What compels children to do things like shave off one eyebrow? Can anyone explain this to me? I know that the child in question could not.
When he returned from his father’s house on Sunday, 12 year old E was missing one eyebrow. Totally gone. Shaved off his face. When I asked him why in the world he’d shaved off one eyebrow, he responded simply that it had been “an accident.” He declined to elaborate further.
E, sans eyebrow
This isn’t the first time one of my children has taken it upon themselves to undertake a little home barbering; when J was about 8, she somehow managed to pull out all of the eyelashes on the upper half of her left eye. I was horrified, and secretly convinced that she had suddenly developed some sort of OCD disorder that involved yanking out one’s own eyelashes. As it turned out, she’d just been curious to know what would happen if she yanked REALLY, REALLY hard on her eyelashes. Once she found out, she never did it again, and I am happy to report that they all grew back.
When she was six, J took a pair of scissors and cut off all of her bangs, all the way up to her hairline. It looked frighteningly bad. She was mortified when she realized how awful she looked with long hair on the sides and then this weird wispy fringe of what had been bangs at the top of her forehead. The only thing I could figure out to do was take her to the salon for a 6-year old version of the Mia Farrow haircut from Rosemary’s Baby. I actually loved the way she looked with her new supershort hair cut, but she was even more upset with this attempt to fix the problem. She mostly wore a hat for the next three months. And she never cut her own hair again..
J’s hair about 8 weeks after she cut off all her bangs and had to get the mini Mia Farrow.
But yeah. E “accidentally” shaved off one of his eyebrows this week. And I have no idea why. I have a feeling he doesn’t either.
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Don’t feel bad my brother once put two strips of duck tape in his hair because he thought it was funny but he wasn’t laughing when my mother had to cut it out of his hair and practically had to shave him bald to get it all out. We laughed at him though and we still tease him about it.
No worries. My almost-three-year old cut off all her bangs this past weekend while I was out of town and Daddy had left her alone while he went to the bathroom. Her explanation was that “her hair was in her eyes.” We took her to get it trimmed today, but I think it’s just going to look funny for a while. Oh well, hair grows back. And so do eyebrows.
Oh the many crazy things they do, huh? I haven’t had anything major yet – but I know it’s coming. The baby is going to be the instigator – he already likes to draw on every surface, including his oblivious brother (too busy playing Super Mario Bros to notice apparently!)
All my family’s stories that include the loss of eyebrows also feature fire in some way…consider yourself lucky….so far
Oh… I remember Jane with that haircut. Gosh, she was a cute little pony kid. As for E, oh my…
I did that in college. I hate tweezing and was trying to shape my brow with my razor. Shaved too much off, so I just removed the eyebrow, which meant I had to remove the other eyebrow. Boy was my mom mad. When she asked me why I did it, I said “it was something to do.” That mad her even angrier. I used an eyebrow pencil until they grew back. (And they grew back nicely.)
Maybe he wanted to see what shaving was like, and that was the most convenient hair available.
Poor E. I did something similar when I was eight or so, I think. I REALLY wanted bangs, and my mother wouldn’t let me have them, so I pulled down the very middle, where my widow’s peak is. I thought they’d be all light and wispy, but of course they stuck straight out. I kept trimming, and trimming, and… Yeah. Ended up with a bald widow’s peak and had to swoop my hair over to the side in a barrette, over the awkwardly growing stubble, for many months.
A growing-out eyebrow, unfortunately, is harder to hide. Give him a hug from Aunt Julie.
I did to a friend what aunt Julie did to herself.
When I was 9 my friend asked me to cut her bangs.
I kept on trying to make them even, and cut off the hair to her scalp.
Oh, did i get in trouble with our mothers.
My daughter cut off her bangs when she was ll, but it was not too short, nothing a professional could not fix.
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hey the little picture that i saw was so lame wha t was to pose to hapen she looks like shes eating pizza