As the title says!
Dd is 2.9. She has a mop of thick tight ringlets. It’s beautiful but an absolutely nightmare to manage.
Ideally every day or so I would slather it in conditioner and gently use my fingers to tease out the tangles and separate the curls out. If I don’t do this regularly it gets impossibly tangled and matted and I end up having to cut the matted bits out.
Unfortunately this is impossible. Dd is a bath refuser, so I can rarely get her in the bath and even more rarely get her sat in there long enough to tackle her hair properly.
She also won’t sit still at all ever. Not even in front of the tv or playing on the iPad. She spends the whole time racing backwards and forwards from the sofa to the tv, clambering around and generally being a fidget.
Whenever I try and do anything to her hair she screams, bats my hands away, runs away, moves out of reach in the bath and cries ‘mummy stop doing that, I don’t like it, it hurts me’.
Short of sedating her, what can I do to get her to sit quietly while I get the tangles out?
I’ve tried giving her a doll to brush it’s hair while i do dd’s. This is just met with a big fat no I don’t want to. I’ve tried doing it in front of the tv or iPad, but she’s wise to that tactic now. What else can I try?