2.9 yr old absolutely hysterical getting hair cut.

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This is :-) my friend's little one, who unfortunately has tons of hair! Today she resorted to holding his arms whilst the hairdresser worked around him.

We do cuts in his house, my house and I think he's also been in a salon without much joy either. The hairdresser is so jice and brings her Lo with her when. She's coming to us, and there's always tons of distractions and bribes etc.

Can anyone help? It's really getting to his poor mum, she would just let his hair grow but honestly, he'd be like Chewbacca in a mere month. He's like his hairy daddy.

Sorry 4 typos, on tablet. I mean Samsung tablet, I'm not on pills which make me type badly!!

Can you engineer it so that he gets his hair cut with others at the same time? DS used to go with his CM and her other little charges and she made it a bit of a fun day out with ice-cream as treats afterwards. Other than that, arm-holding seems the kindest thing.

Put table cloth on living room floor
Put child's seat on top
Pop on childs favourite DVD
Hand child mug of popcorn
Cut away

brings back memories - DS was like this. He has AS and he to this day says that getting a hair cut actually hurts! he still avoids hair cuts like the plague.

he did get better though. now, 20 years later, he just complains, and tries to put it off as long as possible!

i used to have to sit DS on my knee, and hold his arms while the hairdresser did it. (while he screeched the place down) i used to warn the hairdresser before going and go when it was least busy-

I would try getting on of those DIY hair cutting things and try the DVD at home thing suggested above i think to see if that improves matters any. But some kids just hate it though eventually get used to it.

He's always with the others, we think it's better that way. And it's always with the promise of treats! I feel for him so much, and his poor mum! Also, it is as if it's hurting him. Sigh. We think perhaps next time I'll hold him as when the hairdresser went back for a second tidy up his man was with her littler one and so i held him and he wasn't bad at all, although he'd just seen my fella have his done and he was fine.

Thanks ladies. Appreciate your time.

DS still hates it and he's 4 now :(

We go to a place that puts Cbeebies on, park him in front and he still sobs all through it :(
Reckon I need to look into someone coming to our house instead and cutting his hair (and paying her double!!)

My ds was like this. We used to use the clippers on him about 4x a year. The rest of the time it was in between and long! It was too traumatic, even with clippers, it sounded like we were murdering him.

ds was like this too - we used his sister's nintendo ds as a distraction - worked very well!

I found one hairdresser that used to cut the hair from the back first, working towards the front last and then the wee ones didn't mind it so much. If they started at the front they'd no chance!

Nephew was like this he is AS as well. He gets his done by the mobile hairdresser going to Grandma's house.
She asked mil and sil to humour her one day and took dnephew into the kitchen put him in his old highchair and just chatted to him and cut his hair. It was the first time he wasn't hysterical and now gets it done no problem he is almost 4 now by the way.
He like lots if other kids behaves better for the hairdresser than his mum and grandma.

I thinkwe should try me holding him next time, and perhaps hairdresser being alone with him too. Thanks again, food for thought!

There was a hairdresser near my parents who had a huge wipe-down sofa next to a TV which could show CBeebies, and we'd check that the woman who was good with toddlers was there, and bribe ds. She could do a haircut in about 2 minutes flat, and importantly would do it symmetrically as she went along so if he ended up with 90% of a haircut he still looked OK.

Local place - the owner is wonderful - reassuring to ds, provides lots of plastic tat toys, lets him play with the clippers, and now at 3.2 can do a great job on ds with a simple bribe of a gingerbread man. However the other staff are clueless and fanny about trying to do it perfectly rather than fast, and I've had to remove a snot+hair-covered child before rather than let them keep going.

One thing is ds is terrified of those cloak things they put over him/me to keep hair off our clothes, so I have to insist they don't bother. I suspect other children are scared of them too (not to mention bulls...)

Took till my ds was 5 to get out of this...I also use youtube. Put computer on table and they are allowed to choose whatever they like. Ds2 isn't as bad as ds1 was but is certainly a bit fussy about hair (unlike dd who loves having haircuts!) and the youtube distracts him no end.