My eldest son gave my youngest son a haircut, I went mad!!
By Scorpio2111
@Scorpio2111 (170)
September 22, 2007 9:33am CST
Last month my 16 years old son and my 8 year old son went to stay at their aunts house. Whilst she was out my eldest thought he would 'trim' his brothers hair. He thought he would give him a Mr T.
Needless to say it went wrong. My sons hair was a nice length and he used to gel it up a little in the mornings. My sister-in-law rang me to warn me, I went mad. I couldn't understand what made him think it was ok to do.
When they came home I could have cried, I felt sick. It was a number 1 all over except for an oblong strip on top of his head which was about 1/4" in length. It took me 10 minutes to get him to take his hat off. He was crying and really upset because he just doesn't like cropped hair.
Well, it was a skinhead alright. I persuaded him to let me shave the oblong off. It looked and felt just like stubble. The only good thing was that they still out 2 weeks left of their summer holidays so it had time to grow just a little. I still hate it and so does he. It has been a month now and it is about 1/2" long. I had a right go at my oldset son but he just couldn't see what the problem was, he said it wasn't his fault that it went wrong! I said he shouldn't have touched it in the first place. If he had been at home, I wouldn't have allowed it.
Kids eh?
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7 responses
@Lifez2short (4962)
• United States
22 Sep 07
OH nice! At least it was fixable though. My 5 year old daughter decided to cut her own hair once. And needless to say she butchered it. I was so upset and cried just as you did. I had to take her to the salon and beg them to do something to fix it. She looked like a boy for a few months. And we now hide all cutting utensils in my home.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
22 Sep 07
yes, children will be thinking that cutting hairs is such an easy job and so will try their hand at it. this time, your girl found no one else around to experiment with and so did so on herself. i used to cut the hairs of my brothers then and found that i have been doing fine. later on, i tried doing so on myself. with the help of mirrors front and back, i discovered that i can cut my own hair, too! for me, that was such a major discovery. now of course, the experience makes me smile.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
23 Sep 07
This is a Great example of Stupid Parenting! Of all things to "Go Mad" about! Your boys were doing just fine at their Aunts. How do you expect them to grow up, when you won't let them do their own thing? The oldest and youngest agreed to a hair cut. They were getting along Just fine! Sure. They didn't like the outcome, maybe it wasn't what they had expected. But, so what? Hair Grows Back! It was their choice! It was a Good Choice and a good chance for them to learn something, (until you screwed it all up) Hair Grows Back! Of course your oldest couldn't see the problem! You were the only Problem! You had to Butt in! I pity your boys! If they had been home you wouldn't have allowed it. Mothers eh?
@Scorpio2111 (170)
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23 Sep 07
I don't think I am the only parent to have gone mad after such a thing. I don't think it was a good choice at all and if you had seen the haircut you probably would have felt the same. Please don't pity my boys they have a good life with responsible, loving and caring - not stupid - parents.
Now go back to bed, have a good sleep, and don't be so angry.
@Scorpio2111 (170)
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23 Sep 07
Another point is, that the boys had 2 weeks to go before school started. The schools my boys go to do not allow a haircut any shorter then a number 3, my sons hair was so short, he didn't really have any, and patchy that he and I were worried about returning to school, to a new class with his hair like that. He was worried about kids taking the mickey out of him aswell. When my eldest son went to school with a haircut that was too short, he had to stay in his form room for 2 days and not go to normal lessons because of it. I don't call that stupid parenting. I work in the school my son attends, I know what the problem would have been.
@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
23 Sep 07
ive tried giving a aircut to my nephew way back before. it was my first time to cut a air. as in the whole part of a ead. my nephew was feeling alrigt about tough. took me a very long time before i finally got it all okay.
cutting a haircut or being a hairdresser aint that easy. i then knew.
@beaniegdi (1964)
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22 Sep 07
Try to relax a bit about it. It will grow back and in time you and your sons will look back on this and laugh about it. honest. I remember when my youngest was about your youngest childs age and he went to his friends house and when they both came back to our house niether of them had hair and the other child had even shaved off his eyebrows. He looked so funny. I know I was gutted but it grows back in no time.
@Scorpio2111 (170)
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22 Sep 07
Yeah, you're right I know, I just don't like that type of hair cut. At first he looked like the kid off the Golden Child, I felt embarrassed too, I thought that people in the street would be thinking I had given him the haircut, it was all patchy you see, it wasn't a good cut at all. We went to town to get his new school shoes and I found myself explaining to the sales assistant what had happened in case she thought I had done it.
@lenapoo (678)
• United States
22 Sep 07
Kids will do things like that and think that you are the one wrong for being upset. Well, I had did something of tha nature to my baby sisters hair when I was little. My mom was pretty upset with me, but she soon got over it though. Just try to look at the bright side of everything. Maybe when they are grown up you will look at it and laugh.
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
22 Sep 07
well, just look at the brighter side of it. this means that your son is interested in cutting hairs. start training him to become a good barber. for all you know, he will do well in this business. after all, barbers are among the group of people that a community can ever live without. most of us might frown at the idea. yet, we all know that a lot of people have been doing well in life earning a living as a barber. good barbers fetch well and earn well. besides, if he will have a barber shop of his own and he gets a good flow of some clientele, he will be running his own business. not bad to be an enterpreneur. then, he can run other businesses yet if he can hire workers which are good in the craft.
