how would you deal/punish this one??

[blossom2]

DD1 (3.5yrs) managed to hold of a pair of scissors and cut her hair today whilst i was cooking her dinner. it wasnt much and i didnt even notice until i decided to sweep the floor ...

i'm really angry .... how do you think i should deal with this one?? what would you do??

shave her head bald and yours too

Lol Sorry.
I know you're angry so when you're calm the main issue is really her "playing" with sharp things. Explain to her what could have happened if she'd fallen on them etc. The hair thing is'nt the big deal. At least it'll grow back.
My ds1 was around that age when I wondered why he's gone so quiet. I found him on my aunts bed, scissors in hand and her cat curled in his lap. one whole side of the cats face was bare of whiskers! I did the naughty speech, the danger of sharp objects etc (still don't know how he got hold of them) and then retreated into another room where I dissolved into fits!
I think most kids have done this or similar at some point.
Good luck x

she does things like this all the time

on the one hand we think she is really ingenius but then i dont want her doing it at all ...
the other night, she got out of bed, went downstairs and played in her toy room, switched on lights and got some steps to reach the fridge. then must have got tired and got into bed with us. we only realised what she had done the next morning. we couldn't put a stairgate in because its rented property ...

Blossom, we've got stairgates up and ours is rented too. Try the ones that don't use screws etc. They don't leave marks.
Mind you, you may find she'll figure them out

You may well be angy, but ask yourself where she got the scissors from and how and should they have been put somewhere safer...?

Before you think I'm being harsh, I felt I couldn't be too angry with DS2 (4) for cutting his shorts earlier this year because he shouldn't have been able to get hold of scissors in the first place - that part of the event was my fault.

I don't think you should punish her, she wouldn't have been able to cut her hair if she did not have access to scissors.

No need for punishment surely?

i wouldn't punish her... she's only 3 and a half!

Nope - no punishment IMO unless she has deliberately disobeyed an instruction to not do it at the time. I doubt she would realise what she was being punished for this late in the day anyway. More importantly the lesson to be learned here is to make doubly sure that the sharps much more carefully locked away in future.

Our stairgates were all by lindem which expanded to fit gap and involved no drilling holes in walles etc.

I don't think punishment is the answer here either. A quick speech on why you mustn't play with scissors is the way to go, then leave it. No real harm done this time.

If you think about it she hasn't done anything "wrong" really. She found something and experimented with how they worked.

Oh and make sure the scissors are out of reach in future!

Think 'sense of humour' is the best thing to fall back on here! And be grateful she didn't giver herself a lopsided crew cut

My dd did this to her hair last year, she ahd a party the following day as Wicked Witch says I was at fault for leaving scissors out.

DD wrecked her hair she mulleted herself and we had to take her to the hairdressers to get it all cut off ( a very cute Mia Farrow look which I loved) and that was punishment enough, dd was and still is a girly girl and was devastated to have short boyish hair. To this day,( it happened last october) she remembers doing it and I know she would never do it again - she is alays comparing her short little bob to her friends flowing locks and her favourite story is Rapunzel.

As others have advised humour has to come into play, she is better of doing this at 3 then in a few years.

Blossom she sounds just like my dd, we got up one night to find she had tried to make cakes, the kitchen was covered in flour and broken eggs and she had fallen asleep with a wooden spoon in her hand. I had to feel proud that she had remembered to put Baking powder in even if it was a full tin!

Try to explain to her that you don't want her to do it again and why then leave it. It happens to most of them (all of mine did it at some point...), but she probably won't do it again. The less fuss the better I think! You will look back and laugh honestly.

At 3.5yrs you can't really give her a row the next day. I take it she got a row a t the time. You don't want to hold it over her for any longer, maybe just when you are brushing her hair say "well what am I supposed to do with this?"