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Cindy: Cruelest Cut Of All

Posted by DFO

Dec. 3, 2009 11:38 a.m. • 12 comments

CindyH: Nothing like starting your day with a hair-raising crisis. I was trying to get 10-year-old Sam out the door to school when I heard him yell, “Mom! I had an accident with the scissors!’ Yikes! I ran upstairs and found him in my bedroom holding a pair of scissors. He’d given himself a “Moe” haircut, ala 3 Stooges. “Sam, using my scissors without permission is NOT an accident,” I said. “Yeah, but my hair is,” he replied. Didn’t have time to even him out. He’s got a couple big Christmas programs next week, so perhaps a buzz cut is in order. When I asked him why he felt the need to barber himself he just shrugged. Sigh.

Question: Have you — or a child of yours — ever created havoc by trying to cut your own hair with scissors?

12 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JeanC on December 03 at 11:45 a.m.
I used to cut my own hair all the time. However I had a little problem once cutting the back and now my hubby will make an appointment for me at the salon whenever I start muttering about scissors, hair and cutting it myself LOL!
Jen on December 03 at 11:51 a.m.
My boys not only cut their own hair, but cut each other’s hair, too. I took away the scissors, lectured them on scissor use, took a picture of their new haircuts, buzzed newer new haircuts, then scrapbooked it all.
mia on December 03 at 12:11 p.m.
My oldest daughter earned her first bangs, by cutting her pretty locks. She also gave the neighbor boy an interesting hair cut, before she was discovered. My youngest daughter sported some very interesting bangs, almost to the hair line, but not quite, just enough so they stuck straight out, for a time when she was about five years old. Aw, the fascination with scissors and hair!!!
idawa on December 03 at 12:51 p.m.
When I was a kid, I would often get into the same predicament as Cindy’s boys. I’m not sure why, but I often thought there was something wrong with my hair that I could fix myself with just a snip here or there. More often than not, I was wrong, and usually made the problem worse. Ugh, I had luckily forgotten about those youthful mistakes but now they have all come flooding back to me. Thanks.

Of course, maybe that explains the generous amount I pay to have my haircut now, about $50+ a pop.
Cabbage Boy on December 03 at 1:05 p.m.
Alas, yes. I think it is a step into manhood for boys. Not sure what it symbolizes, but it happens with most of them. I remember cutting my bangs when I got tired of waiting for my mom to cut my hair. I thought I did a good job. Judging by mom’s reaction, I was wrong.
Sisyphus on December 03 at 1:10 p.m.
“$50+ a pop”—gah! NO sabe.

I cut my wife’s hair at her insistence. Not that I’m good at it. We’re just cf’s. I do pay for mine but not that much. And Sue, I tip generously. ;-)
idawa on December 03 at 1:24 p.m.
Sis - In my defense, I live in Seattle where everything cost more and that does include tip (i think that actual charge is $34)!

There is no way my wife would ever let me near her head with scissors …
Sisyphus on December 03 at 1:28 p.m.
I know bub. I suspect you are more the norm than I. No defense necessary.
Cis on December 03 at 1:31 p.m.
When my daughter was 3 (she is now 39) was home with her father babysitting but asleep, her older brothers convinced her that boy were better than girls…. and of course the only way to be a boy was to have short hair. But, they didn’t want to get into trouble, so they talked her into cutting it herself. It was about a inch or less, long all over except for an inch wide down the back which was about 2 feet long. A pixie is all I could do to straighten it out. Her father upon waking up to the giggling, was horrified.

I couldn’t really get mad at her, especially after what the boys said… and when my mother was in the hospital having my brother some 25 years before.. my cousin cut my hair… to one inch.. I had had 2 feet of hair also. My aunt was horrified, as she was outside hanging up clothes, and was trying to figure out how to tell her brother when he came to pick me up that night.
Cindy_H on December 03 at 1:31 p.m.
I’m not good with scissors. I flunked cutting and pasting in kindergarten. Obviously, Sam gets his skills from me.
If I threaten to cut someone’s hair, they run to the nearest barbershop.
I have offered to shave my husband’s back, however.
Cis on December 03 at 1:33 p.m.
By the way, what is it, that kids get gum in their hair the night before school picture day? And of course, always in front…

So you try to figure out how to cut it out with out damages.
Getting it out other ways in one hour from wake up to bus time, just isn’t enough time to try other ways.
mike_s on December 03 at 2:04 p.m.
Isn’t cutting ones own hair kind of the hipster thing to do these days?

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