I Can Do It Myself!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Monday, June 07, 2010 7:43 PM
Both my kids have gotten their first-ever haircuts in the past month. And I did them!
Blaise is sixteen months and his hair had never been trimmed. I was loath to take that step, since it seemed to symbolize the end of his babyhood. But he was starting to get a mullet. The hair growing off the back of his head was looking ridiculous.
I asked my stylist and she said that there was no point in bringing him to her if he wasn’t going to sit still (which he certainly wouldn’t) and that I could do just as good a job cutting his hair at home. She told me how to do it.
A few days later I got out the spray bottle and the scissors and asked my sister to help me, and we cut Blaise’s hair. It was comical, really: the two of us chased him around the room; she’d grab him and I’d take a couple snips before he got away again. If I’d been thinking we would have put him in his high chair with a lollipop, but he has so little hair that the entire cutting process was over in less than ten minutes.
I’m happy. I feel silly, too, for making such a big deal about what turned out to be a minor thing. If we’d buzz-cut his hair I might feel differently, but we didn’t. Blaise no longer has a mullet, but he still looks like a baby. It’s good.
I never imagined I could cut hair successfully. I can’t even do a French braid! But after Blaise’s haircut, I started feeling confident. So when my other sister pointed out that Camilla’s hair (which had never been cut in her 44 months of life) had a weird-looking unevenness to it - including a curl that was fully 1/3 again as long as any of the others - I decided she needed a haircut too.
Bribed with the chance to watch a video, she happily sat still whille I wetted and trimmed. I was slightly nervous but my sister reminded me that curls are very forgiving, and it’s true. It took me about twenty minutes until I was satisfied that all the pieces were even. It looked fine, and it looked even better after I’d blow-dried it.
I hadn’t thought my children looked scraggly before, but now that they’re both sporting neat new haircuts I can see that… they kind of did.
In the future they’ll probably be getting professional haircuts, but for now while they’re young and not picky, I can do it myself. I didn’t think I could. I feel pretty proud of myself!
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