Our son’s first real low haircut at 8 Years Old!
Why We Waited
We waited. Well, I waited. When my son was a baby, I wanted nothing more than to keep growing his beautiful soft curls. He had the most gorgeous head of hair. Around 18 months old when the conversation came about between my husband and I about when his first haircut should be, I mentioned that I wanted to grow it out. But eventually, that beautiful hair didn’t want combs in there. So one quick hairdo turned into several and before you know it, the hair became tougher and tougher to handle.
Fast forward to 3 years old and we were on our way to a trip in the Caribbean. We took our little boy for his first haircut at the Barber’s. That was a fail. Our son was terrified of the trimming machine. The Barber suggested we wait until he was able to handle the trimming. He mentioned that it was not his first time he had a kid who was terrified of getting a haircut and it’s in the child’s best interest that we wait. So we waited.
Around the age of 6, when we enrolled him in school, we got another haircut….although it was not a full cut. It was not a low cut. Both my son and I wanted something with a bit of a high-top. It was so cute.
But when his hair grew back and said hair was a became a mess, that even a comb couldn’t go through, we had to agree with the Barber that we needed to do a very low cut and start from scratch. That was such a tough decision for every one. My little one didn’t want to have his hair cut low like his dad and he didn’t want kids to make fun of his low cut. But we knew it was in his and our best interest to have his hair cut low so we could handle it better. So we braved up and did it.
The haircut turned out so cute and my son’s hair so neat and clean… that has never looked better! But the challenge came when it was time to go to school the following day. He was a little embarrassed to go to school. I felt for him because kids will tell you as they see and my son had a hard time accepting the fact that his hair was so low. I think hind sight, we should have cut it on a time when he had a few days off school to let it grow a tad. But we wanted fresh at the moment and I as a mom just couldn’t take that previous hair anymore, to be honest.
Did the kids make fun of him?
Oh, some of them made comments of his hair that he didn’t like at all… “You are bald” was what he heard from other kids. One day, a kid shouted across the room something about him being bald. At that point, I ended up calling the school and the office transferred me to the principal. She took care of that. I didn’t hear any more complaints after that and eventually, my son grew confident with his hairstyle. And eventually, it grew back but not as long as it was before. It’s still very low now but not as low as when he got that first very low cut.
Do you have boys you’ve taken to the Barber’s for a haircut? How was their first experience? Would love to know in the comments.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, ane eateth not the bread of idleness (Proverbs 31:27).
