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I got home late Sunday from the trip and my kids were asleep. I went to work Monday morning and only saw them briefly that morning. I got home Monday night and, after some play time and stuff, set about catching up on the ever-increasing honey-do list. I noticed Junior was hiding behind the big comfy chair, not uncommon for her and The Second to disappear behind the chair for a bit.
A bit later, she was out and running around. I look at the Mrs. and say Did Junior get a haircut? She tells me no. I said Hmm, looks like she did. I’m assured she did not. A few minutes later, the Mrs. says Oh my god, what did you do to your hair?
Apparently, while behind the comfy chair, she had a pair of scissors and was cutting the front of her hair. Boy, was the Mrs. pissed. She could have chewed some aluminum and crapped nails. I thought fireballs were going to come out of her eyes. I briefly felt sorry for Junior.
Lesson learned: let me know when the kids have scissors, which will now be in approximately never.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Well look at it this way,”Don’t run with the scissors ” will not have to be uttered.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Well, if she gets any good at it, women may one day pay her hundreds of dollars for a haircut. 🙂
August 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Heh! Ours did it too. Hair grows back.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
BabyGirl G. has done this.
On several occasions.
Once with PLASTIC scissors…
August 27th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
My 3yo cut up the tee shirt he was wearing to get the race car on it. When asked why, “because no one told me that I shouldn’t cut my shirt, only that it’s bad to cut my hair.” The scissors are under lock and key now.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I concur with ‘nk’ at 12:26. My granddaughter, at 3+, has done this ‘let’s do a little trim’ thing, too. Multiple times. The hair grows back. Remember. It’s _not_ good to stifle the little one’s creative juices! 😉
August 27th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Over-controlling parents are one reason, along with a cruel sense of humor, that I regularly gave my nieces and nephews toys like Playdoh, Silly Putty (both great on carpets), toy tool sets (with real hammers and saws they can use to ‘fix’ the furniture!), and of course pocket knives, leatherman tools, and hunting knives. I figure if the kids are going to learn anything about proper behavior, they have to have the proper tools to experiment with relatively improper behavior.
Hair grows back. Black eyes, broken noses, the odd gouge will heal. Pictures are forever. Remember to take pics for blackmail later.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
My son last year cut a girls hair to make her like him. We received a note informing us he would not be allowed to use his scissors alone due to improper use of school marterials. We also discussed the path to a girls heart is not through hair.
I agree with the hair grows back, and I hope the son’s interactions with the fairer sex are improving.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I think this is a rite of passage for kids.
My son cut his so close to the scalp we had to basically shave his head to even it out (not razor close, but boot camp close).
The daughter’s wasn’t quite as dramatic, but she took a large hunk out of one side. She had beautiful long hair that we had to cut back to a pixie.
It does grow back and Mrs. Uncle will be laughing about it soon enough.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
My only complaint is that you included no pictures!! The Missus must have REALLY been cheesed off!
And a couple of my 5 did it as well. It grows back. Relatively quickly. Unlike teeth. One of mine decided to fool around with a ball – harmless, right? We thought so, too. Until he stood on it and flipped forward and landed on it mouth first, knocking out his two front teeth.
Teeth will often reimplant if given a chance and so we got him calmed down enough to straighten and reseat them. Until he pulled them out a day later. Fortunately they were baby teeth and his adult teeth grew in later. Unfortunately he was without his two front teeth for a couple of years and not a few weeks as is usually the case …
I’ll take an interesting hair cut any day …
Ken
August 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The guvmint needs to register, license and maybe even ban those “assault” scissors….to protect the children.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
No harm done. Go easy on ’em.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
How’s this for stupid? My 8 year old got a braid right front on vacation. It was about 16 inches long. One night she asked me to untangle it since she was tired of it. I tried for a half an hour and thought screw it and I just snipped it off. My wife got home and went nuclear. She was right, took a long time to grow out.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Mommy One angrily knocks at the door of Mommy Two.
Mommy One: Your daughter has been playing doctor with my son.
Mommy Two: Calm down. They’re just curious.
Mommy One: Curious? She took out his appendix.