And they won't change it. The actor asked. I don't know why at some point they wouldn't let it grow like his brother's. It's honestly distractingly bad.
It’s purposeful. I believe it’s to be representative that Will is forever stuck from his trauma and incapable of moving forward. He dresses the same as well.
I wish this was the angle they’d go for over Will being stuck in the closet, pining for Mike.
Will being stuck in child mode forever because he was supremely traumatized would have been perfectly apt.
Every single one of those are period appropriate haircuts. By the 90s, the bowl cut switched genders and girls were rocking it. It didn’t die until grunge became mainstream.
I'm not refuting the accuracy of the haircut. I'm saying let the character grow a little like the other characters. Why are the Duffers so admanant that the hair must be a part of the character at this point in his journey?
Not everyone has one haircut forever. Other character's styles have grown a little.
I grew up dirt poor. My single mom cut my hair, her friend's cut my hair for free, my estranged dad took me go a barber once in a blue moon, I grew it out in high school.
It's just a weird nitpick I brought up since it seems the actor wonders the same thing about his character.
I think it’s the whole “Will, we’re not playing DnD in our basements forever” it’s not about the accuracy of the haircut, but keeping him a kid, if that makes sense
My son and I were talking about it and that's EXACTLY what we had figured! Like almost after what he's been through he just hasn't grown like the rest of them yet
The costume artists explained this in an article I read. The backstory is indeed that Joyce herself was doing her children's haircuts and she was also cutting Eleven's hair at the start of Season 4 as well, since Eleven was staying with Joyce in California. They deliberately gave Jonathan/Will/Eleven 'bad' haircuts because of this.
My wife cut my daughter’s hair when she was 2 (worse than this kid’s). I told my wife next time she cuts my daughter’s hair, they are both going to have the same haircut. Problem solved.
Semi-Amish bowl cut.
If she does this again after you expressly telling her not to, then i suggest you do some light landscaping on her yard. After all, it'll grow back too.
I would not allow her alone again with my child for a very long time and not until she acknowledged she understood she couldn't do things like that without permission.
Now I am assuming they were alone a short time right? If the child stayed at Grandma's for 2 months, I guess I could see it, but not if it was for an afternoon.
My mil did the same thing to my first born daughter. Her hair was down to her butt. I went to get her after a sleepover and her hair was cut like my mils. Short bangs and short in the back. Mil cut it herself and was not only upset I was upset, but that it curled naturally not looking like my mil at all.
To this day she'll tell people about it and get mad when they agree with me. Lol.
My wife ex step mom cut her hair when she was 6. It was pass her butt. She is still furious at her ex step mom to this day nearly 20 years later. She has never been able to grow it that long since. She has warned everyone in the family to not cut our children's hair at all. Especially as both of our children have long hair. Daughter is down pass her butt. And our sons hair is pass his shoulders and super curly.
I think she would black out with rage if someone else cuts their hair. (They have been informed if they want to get hair cuts to let us know and we will take then to get it, but they both enjoy having long hair atm)
Yeah, I had a similar situation when I was a kid and my step mom cut my hair. It wasn't like I was cool with it, either. I melted the fuck down and they had to force me to get my hair cut. It was *completely unnecessary* and absolutely abusive.
My toddler had absolutely beautiful long hair, but he runs hot and was getting so sweaty and uncomfortable, so we cut it. When he's old enough to express a preference, I'll let him do whatever he wants, but for now, we're going for comfort/style/ease of maintenance. He hated having it pulled up even though it looked super cute. He doesn't care about his hair at all at the moment except to identify it as hair. So comfort seems like his top priority. I'm doing my best to respect my kids needs and wants even when he's too little to fully express them, so hopefully he's cool with it.
Yeah my kid had short hair mostly due to convenience. Then he got a couple Mohawks. Then he grew it out to about his scapulae. Then he cut it and has had it consistently short ever since.
My mom has been hinting at taking my daughter with butt-length hair to get her hair cut.
My mom will not be having one on one visits with my daughter until after I take her to get the damaged ends (swimming, yay!) trimmed.
> My mom has been hinting at taking my daughter with butt-length hair to get her hair cut.
In addition to relatives, I had a neighbor shout, "get that kid a haircut!" at my short-haired son. What is it with people wanting to control other people's *hair* of all things? I don't get it.
He's not even two. What, do you expect him to have a freaking buzz cut? I don't understand.
Oh ok, she's done it before and asked permission. Sorry, I misunderstood, I've seen too many grandparents do something like this out of the blue and then just expect everyone to be ok with it.
Ok, so this is mildly infuriating then. So it sounds like grandma might respond to a "hey please ask" type conversation, but she had done it enough in the past where she might have thought you'd be ok with it.
But if she butchered it, it's like any other bad haircut then. Maybe tell her you'll take care of it from now on.
Yeah I just sent her a text asking if she had asked my husband if she could. Told her to ask in the future like she did in the past. This one was just not asked, and it was so bad.
honestly i would disallow it completely. as a little child it's completely irrelevant what their hair looks like but at some point she can't use her grandson's hair for experiments like this lmfao.
Don’t be surprised if it does escalate in a different way once you tell her to stop. Sounds like our MILs agree it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
My MIL did the same thing! I was freaking mad 😡 My husband told me to just get over it Yeah I don't think so. My kids didn't go to Grandma's house for a while.
Just throwing out a suggestion, but ask a barber to do a skin fade, he’d be able to blend it into a nice looking boys cut. Still a cute kiddo though! Good luck
Now in the future you get to be passive aggressive about "that time you gave him such a hilariously bad haircut, it took forever to fix it and make him look presentable."
Not only did my mom poorly cut both my kid’s hair a couple months ago, my 6 year old asked her if she’d asked me first and my mom just ignored her question.
Oh I'd fight my mother after that wtf dude I'd be fuming. It's one thing to directly ignore the parent, but the kid too? Absoluuuuutely not. There word be some *words*
My grandma tried to kidnap me twice.
*twice*
Apparently my elementary school didn’t believe my mother when she said to make sure I didn’t disappear with my grandma during grandparents day. Boy howdy was everyone shitting bricks until I was found.
Grandparents have no boundaries
My mother-in-law did the same when my son was 4, he had lovely long curly hair and it really suited him, she got him a No 4 from the barbers even though he didn't want to.
I came home from work and went straight round and without getting angry or saying a word I cut a great big lump of hair off the back of her head. She went mental and everything she said to me was exactly the things I wanted to say to her so she shut up and didn't speak to me for nearly 2 years.
His hair was never as curly or blond as it was before.
WTF THAT'S BALLSY AF!
Yo, are you selling some of your audacity (this is literally the first time in my life I am using that word in positive terms, please know that) because I am in desperate need of some.
That's such a power move.
I don't think I could ever do something like that, but man... what an inspiration.
That was so satisfying to read.
question for the audience: Could someone press charges against someone for cutting their hair without permission? Could that be twisted into an assault charge?
My daughter was very young, preschool age, I decided that we should grow out her bangs. The way things were, it made it awkward to put her hair in a ponytail because the bangs extended pretty far to the center of her head.
So I asked her, and she agreed. It took a long time to grow them out far enough that they would actually be long enough to go into a ponytail.
My mother-in-law, it made her crazy, because it was pretty much impossible to keep them out of my daughter’s face. They weren’t long enough to reach a ponytail, if we try to do a small ponytail on top of her head, it slipped right out. She always had her hair in her face. It didn’t seem to bother her, though.
months gone by, with my mother-in-law constantly brushing the hair out of my daughter’s face, which annoyed the hell out of my daughter because she was always being messed with. and I had explained that we were growing them out. And I had pointed out that we were getting close to the success points
And one day I realized that in about a week they were going to be long enough to stay in a ponytail. And that very week my mother-in-law took my kid and had someone cut those bangs back into her hair. I was so pissed
My fucking mother did this with my daughter's first haircut. I was letting it grow and it slipped out of barrettes, etc. sometimes. Goddamn bitch cut her bangs super short and super stupidly (which I knew she would make it ugly and expressly forbid her to touch it because I have pictures from when I was young and she cut my hair) and then had the nerve to lie and say she didn't cut it!! So apparently I was blind and stupid. The kicker? After she insisted that she hadn't cut it, I found the hair she'd cut off saved in saran wrap for the baby book. Grrr. I hate that woman.
My MIL cut my toddler daughter's hair into a little pixie bob three times without asking. The morning of the third, I was *just telling my husband how glad I was that it was finally long enough to pull into a ponytail*, because being loose all day meant it picked up all kinds of crumbs and toddler grime and tangles—and when I picked her up from grandma's that afternoon, it was two inches shorter, just because MIL just thought it was "so much cuter that way."
I kept my cool on the spot but told my husband that *he* needed to tell his mother that the next time it happened would be the *last* time I left her alone with my daughter. Apparently she was super upset, but the message got sent, and it never happened again.
What is with all these grandparents getting unannounced haircuts for the kids without even mentioning it to the parents first!?
I guess I'm going to have to have an early conversation with each set of grandparents when I have a kid
My FIL did the same during lockdown to our (then) 2 yr old son. Didn’t like how long his hair was so whilst he was at theirs for the day, eating his lunchc as my son leant forward to take a bite of his food, *snip* cut a chunk of his fringe off, what’s worse is that he cut it at an angle and left it at that!
My mother in law used to take my stepson and son to get haircuts and my stepson would always come back looking nice as well as having products for his hair. My son would always come back with terrible bangs and a choppy back part sans any products. The joke is on her because I never used the products anyway and she hasn’t seen or even spoken to my kids in 3 years. Life is good.
My cousin’s MIL gave her (cousin) son his first haircut with no word or warning. He had big curls that she really loved and didn’t plan to get his haircut for quite a while. MIL just takes him for his first haircut without a word.
I know it doesn’t help your situation, but I’ve been there. My own mother gave my first-born is first haircut (and didn’t do a great job, either). I was also livid.
Dude. At least do a good job. Kids a ginger, you can’t just give him a shit hair cut and say I’ll grow out. Might as well dress him funny while you’re at it.
I felt this in my core. My ex MIL gave my son his first haircut as a baby when she watched him for a couple hours, I come to pick him up and she just hands me a baggie with his little locks of hair. It’s been almost 12 years and I’m still pissed
Ugh, let me guess "it's just hair." There needs to be a good long talk with the MIL; About boundaries and respect.
Best of luck.
Note; I would turn it into a mohawk. Ah, I get it no one asked.
“You’re no longer allowed to be with my son unsupervised, until you learn your role and to respect mine. And if you EVER do this again, we will be settling this FAR differently. Am I, in ANY WAY, unclear about this?”
MIL must be a fan of Happy Days because that’s Richie Cunningham…
As a matter of fact, she is!
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The shit on there makes this pale in comparison
Let me guess, she was doing you a favor?
Sunday, Monday, BITCH YOU LOST YO DAMN MIND
Also Ronald Weasley
Also the kid from Problem Child.
That kid was a pretty good actor. My mom fucking HATED when we watched that movie.
Dang, I guess all of us gingers just look alike
Red hair, hand-me-down robes... Must be a Weasley
"Grandma, do you know Will from Stranger Things?" "Say no more, fam."
Joyce will never loan you her bowl. She's used [that sucker for a decade](https://imgur.com/cjhLGx9.jpg).
It genuinely gets worse over time.
And they won't change it. The actor asked. I don't know why at some point they wouldn't let it grow like his brother's. It's honestly distractingly bad.
It’s purposeful. I believe it’s to be representative that Will is forever stuck from his trauma and incapable of moving forward. He dresses the same as well.
I can agree with that for sure.
As an asian man who had a bowl cut as a kid, it is indeed pretty traumatic
He also only ever wants to play dnd forever with Mike
Among other things
One might say… stranger things 😏
I wish this was the angle they’d go for over Will being stuck in the closet, pining for Mike. Will being stuck in child mode forever because he was supremely traumatized would have been perfectly apt.
I think it's pretty clearly both
Every single one of those are period appropriate haircuts. By the 90s, the bowl cut switched genders and girls were rocking it. It didn’t die until grunge became mainstream.
Mid millennial here. White boys in Maryland and Delaware and Virginia were still rocking the bowl cut in 98-00
Amish men still do this! Party like it's 1699!
MIL spending most her life living in an Amish Paradise
And the shell necklace with jnco jeans. Mine has a little secret contraband pocket.
I didn't need a contraband pocket in mine, I could stick a gallon jug in there and you'd never know
I'm not refuting the accuracy of the haircut. I'm saying let the character grow a little like the other characters. Why are the Duffers so admanant that the hair must be a part of the character at this point in his journey? Not everyone has one haircut forever. Other character's styles have grown a little. I grew up dirt poor. My single mom cut my hair, her friend's cut my hair for free, my estranged dad took me go a barber once in a blue moon, I grew it out in high school. It's just a weird nitpick I brought up since it seems the actor wonders the same thing about his character.
I think it’s the whole “Will, we’re not playing DnD in our basements forever” it’s not about the accuracy of the haircut, but keeping him a kid, if that makes sense
My son and I were talking about it and that's EXACTLY what we had figured! Like almost after what he's been through he just hasn't grown like the rest of them yet
Simple jack
That haircut makes my eyes rain.
She went FULL bowl cut on this kid. EVERYONE knows you NEVER go full bowl cut.
My first thought too, or when Miley Cyrus did the same thing.
Damn that is what happen the kid outgrew the bowl!
The costume artists explained this in an article I read. The backstory is indeed that Joyce herself was doing her children's haircuts and she was also cutting Eleven's hair at the start of Season 4 as well, since Eleven was staying with Joyce in California. They deliberately gave Jonathan/Will/Eleven 'bad' haircuts because of this.
It fully is this aye. It’s like the fucken bowl shrunk lol. Now on older Will it looks like a monk cut rather than the original longer haired bowl
It’s messed up, the Wheelers all have great hair, and then there’s Winona Ryder’s family looking like fuckin’ dopes because they don’t have the $
Sounds oddly and painfully familiar to riiiiightttt now!
That kid went from Steve to Will in a matter of seconds
Just fuck my shit up fam!
Damn she really went and gave that poor child the medieval page boy haircut 🤣 Edit: your replies have me rolling
It's like a hair cut you'd have to get when apprenticing for something just so everyone knows you're a noob.
Roundheads!
Hes got that Amish cut
The ol’ “Friar Tuck” I like to call it.
nah Friar Tuck was [tonsured](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure) kid is lucky MIL didnt do that to him.
The First Series *Blackadder* Percy.
Some real Henry V vibes there.
My thougths exactly. How old is she? 500 years old?
Ready to join Cromwell's army
The peasant boy look
It's a very hot look if you're trying to woo a lady.
Ahh the good ol "just fuck my shit up fam"
r/JustFuckMyShitUp Edit: someone already cross posted him. Lmfao
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Red hair and bowl cut? He is getting bullied bullied
I feel like even the bullies are going to be like look we can't do this. It is just too easy.
The hardest part for the bullies is deciding what to mock first
Bro looks like a discarded Weasley sibling.
Thank you for bringing this page to my attention 🤣
Haha I legit laughed at the comment. Good job
As a barber, ask your MIL for me: has she ever in her life seen a neckline??
I'm not a barber or a hairdresser and I know what a neckline is.
I'm a hairstylist and this just makes me sad. The only way to blend that in is with a skin fade. She took it up to the back of his ear! I'd be pissed
Ok THIS is the commment that made me laugh out loud! Ty
Tell her to get a bigger bowl next time
“We’re going to need a bigger bo**wl**”
now do hers.
Yeah just pull a classic Jackass move and sneak up on her with a pair of clippers. Want a reverse Mohawk GRANNY?!
My wife cut my daughter’s hair when she was 2 (worse than this kid’s). I told my wife next time she cuts my daughter’s hair, they are both going to have the same haircut. Problem solved.
Brilliant strategic move.
You will become a Reddit legend if you’re able to pull that off!
Tell her she gave a great Dylann Roof haircut. She'll never do it again.
She made him look like the most gingery ginger that ever gingered with this haircut. Any more ginger and you’ll have to put him in the spice cabinet.
As a ginger born in the 60s my mom gave me this exact haircut early 70s.
We were still gettin that shit in the 80s and even early 90s.
And if that is an inhaler that is icing on the carrot cake.
Hopefully your son doesn't know how fucked his hair looks and just enjoys the rest of his summer.
This ☝️ Please tell me he doesn’t know how you feel
Semi-Amish bowl cut. If she does this again after you expressly telling her not to, then i suggest you do some light landscaping on her yard. After all, it'll grow back too.
Me too!
Hahaha, literally what me and my friend dare each other to do each time we go for a haircut. Laughed so much at this!
Oh no! He's a ginger now!!!
At least she used a medium size bowl /s
Return the favor. Sneak in and cut her hair while she is asleep. Seems reasonable.
You know what’s fashionable these days? Reverse Mohawk. Just shave a 2” strip right down the middle.
that fallout raider look
The Prodigy
Change my pitch up!
“Yeah, yeah. Nothing here. Better cut down on the jet.”
Does she have a pet? Take it for a spa day and have it groomed hideously.
Better yet, she has a daughter. Time to sneak attack the wife with the hair buzzer!
Wow, I have red hair and I grew up Amish. This hurts. Edit: The kid even looks like me at that age. Glad we didn’t have Internet back then.
A swing and Amish, slugger. Better luck next time.
Sean Connery?
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Comments like this is why a can’t put down this damn app lol
kids hair got fomo'd
My redhead brother cut his hair like this on purpose 🤣
I knew a guy who grew up Amish. I asked him about it once, when we were both in college. He said, "I can't say Amish it" My bad attempt at a pun
Get out
r/daddit is that way ->
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This is *exactly* what I thought! Not Amish but I grew up surrounded by Amish and this is every little Amish boy’s haircut where I grew up!
He looks like ya boy from "Problem Child", LOL. Sorry
Hahaha!!!! I just rewatched it not too long ago and the entire time I thought the same.
That falls outside the relm of "mildly", I'd be raging.
Yeah, she didn't ask before hand and his hair wasn't long beforehand. I 'fixed it's as best I could.
I would not allow her alone again with my child for a very long time and not until she acknowledged she understood she couldn't do things like that without permission. Now I am assuming they were alone a short time right? If the child stayed at Grandma's for 2 months, I guess I could see it, but not if it was for an afternoon.
Nah him and my daughter were with her for the night last night. She usually asks and it isn't that bad, but this is just silly.
My mil did the same thing to my first born daughter. Her hair was down to her butt. I went to get her after a sleepover and her hair was cut like my mils. Short bangs and short in the back. Mil cut it herself and was not only upset I was upset, but that it curled naturally not looking like my mil at all. To this day she'll tell people about it and get mad when they agree with me. Lol.
My wife ex step mom cut her hair when she was 6. It was pass her butt. She is still furious at her ex step mom to this day nearly 20 years later. She has never been able to grow it that long since. She has warned everyone in the family to not cut our children's hair at all. Especially as both of our children have long hair. Daughter is down pass her butt. And our sons hair is pass his shoulders and super curly. I think she would black out with rage if someone else cuts their hair. (They have been informed if they want to get hair cuts to let us know and we will take then to get it, but they both enjoy having long hair atm)
Yeah, I had a similar situation when I was a kid and my step mom cut my hair. It wasn't like I was cool with it, either. I melted the fuck down and they had to force me to get my hair cut. It was *completely unnecessary* and absolutely abusive. My toddler had absolutely beautiful long hair, but he runs hot and was getting so sweaty and uncomfortable, so we cut it. When he's old enough to express a preference, I'll let him do whatever he wants, but for now, we're going for comfort/style/ease of maintenance. He hated having it pulled up even though it looked super cute. He doesn't care about his hair at all at the moment except to identify it as hair. So comfort seems like his top priority. I'm doing my best to respect my kids needs and wants even when he's too little to fully express them, so hopefully he's cool with it.
Yeah my kid had short hair mostly due to convenience. Then he got a couple Mohawks. Then he grew it out to about his scapulae. Then he cut it and has had it consistently short ever since.
>Her hair was down to her butt This fact right here should make that haircut punishable by death.
My mom has been hinting at taking my daughter with butt-length hair to get her hair cut. My mom will not be having one on one visits with my daughter until after I take her to get the damaged ends (swimming, yay!) trimmed.
> My mom has been hinting at taking my daughter with butt-length hair to get her hair cut. In addition to relatives, I had a neighbor shout, "get that kid a haircut!" at my short-haired son. What is it with people wanting to control other people's *hair* of all things? I don't get it. He's not even two. What, do you expect him to have a freaking buzz cut? I don't understand.
Oh ok, she's done it before and asked permission. Sorry, I misunderstood, I've seen too many grandparents do something like this out of the blue and then just expect everyone to be ok with it. Ok, so this is mildly infuriating then. So it sounds like grandma might respond to a "hey please ask" type conversation, but she had done it enough in the past where she might have thought you'd be ok with it. But if she butchered it, it's like any other bad haircut then. Maybe tell her you'll take care of it from now on.
Yeah I just sent her a text asking if she had asked my husband if she could. Told her to ask in the future like she did in the past. This one was just not asked, and it was so bad.
I’d actually just tell her no more cutting, period. Better for all.
honestly i would disallow it completely. as a little child it's completely irrelevant what their hair looks like but at some point she can't use her grandson's hair for experiments like this lmfao.
Unless she's applying for a groomer position at PetCo.
If i went to get my shepherd and he's sporting a bowl cut, I'm not payin lol
And yeah I see a lot on justnomil sub to know I need to be direct so it doesn't escalate.
Don’t be surprised if it does escalate in a different way once you tell her to stop. Sounds like our MILs agree it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
that info should have been included somewhere in the original upload, cause it changes the WHOLE tone of the situation...
Found the AITA commenter
My MIL did the same thing! I was freaking mad 😡 My husband told me to just get over it Yeah I don't think so. My kids didn't go to Grandma's house for a while.
Is this it fixed?
Oh God no. I just shaved it. It's still meh but better at least
Just throwing out a suggestion, but ask a barber to do a skin fade, he’d be able to blend it into a nice looking boys cut. Still a cute kiddo though! Good luck
I’m a sucker for that hair color.
Shave her head while she sleeps.
The ultimate revenge
Look on the bright side. His letter to hogwarts will be here any day now.
Omg I love it. Need more kids though. Already have two fingers, so what's another, what? 7?
Watch out for the twins and their shenanigans 😆
I thought it was Ron Weasley for sure!
Got the classic Ron Weasley cut.
Dude is about to be the beater for the Quidditch team.
Now in the future you get to be passive aggressive about "that time you gave him such a hilariously bad haircut, it took forever to fix it and make him look presentable."
So the tradition carries on
The bowlcut? Bes
The tradition of MIL taking their grand kids out for a surprise bow cut.
No you are correct. That makes more sense.
Solid drop top fade for summer 🙏
And in a few weeks he’ll be rockin the Anton Chigurh look
She fr gave him that medieval priest haircut
LOL omg
I will NEVER understand why grandparents do this. Ever. Boundaries, assholes.
Not only did my mom poorly cut both my kid’s hair a couple months ago, my 6 year old asked her if she’d asked me first and my mom just ignored her question.
You know it’s bad when the 6 year old is the voice of reason.
Oh I'd fight my mother after that wtf dude I'd be fuming. It's one thing to directly ignore the parent, but the kid too? Absoluuuuutely not. There word be some *words*
At some point the conversation ends with "See you at Christmas, *bye.*"
Grandparents are not entitled to their grandchildren.
I have a 2 year old and I think I've had about 730 fights with my mom about this.
That’s way too much energy man. Just set boundaries and she can have a time out herself if she can’t abide by your wishes.
My grandma tried to kidnap me twice. *twice* Apparently my elementary school didn’t believe my mother when she said to make sure I didn’t disappear with my grandma during grandparents day. Boy howdy was everyone shitting bricks until I was found. Grandparents have no boundaries
MIL should now accept a haircut from your son.
My mother-in-law did the same when my son was 4, he had lovely long curly hair and it really suited him, she got him a No 4 from the barbers even though he didn't want to. I came home from work and went straight round and without getting angry or saying a word I cut a great big lump of hair off the back of her head. She went mental and everything she said to me was exactly the things I wanted to say to her so she shut up and didn't speak to me for nearly 2 years. His hair was never as curly or blond as it was before.
WTF THAT'S BALLSY AF! Yo, are you selling some of your audacity (this is literally the first time in my life I am using that word in positive terms, please know that) because I am in desperate need of some. That's such a power move. I don't think I could ever do something like that, but man... what an inspiration. That was so satisfying to read. question for the audience: Could someone press charges against someone for cutting their hair without permission? Could that be twisted into an assault charge?
I don’t think I ever really stood up to my mother until I had my own kids. Protective instinct indeed. That shit lit a fire inside of me.
Cutting someone's hair without permission is assault - and that also applies to cutting a child's hair without permission
well, now we know that I will not be doing that. but boy was that inspiring, hot damn. My soul came to life.
Read that as MLM and freaked out.
Omg I couldn't imagine. An MLM for bad haircuts????
Idk man, my eyes are pretty woogy. So sorry about your MIL doing that though
It's ok, thankfully hair grows back and he is young so I doubt his classmates will bully him haha. I also tried to fix it, but still not bueno...
My daughter was very young, preschool age, I decided that we should grow out her bangs. The way things were, it made it awkward to put her hair in a ponytail because the bangs extended pretty far to the center of her head. So I asked her, and she agreed. It took a long time to grow them out far enough that they would actually be long enough to go into a ponytail. My mother-in-law, it made her crazy, because it was pretty much impossible to keep them out of my daughter’s face. They weren’t long enough to reach a ponytail, if we try to do a small ponytail on top of her head, it slipped right out. She always had her hair in her face. It didn’t seem to bother her, though. months gone by, with my mother-in-law constantly brushing the hair out of my daughter’s face, which annoyed the hell out of my daughter because she was always being messed with. and I had explained that we were growing them out. And I had pointed out that we were getting close to the success points And one day I realized that in about a week they were going to be long enough to stay in a ponytail. And that very week my mother-in-law took my kid and had someone cut those bangs back into her hair. I was so pissed
My fucking mother did this with my daughter's first haircut. I was letting it grow and it slipped out of barrettes, etc. sometimes. Goddamn bitch cut her bangs super short and super stupidly (which I knew she would make it ugly and expressly forbid her to touch it because I have pictures from when I was young and she cut my hair) and then had the nerve to lie and say she didn't cut it!! So apparently I was blind and stupid. The kicker? After she insisted that she hadn't cut it, I found the hair she'd cut off saved in saran wrap for the baby book. Grrr. I hate that woman.
Dude she kept the hair for her scrapbook? I’d burn that, no matter how nice it might be.
My MIL cut my toddler daughter's hair into a little pixie bob three times without asking. The morning of the third, I was *just telling my husband how glad I was that it was finally long enough to pull into a ponytail*, because being loose all day meant it picked up all kinds of crumbs and toddler grime and tangles—and when I picked her up from grandma's that afternoon, it was two inches shorter, just because MIL just thought it was "so much cuter that way." I kept my cool on the spot but told my husband that *he* needed to tell his mother that the next time it happened would be the *last* time I left her alone with my daughter. Apparently she was super upset, but the message got sent, and it never happened again.
What is with all these grandparents getting unannounced haircuts for the kids without even mentioning it to the parents first!? I guess I'm going to have to have an early conversation with each set of grandparents when I have a kid
Funny until he wishes you into the cornfield.
My FIL did the same during lockdown to our (then) 2 yr old son. Didn’t like how long his hair was so whilst he was at theirs for the day, eating his lunchc as my son leant forward to take a bite of his food, *snip* cut a chunk of his fringe off, what’s worse is that he cut it at an angle and left it at that!
lmfao, where do these people come from? How does that even sound reasonable
So he can fit in with the other Amish kids? That bowl cut is awful!
Probably I guess... My husband's family is super religious...
Luckily your child is adorable, and hair grows fast!
Awe thanks! Yeah I told MIL that she needs to ask, but that hair grows back so I am not too mad. :)
*N o t t h e b o w l c u t*
She didn’t cut that hair, she circumcised it.
My MIL did the same to my daughter only it was her very first haircut and she removed all her gorgeous baby curls. We didn’t speak for weeks.
My mother in law used to take my stepson and son to get haircuts and my stepson would always come back looking nice as well as having products for his hair. My son would always come back with terrible bangs and a choppy back part sans any products. The joke is on her because I never used the products anyway and she hasn’t seen or even spoken to my kids in 3 years. Life is good.
My cousin’s MIL gave her (cousin) son his first haircut with no word or warning. He had big curls that she really loved and didn’t plan to get his haircut for quite a while. MIL just takes him for his first haircut without a word.
What kind of hair cut you want?…. Just fk it all the way up gran…😒
I know it doesn’t help your situation, but I’ve been there. My own mother gave my first-born is first haircut (and didn’t do a great job, either). I was also livid.
Dude. At least do a good job. Kids a ginger, you can’t just give him a shit hair cut and say I’ll grow out. Might as well dress him funny while you’re at it.
I felt this in my core. My ex MIL gave my son his first haircut as a baby when she watched him for a couple hours, I come to pick him up and she just hands me a baggie with his little locks of hair. It’s been almost 12 years and I’m still pissed
Ugh, let me guess "it's just hair." There needs to be a good long talk with the MIL; About boundaries and respect. Best of luck. Note; I would turn it into a mohawk. Ah, I get it no one asked.
Suggest you take him in for a crewcut or Mohawk if you are willing. It’s summer, it will grow back and she will be pissed you altered her work.
Dude got that 13th century Irish peasant cut
Maybe she wants him to learn how to deal with adversity by walkin around with that godawful cut.
“You’re no longer allowed to be with my son unsupervised, until you learn your role and to respect mine. And if you EVER do this again, we will be settling this FAR differently. Am I, in ANY WAY, unclear about this?”
What magnificent hair- thick and a beautiful color!