I received a haircut/clipper package from my parents for Christmas, and it was kind of a joke gift, because my brother and I used to loathe my Dad clipping our hair (he’s a retired Army general) when we were growing up in the 1970’s.
But you know what? I thought “Damn, why pay good money for something I can do myself?”, so I broke it out today and buzzed my boy’s hair for the coming warm weather.
My question is…how’d I do? It’s my first time ever cutting hair on anyone, and I figured if there’s any time I can get away with it before these guys resent me doing it, its now…so I did.
You judge:
I emailed the pic to my Dad and his reply was “Did you use the rice bowl?”
To which I replied “Yeah Dad, in that last box of knicknacks you and Mom pawned off on me, she included it, so I used it just like you used to”…
ETA: They are 8 and 4…and the youngest knocked out his front tooth in a bizarre gardening accident…
While I cannot disagree with your sentiment, take a peek at that wicker etagere over their left shoulders…used to house nice framed pics of family, family knicknacks, assorted delicates…NO MORE!
IT’S ALL TOYS NOW!!! GAH!!!
We’ve bought bins, used up extra storage space, etc…yet the toys still persist. Its like they are Tribbles or something…increasingly encroaching on us, until…HEY, that’s my bed!!!
So, thank you. I love them very much. I wonder if me putting their images on teh intertubz is making people think “Don’t you know Cesario is on this board? What’s wrong with you, man!?!?!?!”
Cute! Looks fine to me, I’ve been doing my son’s hair since his first*, but lately he’s been asking my friend to do it so sometimes she does it instead. She’s a hairdresser so it tends to look a smidge neater but my cuts are serviceable.
*I finally stopped wincing at the sight of his curls on the bathroom floor… he has such amazing cute curls, if he was a girl I’d never cut his hair lol.
They look great. My nephew asked me to buzz his hair last year - I keep mine very short (1/16") but had no experience actually cutting anybody else’s. I just snapped a 1/2" guide in and went at it. Pretty tough to do anything wrong, really. You might have a tiny bit of “detail work” cleaning up around ears or back of the neck but little kids just don’t have the facial hair to worry about.
My biggest issue, especially with the 4-year old, was “itchiness”, and how long they can tolerate it without wiggling so much I could no longer cut their hair evenly.
I must admit the hair clipper set I got from the Parental Units was first rate, except for the apron.
I need to get one that isnt a modified garbage bag with an extra twistie-tie!
Pick a nice warm day, sit 'em out on the porch in nothing but a pair of shorts. Brush any stray hair of the kids with a towel or a soft brush and either the birds will take the clippings or 30 seconds with a broom gets it off your porch.
I’ve cut all my kids (5) hair for years. Tell them they get a treat when they’re done. It’s simpler to just do it myself than drag them all to a hair place.
My mom used to cut our hair when I was a kid. I was teased about it relentlessly at school, and I swore I would NEVER do that to my kid.
Of course, when he took German 1 in high school, I told him that the German word for “hammer” was “knockemschtiff”, and to ask his teacher if he didn’t believe me. So I’m sure I’ve warped his psyche in other ways than giving him a bad haircut.
You know, I noticed that after I uploaded the image from my camera, and it looks fine IRL…its some weird photography/lighting/tilt of the head issue that makes the hair on the side of his head look longer than it really is.
I swore to myself that I’d never do that to my kids either, and yet…here I am doing it! I suppose I justified it the same way as I do their clothes/shoes…once they start complaining about it or noticing it, I can start taking them to a haircut place, or somewhere other than WalMart for their clothes…no sense instilling a sense of entitlement for name brands and salon haircuts at this stage of the game…
I had another thread about is somewhere…he was being chased at daycare on the playground, looking back at his playmate, and then turned around and bashed his mouth into the side of a metal slide, knocking out the one tooth and severely loosening the other.
At least he didn’t spontaneously combust.
And yeah, they were happy once it was over. Especially since we had some fun with the vacuum cleaner attachment where I was using it’s suction to clean up the little hairs off their necks, and also to stick to their necks, bellies, cheeks, etc. Good old fashioned Dad fun.
Now who wants to go outside and play catch with the lawn darts?
What’s the bowl for? You didn’t give them a bowl cut, did you? Why would you do such a thing?
Look, shaving a head is not that hard. You can basically just go at it from any direction and as many times as it takes. You really can’t mess it up, so long as the guard stays on. So what are you worried about?
The bowl thing is a joke. Of course I didn’t use a bowl. Sometimes though, as I think I just demonstrated with my first ever experience giving someone a buzz haircut with clippers, it LOOKS like I used one.
I think I said as much in the OP. I sent this pic to my Dad initially and his reply was “Did you use the rice bowl?” when he knew I would never do such a thing.
My Dad was a retired Private (busted down from Corporal after discharge because he declined to reenlist, in writing, in a frank tone) and he gave us buzz cuts too. My brother and I hated them! We were the only kids in our new school in the 70s with buzz cuts. It was a matter of cheapness too. Bro and I staged a mutiny and ended that crap.
Dad continued to wear his own buzz cut until Bro and I went off to college. To this day he is a hippie. Long blond hair only starting to turn white at 80.
