There are some rites of passage that are pleasurable for parents. The first smile! The first steps! And then there is the very first time you discover your child has gotten hold of a pair of scissors and given something -- or worse, someone -- a haircut.
As a fellow traveler on the road who was once informed by a certain person under 4 feet tall that "Dora did it" (yes, that Dora), you have my leave to go scream into a pillow when it happens. OR, you could try this. A father named Jeff Cohen, a very brave soul indeed, decided to ask his 5-year-old exactly WHY she gave her little sister a haircut. The result, as they say, is priceless. Take a listen:
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OK. Be honest with me now: could you be angry after that? I mean, there was a reasonable explanation (no one wants hair in the toilet after all) shared in the type of voices that I wish we could bottle. Little girls only sound like that for so long, but I have always thought that's what fairies sound like -- all tinkly and sugary.
That first kid-performed haircut is infuriating. I get it! Not only have I dealt with my daughter's, oh, excuse me, Dora's scissor shenanigans, but I was once the wielder of those instruments of ... oh I'll just say it: torture. I tortured my younger brother by cutting a rather large swath of hair off his head. Of course I told my mother that he "fell" into the scissors, to which she more or less responded, "yeah, right."
But this is what kids DO! We did it. Our parents did it. And if it hasn't happened in your home ... it will. Just wait until you hear their explanation before you decide how to handle it! You never know what they'll have to say!
How did the "haircut" go down in your household?
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I woke up early one Saturday morning a very long time ago to find that my then four year old daughter had not only chopped off her own waist length hair, but had also cut her two year old brothers hair down to the scap (yes, they beat me out of bed, I know, I'm a terrible parent). When I asked her what she was thinking she told me that she "was trying to show her little brother that getting a haircut isn't so scary" How could I argue with that???? The funny thing is that when I went to look for the scissors and the cut off hair I couldn't find it, she had hidden the "evidence" in a box and stuffed it behind a chair!
lol i gave my cat a hair cut when i was 4
OOOMMMMGGGG this was just BRILLIANT..!!! Bless those two little sweeties, bc they made me laugh sooo hard.. and really, people think about it: it's HAIR it grows back.. thankfully there were no injuries, we r talkin scissors here.. but the way they spoke of it..wow.. they are just too too adorable.. and dad has a gr8 vid to replay at a wedding...lmbo!!!!
I cut my bangs while at school and then tried to be sneaky by not coming into the living room after school...stayed in the kitchen and asked for a popsicle...mom said yes and I ate it, then she got to see how horrible my hair looked.
My own daughter was quite a different little cutter...she cut a chunk out of her EYEBROW while at school. She had a bald patch right in the middle. I quickly called my mom who told me to take a picture because she had always wished she would have taken one of my horrendous haircut!
"It was almost down to her tush." OMG so precious!!!
I guess I got away easy my kids who are now 10 & almost 9 never gave eachother hair cuts.
cute! MIL cut DD's hair when she was little I was mad to say the least!
LOL they are cute. I think I am one of the very rare lucky moms who have nevr had to deal with hair cutting midgets. Mine are all almost grown (23,21,20, and 14). I did have one of my girls try to chave at the age of 3 though, she climed up on the sink and got out dad's razor, the results were not pretty.
My oldest son 5 does whatever he wants when ever. He doesnt care about authoruty. My kids were playing down stairs. I had a spare room with holiday things. There was a plastic tote in the closet. He went in there and trashed the room, I had a few friends over other wise I am watching 24-7. So he found the Christmas sissors. My 2 year old daughter was sitting and he chopped off half her hair. He came up screaming because he cut himself! I felt cold! I RAN down and saw the mess!