Have you ever had one of your kids cut their own hair?
When I was in college, I had a sweet friend who helped me fix my car in a snowstorm! It was one of the most frigid days I can remember, so it was a really big deal. I worked at our local rec center, and always closed up the place at the end of the day...alone...so there was no one around. She happened to be at the post office across the street. Anyway, this is about haircuts. After helping me, I promised to babysit her three kids anytime she wants. A few weeks later, she asks me if I will sit for a weekend. Of course, I said yes, and I was super excited I was finally going to get to repay her! So the weekend comes, and I make good on my promise. The whole weekend was so fun...the kids were really great! About 30 minutes before my friend and her husband were due to come home, I had the kids all cleaned up and the house spotless. Cole, the youngest...about 4 at the time...is super quiet, so I go searching all over the house for him. I finally found him hiding under the dining table, scissors in hand. He had just given himself one serious haircut! (He had the cutest bowl cut...let's just say it was a TON of hair). I was flipping OUT! Mom and dad come home, I explain, Cole gets a buzz cut THAT DAY! He loved it...mom, not so much.
I hear a lot of horror stories (and have seen the aftermath) of other people's kids giving themselves haircuts...but none of my own children had ever given themselves a cut. Until today. Carleigh cut her hair above her ears! At first, I didn't notice it...but I found hair all over my bathroom floor and in the trashcan (she had tried to clean it up!) I was going to just give her a bob, but she protested. She has an appointment on Monday...and if the powers that be say it needs to come off....off it shall come!
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Oh no! I would probally cry if Lily did that.
When Lily was younger she got a hold of my scissors and cut a few pieces of hair around her ears but luckily I had the top part pulled up so it covered it when I took it down.
Hope all goes well with the new haircut!
~Ali
Hey, Buffy! Welcome to the blogosphere!
No haircuts here yet (he's only 17 months ... give it time), but I cut my bangs in high school and that was a complete disaster. They wound up being about 2 cm long. I learned my lesson.
So, how did the haircut turn out...we want a picture?!
Oh my. Mine have never done that (yet). My friend LIsa said when her daughter cut her hair off, she cried. Not out of thankfulness that her daughter didn't injure herself, but out of the shock of how bad it looked!! I think her daughter cut a lot of including her bangs which were so short they stuck straight up! Did Carleigh end up with a short bob?
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