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Monday, June 7, 2010

Haircut Success

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My daughter finally got a haircut. I don't think her change of mind had anything to do with me. When she was resisting, I tried to appeal to her with logic. (We have a haircut policy in our family: if it gets in your eyes, you must wear barrettes or get a trim.) She flatly refused. I tried bribes, like two balloons instead of one, and, how about a trip to the ice cream store when we're done? No way. Nobody was allowed to touch her hair. Since she does have sensory "issues" as they say, I let it go and ate that page of my family policy book. About a week later, she came to me to say that she had a hard time brushing her hair because of too many tangles, and that she would be willing to get her hair trimmed a little. I asked her how many inches. And she said one, but then changed it to a half. I've decided that haircuts are in a tricky category of control. More theirs than yours. You can't force your kid to eat, sleep, or be nice. And you need her buy-in to send pointy scissors her way.
 
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2 comments:

EO said...

That's a good happy ending!

June 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Gwendolen Gross said...

Victory is yours! And hers, really. Great post!

July 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM

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Michelle Nicholasen
I am a mother of five children, now aged 10, 11, 11, 11, and 14. This blog is inspired by the book I wrote with Barbara O'Neal, the Educational Director of Arlington Children's Center. But the blog's main purpose is to share creative ideas for managing the wacky, frustrating, often irrational behaviors of little kids. The blog is growing with my children, so the issues I am writing about today reflect the development of tweens and teens.
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