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From: debsews
Date: 10-15-2005, 05:25 PM (1 of 16)
| Just had a call from my daughter who lives in Ohio. She said that my 8 yr old gd had decided she didn't like her bushy eyebrows and had taken a pair of scissors to them. When that didn't get the desired result she used a razor to finish them. So NO eyebrows for the 8 yr old who now is in tears and sobbing to me that it didn't work. I just don't know what to say. I tried to tell her that she's beautiful but it seems that another little girl has had her eyebrows waxed and Parker was trying to achieve that look on her own. Her mother was a beautician before she became a nurse but it didn't occur to her to ask for help. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! You gotta love kids and the things they do. |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: DragonLady
Date: 10-15-2005, 06:10 PM (2 of 16)
Ahhh...yes. That first do-it-yourself haircut.      Can Mom help her draw them back on with an eye pencil until they regrow? "No more twist! No more twist!"
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User: DragonLady
Member since: 11-10-2004 Total posts: 152 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-15-2005, 10:12 PM (3 of 16)
My sister cut her own hair, my brothers and the dogs, before she was caught....it was a lovely moment...(it was just 2 days after she tried to put my brother and the dog in the dryer....yep...she was and is an ornery kid...) 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: beachgirl
Date: 10-15-2005, 11:03 PM (4 of 16)
| My mom put my long hair up in pigtails when I was little to keep my hair neat. I knew that one of my Gm didn't like my hair fixed that way. One day I was out in the yard & saw them drive up. I ran into the house & got my Mom's sewing scissors & cut the pigtail off up close to where they were braided. What a messy hairdo that was then. Mom cried & had a devil of a time trying to make it look decent until it grew out some. I was about 4 yrs old. Thank heavens I wasn't in school yet. |
User: beachgirl
Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-16-2005, 12:10 AM (5 of 16)
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I never cut my hair....but my mother said when I was about 2, I went out naked, walking all over the neighborhood introducing myself to the neighbors. (if only I could do that now... )
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: bridesmom
Date: 10-16-2005, 05:07 AM (6 of 16)
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Chrys, you can do anything you want to!!! Course, you'd better make sure someone has some bail money ready . I remember my son at the age of 2 shaving his arm with my razor cause he didn't like having hairy arms. I tried explaining to him that when he grew up he'd be happy with hairy arms, that girls liked it. Now he's 26 and I bet he doesn't remember that at all. I did know someone who had a child that decided to give the cat a hair cut which after seeing the pictures was quite hilarious. Got to just love those kids! But now that I think of it, whyis an 8 year old getting her eyebrows waxed, is that not a little young?? Is it just me or do kids not get to be kids anymore? I think its sad that these young girls are so into how they look at that age, and don't get me started on the clothing that they wear! Enough soapboxing for me. Laura
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User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: debsews
Date: 10-16-2005, 08:39 AM (7 of 16)
| You're right about the waxing. This little girl has a stage mom and is way beyond her years. Of course Parker is trying to look like everyone else in the way that little girls do. I have tried to explain to her that if we all looked alike it would be very boring but she's 8 so she doesn't really get it yet. Julie tried to draw them on last night and it still looks awful but it's a great little life lesson that she'll live through. My daughter has given her the cover story that she fell asleep in the yard and caterpillars ate them off. Hmmm don't think anyone will buy that one! Hopefully this will make a lasting impression of what not to do to fit in. I also shaved my arms at the age of about 9 and had to wear long sleeves when it started growing in. |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 10-16-2005, 09:23 AM (8 of 16)
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My YS used toenail clippers to cut his hair. He at the time wanted his head shaved like his friends dad shaved his head. Yes we had to shave his head it was a mess. The next day his friends mother said to me oh Jon got lice too? Needless to say I wasn't a happy camper knowing their family had lice and didn't tell any of their friends.
Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 10-16-2005, 09:31 PM (9 of 16)
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Thank goodness neither of my girls cut their own hair. Crys~you went out streeking! That is funny. Bet Mom was having fits! This say and age that would be pretty normal! Sorry about the eyebrows~I think a brow pencil will help with that until they come in. mgf~
Blessings & Smiles
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User: MyGirlFriday
Member since: 12-05-2004 Total posts: 288 
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From: MaryW
Date: 11-01-2005, 09:00 AM (10 of 16)
My oldest daughter took all her clothes off one day out on the sidewalk. She was about three. Then she jumped on her tricycle and went up and down the street.  Those were the days.There is a boy on our street who is about eight or nine. Very small but he has his hair dyed. Go figure that one.
MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: mommydionne
Date: 11-02-2005, 06:03 PM (11 of 16)
dying the hair is all the rage, when my son was in kindergarten (he's in grade 3 now) he had his hair dyed blue, permenant dye, his father took him 
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: beachgirl
Date: 11-02-2005, 09:28 PM (12 of 16)
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Dyeing hair is all the rage ? Great, I'm in style then. LOL. But then, do Grandma's count ? No offence there, I'm just acting silly again.
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User: beachgirl
Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615
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From: MaryW
Date: 11-03-2005, 10:21 AM (13 of 16)
I got foils a few weeks back. I like them. Nothing too "out there", it was just time for something new. 
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: bridesmom
Date: 11-04-2005, 07:06 AM (14 of 16)
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My son's old roommate, as a teen, decided to dye his very dark brown hair (he's 1/4 Native American), so he bleached it with Javex ,then used grape koolaid to color it . It was like that for quite a long time, until his mom got so fed up, she made him get it cut! His hair was like purple straw!!
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: opalstudio
Date: 11-05-2005, 10:48 PM (15 of 16)
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heehee...cute stories! I think everybody has heard that when an eyelash falls out, you make a wish and blow it away? Well, upon hearing this my lovely then 6year old daughter began making wish after wish after wish. There was nothing we could do to convince her that yanking out her eyebrows one-by-one and making wishes on them just wouldn't make the wishes come true. By the time she quit she really had no choice, as she had pulled every single hair out of her right eyebrow! She looked mighty odd for a few weeks until the hairs grew back in. Now when she sees pix of her with no eyebrow and no teeth she just laughs. Kids, eh? Jo-Anne
sewing is good for you! Studio Opal, Centre for the Sewing Arts |
User: opalstudio
Member since: 11-03-2005 Total posts: 17 
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-05-2005, 11:49 PM (16 of 16)
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You know when it happens you get a little upset, but later on you sit back and laugh. I like reading about all the different things other children have done. It makes me smile and remember all the things my kids did and some of the things I did.
Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
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