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Alex cut her hair. Again. I am completely disgusted with her. The last thing I had time for today was an emergency salon appointment.

I don't think today was the first time, either. There was a section near the front that I had noticed a while ago was suspiciously short. She denied cutting it. (This time our nanny caught her.)

She chose a new style which is quite pretty, and I confess that I am secretly delighted that I won't have to try to wrestle her hair into a ballet bun anymore, because I sucked at it. And her hair was difficult to care for because it's so fine. But for God's sake I have frequently offered to take her to the damn salon if she wants her hair cut. It is completely ridiculous of her to chew at it with scissors.



I wish there were a way to keep people from fussing over how cute she looks, because I don't want her to get a lot of positive attention for misbehaving. But of course there isn't a way.

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Tamsin has occasionally cut her own hair with scissors, but I draw the line at her cutting her clothes. Hair grows back, but I'm not going to pay for nice clothes that she's just going to cut up. That's when I confiscate her scissors and she's either not allowed to use them at all or only under supervision (depending on how egregiously she violated the 'no-cutting-your-clothes rule"). We only had to confiscate the scissors a couple times before she stopped cutting clothes. I also instituted a brief moratorium on buying or making any new clothes, on the basis that I didn't feel I could trust her to take care of them. (A "But I caaaaan..." "You have to SHOW me you can." conversation then ensued...)

Do you think confiscating Alex's scissors would work? With Tamsin, she's at a stage where she is asserting her "big-kid-ness," which seems to be why the taking away scissor privilege works.