2004 10:36

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fairyfly · 19/04/2004 17:43

OK, i am furious now, i keep looking at him and getting worse. I really really wanted him to have long hair. There is absolutely no choice i have to shave it off. It has taken months to grow. I am mad.

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tallulah · 19/04/2004 21:15

I have a mother who is obsessed with cutting hair too. ALL my boys had long hair as little ones, & the more she dripped about it, the more determined I was to keep it long! It was only when they started whining themselves about it that I gave in & let the hairdresser cut it short(er).

She also tried it with DD. "Her hair is very fine. Yours was fine. We kept it short to thicken it up". "Hmm" I said. They took her to France when she was 3 & I made a point of following them out to the car and saying "I expect her hair to be the same length when she comes home". They were so surprised I'd actually said something that she came home in one piece! (I did get lots of tales about it being so hot that she'd have been better with it cut, and how another little girl they met "did have hair to her waist but her mother had it cut off before they went"

She also ran 2 playgroups & regularly cut children's fringes if she thought they were too long! I'd have gone ballistic, but none of the mums complained.

It is no coincidence that neither I nor my 38 year old brother have EVER had short hair through choice...

WideWebWitch · 19/04/2004 21:16

ff, if it's any consolation my ds (6.5yo) decided to cut his own hair at about 9 O'CLOCK the other night with the nail scissors from the bathroom. I had no idea he was even awake until he called me up to look at it. Hmmm, baldy at the front, kind of in the middle at the front, he looks like that weird dolly from Toy Story 2, the one with meccanno legs and a shaved head. It also looks like I got pissed, had a go at it and then gave up. Luckily he left some spiky bits at the front so it's just about ok. You're not alone, hey, it'll grow on both of them

sammac · 19/04/2004 21:29

When my mum was in hospital having my brother, me and dad were staying at my nanna's (dad's). I was 3. My nanna took me to the village BARBER and got my hair in a bowl-type cut as she couldn't cope with my long hair.

Mum says she still remembers me running down the path to see her and she burst out crying at the sight of me, with my long blonde hair shorn.

Lots of photos of me with a variety of things growing out my fringe.

Needless to say things were always pretty cool between them after that.

grumpyzebra · 19/04/2004 21:33

Mohawk it, FF, mohawk it! Just for the afternoon, just long enough to give your mother apolexy.

WideWebWitch · 19/04/2004 21:36

haha grumpyzebra! yes, ff, do and dye it green too. That'll teach her.

hercules · 19/04/2004 21:37

Haven't read all of this but I would be furious and it would take me a long time to get over it. The haircut is a small thing but it is all the rest of the stuff that goes with it.
God, i hope i never do the same with my grandchilden.

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fairyfly · 19/04/2004 21:39

It's gone and he looks gorgeous to be honest, really suits him, a no.5. Won't admit that to anyone else though.

Laughing at cutting the nursery school hair, wow.
Also toy story doll, my son looked simple not evil.

Just missed your post zebra, i should have.

Oh well she won short hair it is

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twiglett · 19/04/2004 21:40

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