Hair today..... and tomorrow.

[wattle]

Ds is developing a hair phobia - help.

It is really thick and grows so quickly. He has had about 5 haircuts in his life, but lately he won't let anyone touch his hair. He screams as if we're sticking pins in his head if we try and cut it.

Now he has started the same behaviour at hair washing time. He gets himself so worked up about it, it doesn't seem worth washing it any more...... but we can't do that forever.

Any suggestions?

[poshBecks]

Hi!

Maybe you could try just brushing his hair every morning, or even just running your fingers through it. Just touch his head & hair a lot in general. Get him used to the touch a bit again & go from there. This stage will pass though. I am a hairdresser & I used to have hair phobic kids come in a lot & after time it would pass. All I can recommend mostly is try & make it a positive experience rather than a negative one for him if at all possible. :o Good luck.

[Chickadee]

DD went through some of this too, I think around your DS's age. I just perservered. For washing her hair I found that what she really hated was having the water poured over her head, so I would lay her down in the tub on her back (with much argument and fighting from her!) so that I could quickly dunk most of her head in and rinse that way. I tried to distract her with lots of encouragment to splash her feet, with mixed success.

I don't know if these would help or not but just some ideas. If you have a doll with hair of some sort then maybe make a game of having DS brush and wash it's hair.

If all else fails, maybe it's time for DH to get those clippers out again? :)

[wattle]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggh DH's clippers, I think that's what started all this behaviour in the first place.

Poor little darling he must have been traumatised.

(For anyone who missed out on our 'hair history', DH decided to give DS a No.1 haircut at around 8 months. I think a blind person with no hands could have done a better job:cool: , and poor DS was obviously emotionally scarred for life.)

[draught]

Wattle - we have been through this too - DD1 screams every Thursday night like someone is murdering her - and that is just when we tell her that we are about to wash her hair (Thursday is swimming lessons day so it is our hair wash day as a bare minimum). I have not found a way around it - now she screams, we wash, we stop, she stops and returns to normal. Luckily her sister just looks at her like she is a freak and hasn't adopted the same behaviour. Sorry I can't help other than to empathise!