Toddler hair cut

It absolutely traumatises my son too. Doesn't help that his hair grows quickly too. We take him to a hairdressers who have hair dressers who are trained in sensory issues. It's traumatic but they are good with him. It's expensive but we wouldn't be able to manage otherwise. Got to go on Thursday :( He actually hated the dentist too but was such a good boy this time and even opened his mouth so she could see his teeth. AND sat in dentist chair!! I did prepare him by reading book about dentist and let him take the book with him. So I'm hoping with time hair dressers will get better. I can't find a good book about going :( Sorry not much advice but in the same boat xx

My boy was the same. Even though he still hates it, he is much better! We use a mobile hairdresser to the house and I use a painting apron with sleeves as he hated the gowns. We also absolutely soak his hair so the hair that comes off isn’t such a sensory overload for him. I also do lots of playing cutting his hair in between! We also stand round removing all hair to the floor! The phone also helped! I’ve just bought him the playdoh haircut set in the hope it would make it a little fun! Maybe you need to take it back and literally just start by regularly wetting his hair and cutting just once! X

All I can say is snap I have a mobile hairdresser/ friend that does ours he hates it traumatised by it he hates his hair wash too xx

After what feels like an eternity of my son (and me, tbh) finding haircuts incredibly traumatic (he’s had to have them since about a year old as he has SO much hair), and having tried EVERYTHING (screen, bribery, sweets, someone else taking him, different places- you name it, I tried it) one day it was like a switch. He quite literally said to me randomly “mummy, I’m not going to cry when I have my haircut anymore” and I was like oh right, sure…. And no word of a lie, he asked not to go back to the hairdresser that we had been using (private salon in her garden so he could scream and I wouldn’t die of embarrassment) and asked to go back to the barbers (which he’d previously hated too) and he hopped into the chair and let them cut it, like it had never phased him before. Scissors, clippers, spray, hairdryer, the lot. 🤯 So no advice really, maybe just time? Continuous exposure in the hope he eventually realises it’s fine?!

This was a struggle for us too. I was told that we shouldn’t expect them to stay still like an adult can, so just to move around with them. In summer I started cutting his hair in the garden, that way he could move around freely. But I gave him a spray bottle and he would actually just stand still spraying water on the grass. Also got him a cape and a brush because he didn’t like the feeling of the hair on his neck.

I thought it was just me! My son has always hated having his hair cut. I’ve tried bribing him with chocolates, phone, games, singing. Nothing works! He is still the same! Luckily I used to be a hairdresser so I can cut it but it’s still so traumatic for him. Especially around his ears, he won’t let me anywhere near them without crying his heart out

@Millie it's the ears and neck with our son too xx

I took my little boy to a hairdresser / barber that specialises with children that have autism etc and the first 4 times we went he was ok . . The out of the blue the next time we went was the worse experience. He hated everything - the gown, the clippers, the hair dryer. So i started going to my friends house and she uses scissors instead of clippers and he seems to be a lot calmer with that. Also helps because her son ( older) will play and entertain him while his mum cuts my son’s hair. Last time we went he was good as gold and said next time he will have the clippers . . So we will see?! To be fair my friend said her son age 9 still isn’t a fan of having his hair cut 😅🤣🤦🏻‍♀️