Where, how and should I cut my 2 year olds hair?

[LadyOfWaffle]

DS still has baby hair, but recently I have noticed it very long behind hid his ears and can look really scruffy, but I am scared that a) he won't sit for a hair cut b) it will look awful - blunt and choppy like he has done it himself. Is it best to leave it as long as possible? If it is brushed (or just not all over the place) it looks fine - just like a baby really. Shall I leave it?

BTW I don't mean me cut it... that's the where part - where would you take a 2 year old for a haircut?

I did dd2's at the dinner table, not the most hygenic I know but she was eating and I put the tv on (a rare treat at tea time) and it let me get the fuzzy straggly bits off at the back, her being in the highchair helped too

all went well until dd1 grassed me up to dd2 who then noticed I was at her with a pair of scissors lol

it wasn't a proper haircut, just a tidy of fuzzy bits and she's not 2 until next week

to the hairdressers. Seriously. Thats where mine have gone since they were 1. DS will sit on your knee

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Ha ha - lucky you Disco. Our DS - only when asleep and over a few nights. The trauma otherwise is exhausting for DS (now 2), us (holding him-ish) and barber (who needs a cigarette to recover at the end of it all).

Thank goodness DS has curly hair, so out random slicing is disguised .

Sitting on knee indeed - PAH!

Talk to some other mums to see if they can recommend a very child friendly hair dresser. i find little one-person salons can be best as my ds is frightened of hair dryer noise, so if I take him to the tiny one-woman shop we're the only customers and he's fine. Take lots of toys / chocolate buttons for distraction. Don't worry because hair dressers are used to doing small children's hair.

friend of mine takes in her two boys with a portable dvd player too

oh i'm in a minority i see. They are girls mind so they think they're very grown up (3&5) when they sit in the chairs on their own. They both have curly hair too.

i agree with fluffy. Take their favourite cuddly toy or some choc buttons to distract. Hairdressers are used to small children.

portable dvd player!

Definitely get a recommendation and IME avoid 'traditional' barbers as they will scalp him then say 'at least you look like a boy now!'...then DS will say 'where did my curls go, Mummy?'...

Bitter, bitter experience

i do it myself. lots of warning and requests for compliance, sometimes we visit shop to buy a sweetie for the occasion. a favourite telly prog is essential. keep the sweetie till afterwards in case it gets covered in hair or they take it and bugger off when you've only done half a fringe. a lollipop on the mantlepiece is a powerful motivator for the small.

i do front in one sitting, back in another. for the first couple of cuts at similar age to yours i just did the back to get rid of baby mullet.

TWICE, I might add! [fume]

I know disco but thats what she feels she needs to do and it works for her boys

my dd (nearly 5) sits nice but I wouldn't put my hairdresser through it with dd2, she has mental curly hair and I just shove a clasp in it

I cut my little girl's in front of the telly. Put newspaper under a little chair, told her what I was gonna do and hacked away! she has a cute (if slightly shorter than intended ) bob now. I cut my own hair too mostly though... Not sure about a boy as they might need more of a 'style'? - maybe would take to hairdressers actually?

With any new situation, I do lots of roleplay first so they know what to expect.

I did DS1's for ages, put high chair in sittingroom infront of favorite program and slowly gently go round with a comb taking off stragly ends.
by doing it ourselves, I found that it wasn'tt a stress - what does it matter if it takes all day / couple of days.
I would hoever start doing it somehow as DS1 has a few friends who HATE having their hair cut at all one mum does it whilst the child is asleep at night.. he cries so much he vomits if they do it whilst he is awake.

If it works for her, fine. Was just a bit surprised really, would never have occurred to me. There are a few curly haired DC's on this thread. My DD's are the only curly haired ones in their school

Sorry Reach - trad barber it isn't. Has CBeebies on the TV, not a look like a boy attitude, even supplies chocolates!

Last straw was DS winning the fight, but looked like Chewbacca - melted chocolate everywhere, covered in snippings which frustrated and upset him more than the haircut. Could not keep a straight face.

Just not worth it at the moment, so we sneek uo on him when asleep. Ah the fun of parenting.

Both hairdressers I've taken DS1 to have had special chairs for children and haven't batted an eyelid at the prospect of cutting a child's hair.
He behaves SOOO much better for a stranger than for me. When I cut his hair, there's howling, pushing, leaning away. When a hairdresser does it, he's completely still (probably frozen with fear) and he only whispers if he wants to talk.
My only tip - make sure YOU take him and nobody else. DH took 3yr old DS to the barber while I was in hospital after DD born, telling the barber "cut it shorter than his mother would want it". He now looks like a soldier, and about 5 years older...sob.

DS1 is coming up 2 and like me has thick but straight hair that grows like mad. I have laways (to date) managed to get in the bath with him and sit behind him to cut it. He is busy with water and toys so happy. Easy to cut when wet - straightens out the kinks and all washes away so no itchy bits!
Good luck - I know my days are numbered!

THanks - I think I'll leave it for now and maybe ask the hairdresser when I am next there if he needs it done.