What hair cut do you like for your boy ??

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Personally i like it long layered and thick. . .in other words.. . . a bit like an Eton Flop. . .or wedge. . .the latest thing with lots of fringe.

And you ?????

My pet hate is the No 1 job , , really really short and spikey or worse still a crew cut. . .

No 2 (well 1 1/2 works best).

If it gets past a 3, especially on DS2 and 3 then if they get the dreaded nits even the nitty whatsit comb doesn't work

though I usually get a no.1 for them so I don't have to spend so much - otherwise it's a monthly job and £15 a piece (as despite my best efforts I can't use the clippers on them )

no £15 total (if I go during the week - if I can't get in after school and have to go on a Saturday it's £17.50 for the 3 of them

sorry wrote "piece" instead of "each time"

DS is working a surfer / paul weller / strokes-y / menswear hair do.

I usually cut it myself but we went to the hairdressers for the first time recently and asked for a surfer-y, liam gallagher-y hairdo.

DS (7) gets number 2 round the sides and then barber uses scissors on the top, it is quite short, it suits him and his funky glasses.

However, at the moment - he has a very odd shaven patch in the very front as he tried to shave a stripe down the middle of his head with his daddy's clippers (no guard)

I don't have any preference for long / short hair for boys, both DS best friends have longish blonde hair and it suits them.

Short back and sides for ds1 (15 on Sun). With a little sort of quiffy thing at the front. It's his chosen style too, fortunately.

Ds2 (3)- I love his blonde curls but they get tangled so easily that he just gets 'make it a bit tidier please as fast as you can'. So whatever happens in 10 mins.

Longish, shaggy surfer kind of cut for ds 9. It looks great on him :)

Timely thread. PFB is going for his first haircut next week at 2 years old. I am feeling ludicrously emotional about it! It will just be a tidy up, I don't want it very short.

Short back and sides. I'm not a fan of Bodenesque surfer dude hair myself - but in any case, DS's school has v strict rules about hair (which basically means they have to have it short and neat and "free from products", as they say, and that's that).

DS (8) isn't in the slightest bit interested in his hair, and dutifully trots off to the barber's shop every six weeks for a tidy. I wouldn't dream of actually styling his hair any more than he would dream of it.

MrsW ds's school is the same but we rebel!

Valium, DH's headmaster would get the clippers out himself if we were even to think of rebelling. I believe he has done it before...

DS tends to get it cut around once a term, when his fringe looks as though it might start interfering with his vision, to short back and sides but longer on top (and fringe trimmed by chopping into it rather than cutting across otherwise he looks like a Vulcan). Then it gets gradually longer and shaggier until the next haircut. Personally I like it best about half to two-thirds of the way through the cycle.

This is excluding last summer, where he chopped a huge chunk out of the front right up close to the scalp when "bored" and armed with a pair of scissors, so his only option was to go very short all over (which he hated) and it's only just about grown out now.

DS1 wants to grow his longer like some of his friends..........I'm still trying to get through to him that it DOESN'T WORK on his hair and it never will. Longer than about 1/2 inch and it's already wild and out of control and unruly. Long like some of his mates would look, well it'd look like a wet rat dragged through a hedge backwards with a bit of hedgehog thrown in. It really wouldn't be a "cool" look.........

MrsW We got a letter the other week saying that children would be removed from class and taught away from their peers if they didn't conform - I thought THAT was bad enough! It's out of ds's eye's and that's the most important thing IMO. His hair is very unmanageable UNLESS it's and inch all over which he hates and makes him look like a thug, OR shaggy surfer. So we go with the latter!

DS currently sports a 'BoJo who's had his head rubbed with a balloon'. It's blond and fluffy and grows straight up. I don't want to cut it yet though, he's only 19 mo. It draws a lot of comments.

DS 3.5 just has some mad fluffy mop. It hangs in his eyes at the front and sticks out at the back about 4 inches. He is psychotic about hairdressers, so we just run in and get as much off as poss in the 30 seconds it take from him to go from zero to bonkers That's a frazzled emoticon.

Old fashioned short back and sides - but not for any particularly thought out reason, just because that's the only haircut I'm capable of, and I'm too tight to take him to a hairdresser. :)

at 'BoJo'.

Double crown and cowslick means he has very short/shaved head. Its practical and doesn't get in the way and i don't think he need a style yet. Also it shows of his little face and reminds me of Picasso's Child Holding Dove Picture.