Vonage, the phone company with the memorable commercials, claims that “people do stupid things.” I have a correction. Teenagers in particular do stupid things. For proof, I need look no further than my own family. My son never ceases to amaze me me with his foolish antics. Over the course of this blog’s life, you will probably hear about many of these “events” in periodic posts.
Daniel, my teenager, has not had a haircut for three months. And, well, it shows. On Thursday, as we sat down at a restaurant for Thanksgiving, Daniel reported that he wanted a haircut. We made quick plans to send him to the barbershop the following day.
On Friday afternoon, I asked Daniel if he would go in about a half hour. He said he would as soon as his TV show finished. I came in a half hour later to find Daniel holding the digital camera, shooting a movie as usual.
“Ready to go?” I asked.
“Shush, dad. I’m making my movie,” sad Daniel, and he proceeded to get in position to retake the shot.
“But we need to go get your haircut.”
“I don’t want a haircut anymore,” he said, not taking his eyes off of the camera. “I don’t need it.”
“Since when? A half hour ago you said you would go.”
“Well, I’m making my movie. I really don’t need a haircut.”
Since I’m no pushover, I eventually coaxed him out the door, but I found myself shaking my head and laughing at the crazy haircut whims of teenagers. Stay tuned for more of these little stories!
my son, who is 11, absolutely REFUSES to get his hair cut! he still, to this day, has a temper tantrum when i try to take him. his latest thing is…he has decided that he isn’t going to cut his hair. instead, he is going to grow it out 10 inches and donate it to locks of love. well, i think that is a really nice gesture but, he’s doing it for the wrong reasons…it’s a diversionary tactic! i’m on to him…nothing goes by me
Yup… just went through that this week with my (almost) sixteen-year-old. Until now, I’ve always given him his haircuts, and with reason. I’m not a trained stylist, but he’s got a horrid fear of clippers and is extremely uncomfortable with strangers manipulating his head. So, I’ve always whipped out the handy-dandy sheers and did the deed myself… easy as pie… hold the hair between the fingers as close to the head as possible and anything sticking up gets snipped. Since he’s got naturally curly hair, this was beyond sufficient. He was also homeschooled and hand limited contact with the “real world”, so whether or not his hair was “cool” didn’t matter. However, this year, my two teen darlings returned to public school for the first time in five years, and my, oh, my how things have changed! He decided he wanted to grow his hair out… as in he hasn’t had it cut since August!! The curls got a bit rebellious on him this past month and he finally gave in to my (nagging) desire to see him get a trim.
Being a single mom, I cut corners where I can and since I have always cut his hair to this point (his own fears, right?), I decided to give it a go… only this time, instead of cutting it like normal, he asks me to just “trim it a little” so that his curls will be more well behaved. The boy has no idea what he was asking me to do! I snipped, clipped, and combed myself into an absolute frenzie… and gave up half way through. I begged him just to let me cut it the way I always have, but asking him to wear a near-buzz cut was like telling him I was going to give away his dog. The look he gave me was heart-breaking.
Off we go to the barber… where I then have to explain why the boy has half of a hair cut! (blushing badly).
Oh, my… and don’t even let me get started on the tails of my daughters hair trials and tribulations!
Teens and their hair? (throws arms up in the air)… I give up.
*smiles*
Great post.
*Sparky*
Go Daniel go !!!!
Oh my mum can so much relate to this. I think she had the same experiences with me
We used to kid my friend about having a bowl cut. There were him and his 5 brothers in the family.
One day a bunch of us went to pick him up early and he was sitting at his kitchen table with a SALAD BOWL on his head. He really did get bowl cuts, we didn’t give him too much of a hard time after that.
I guess with 6 boys in the family it was the only affordable method to keeping them in neat hair.
Hahaha.. Really true.
My son even though he is only 1 year and 9 months have that kind of attitude already.
Really difficult for us to cut his hair..
My mom is a retired beautician. You think not getting a haircut is bad? Try being the guinea pig for “new products” when you’re 13 and it’s a week before school pictures
Those teenagers live in the moment. Haircut one minute, tv, mp3, camcorder the next.
Thanks for all the comments guys. Funny stories!
i can relate to your story! I think that is what teenager now a days they feels like their cool with their long hair just like my brother and i keep on asking him to have a haircut and he keeps on refusing, one day i said to him: Are you not sure if your a boy or girl? and we laugh but still he’s hair the same until now.
That’s so funny. I remember that when I was a very young boy I tried to cut my hair myself.. Don’t ask me how it ended.
When i was 15 I haven’t had an haircut for about 8 years. No i’m 30, and my hair are falling sadly like leaves in Autumn…
How funny. People’s reactions to haircuts are so idiosyncratic and extreme.
Phyllis
When I was in high school, having long hair, like Kurt Corbain was basically the “in” thing to have, which works out nicely because I hate going for haircuts. Most of the time I would just let it grow long on its own, and the disciplinary teacher would just cut (butcher, is more like it) it for me at school. Then I’d be forced to get it fixed at the barber.
Weird thing is, short spiky hair is the “in” thing now and kids these days still refuse to cut their hair.
So this is what I have to look forward to! My son is only 9yrs old and he has no control over hair right now. Thanks for the read!