This week's surprise tantrum topic was "the haircut". I am not a stranger to this particular tantrum as both my boys have tried different variations when I've suggested a simple trim. What is so horrible about a damn haircut I ask you? Granted, I had episodes in college where I came home from salons crying and carrying on, but I paid lots of money to those hacks who clearly did not understand what the "Rachel cut" entailed (ie, it was not supposed to resemble a mullet). Now, I'm a mom of boys and I just figure, "Eh, it's hair and it'll grow back eventually. I can always throw on a hat."
When my boys were very young I would trim their hair while they napped on the couch. Cause that's not creepy to wake up to your mother hovering over you with a sharp set of scissors, right? One time Zack woke up when I was trying to coax him to turn his head to the other side... but then he wouldn't go back to sleep. He walked around for a day looking like Harvey Dent (aka Two-Face) with short-cropped hair on one side and curly locks on the other. I had to wait for the next day's nap to even things out.
As my boys got older we would plop them in a chair with a lollipop to try to make it seem like a fun little game. They would have none of it. After a while they were covered in little hairs, tears, and red candy slobber running down their little chins, while the DumDum started to resemble a fuzzy Tribble instead of a lollipop. I caved and took them to the expensive kids' hair places where you pay a lot of money for them to sit in their own little jeep and watch Thomas videos, but it was no different. Except that I was out twenty bucks and I was resentful because I could've done a better job.
My older son likes to go to a sport-themed place because he wants the "MVP" where you get a shampoo, cut, and style, not to mention a hot towel (for a prepubescent face), and a neck massage. And it's still a crappy job. Back to cheap-ass mom's salon for you! Why does neither kid agree to a quick, easy military buzz cut which takes the least amount of time?
When Logan was finished with his traumatic haircut, I told Zack that he needed a cut as well. He looked nervous after all the crying and carrying on his brother had done, and noticing that I was not in the best of moods he quietly scampered away saying something about just wanting his hair "thinned out" and that I could take him to my stylist later. Ha! Yeah, right. He's just putting off the inevitable.
Maybe I'll have my evil twin take over the haircuts.
I dont know how you do it...Nathan better not ever have a tantrum about his hair or I might hurt him. Send the boys down to Uncle John :) We just went to super cuts paid 16 bucks for a really good one, 2 on the sides, trim up the top, and tapper the back...PERFECT! I HATE Sports Clips!! Those people do not know what they are doing.
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