On Noooooooooooo! I've just given my 16 month old a mullet.

[spidermama]

Have you any tips on keep toddlers still for long enough to make urgent corrections to awful haircuts?

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Sit him in front of a mirror and give him a lollipop - works every time .

poor sod.

DS1 (14) has styled himself a mullet out of choice . It looks grim, but frankly, this is one of the teenage battles we are prepared to concede....

oops ! sit in front of video/dvd

LOL WB. I'll go to great lengths to ensure there is no photographic record of this. He's not one of mine while he looks like that.

I guess the lolly idea would be pretty failsafe Plug. I expect you mean a low sugar, gluten-free, pure fruit and echinacea drumstick don't you.

lol

Mine has a jagged 'fringe' where I hacked a bit out of his tumbling curls as everyone said he couldn't see.
They all still think he's a girl though.

Why of course

i once gave my (then) 10 year old son a dumb and dumber haircut!

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LOL

Ds's hair never grew until he turned 1, then by last autumn (16 months), he had a full-on mullet, naturally. It just grew that way. We met up with my brother on holiday (he lives in Australia), and it was the first time he met ds. The first thing he ever said to ds was, "Bloody hell! You've got a fine mullet!"

We've since had about three haircuts (ds will be 2 next week). Grandad did the first two, with telly working fine as a distraction first time, but not the second. So I took him to a hairdresser in town and he sat there happy as Larry, fascinated by the hairdryer someone else was using, the traffic out on the street, etc.

Ds's hair now looks passable, no longer mullet-ish, and definitely boyish. But is it possible for a male toddler to actually have cool hair? I'm thinking not.

Get down to an exciting, busy hairdresser, I say. Good luck.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one to inflict a mullett on my child. It has to be the most uncool haircut ever doesn't it?

Anyway I managed to chop a bit more while he bf-ed so though it's very uneven, it's no longer mullettish, and as we all know, that's what counts.

Horrifying picture Betty!

click on \link{http://www.kneebouncers.com/kneebouncers.html\this}, select a game and let them bash away at the keyboard while you snip.

haircuts are the least of our worries. Trying to out suncream on my 21 month old is IMPOSSIBLE at the moment, tried everything i can think of. He does have a mullet too, [plus wonky fringe] but as long as he can see I'm not too bothered!

Oh

I just did this to my toddler Spidermama. Hacked at his fringe on Tuesday which left him with Helmet-Head. "Blended in the sides" on Wednesday which made him look like Glenn Hoddle.

Answer... took 17 month old to barber down road. Barber down road is absolutely lovely and has 3 kids of his own and actually charmed my 17 month old into allowing him to cut his hair whilst keeping still. AND he saved all of his curls in an envelope for me

Its worth a trip to Nottingham just to see him really!

The barber, not my DS. Although DS is worth a trip to see as he is soooooo beeyoootiful!

So glad I'm not alone. Just given my smallest (19month-old) dd her first haircut. Mullet time! She looks like a little pie, which is sweet, as it's what we call both girls as a nickname, but I'm hoping the sides catch up with the back really soon.

LOL
I did this to ds.
Made a rigth bodge of it.
Dh made me promise never to do it again.
Was so ashamed.
Like squarer, I had to take him to the barber to get it properly sorted.

Get a cheap pair of clippers - they pay for themselves in two vistis to the hairdressers (and partner does mine too with it). Do the back with a #6, then sort out the front with scissors. Or do all #6. They may not like the tickle of the hair, so damp down when using scissors, and use a decent apron to keep it all off.

Mine likes the buzzing of the clippers and it keeps him 'fairly' happy, but TV does the rest.

James H

I cut my DDs hair whilst she was in the bath - worked reasonably well and clean up was easy.

Did need to have another go at the dodgy bits during her bath the next night though...

and the next...

the lolly sounds foolproof to me, although a gameboy works pretty well where my 4 yr old godson is concerned! there are also those kiddy hairdressers about, where they get the benefit of playing IF they sit still like a good girl or boy.