Maybe I'm blocking something out, but to my current knowledge, The Little One is officially the first of the Afloat brood (parents excepted) to cut their own hair. She had a pair of child scissors and was confettying a piece of yellow construction paper, so I let her be. Later, I found a few small curls of hair among all of the yellow.
Luckily, she didn't take off much, and you can't really tell. I'm hoping this is an only time and not a precursor to what I did to myself at around age 4 or 5, which involved much screaming by my mother. I calmly told her not to do it again, because we don't do that. That's the thing about hair-cutting, both of self and others: in most cases, we've never told them not to.
The Little One has in general become fairly defiant. She hits when she doesn't get what she wants, and won't stand up if she wants to be carried. Luckily, she's still awfully cute to people outside the family, but at home, she can be a handful combined with E. She wants what she wants when she wants it, and he needs me when he needs me, whether he wants me there or not.
This is a stage, I know. For both of them, I guess. I wonder which one will last longer?
4 comments:
The first to cut her own hair?? I thought it was something every kid did at least once.
At three years old, one of my girls decided she doesn't want bangs, so she cut them off. Clear across. Every last bit of bangs.
My girls cut their hair at ages 4 and 3, the day before we left for a family vacation, and I had no choice but to cut off more to even it out... so we have lots of vacation pictures of their unusually short hair preserved for posterity.
Nice. I'm surprised too. I just can't remember it happening before this. I HAVE had kids color entire limbs with permanent markers.
Just this week DS #3 (age 5), home from school and bored cut his sister's (age 3) hair. A lot. What can I say... I think all of my kids have been either hairdressers or the hair cut victims at some point. Except the baby, who does not have enough hair yet.
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