your experience sounds awful. i remember my brother being afraid of hair cuts so i'm anxious to avoid that for mine.

I always have a hairdresser come to the house to do mine and my daughters hair, maybe Big E may feel more comfortable in his own surroundings.

Big hugs hun xxx

such terrible service! even if it was midday and it was crowded and say they had another customer losing his cool with the manager over your child's cries, so that the manager might have felt like he HAD to get you guys out of there – they should ahve at LEAST allow you to get out of there without paying. I'd be telling everyone I knew and having a mini boycott. haha.

I would be fuming, absolutely hopping mad – if you left with your dignity intact – very well done – I would have gone ballistic and completely shown myself up.

I recommend a home visit by a mobile hairdresser – we did it for years. Daughter came with me if I went to the hairdressers but had hers cut at home by a friend that was a hairdresser. She wasn't ready to brave the hairdressers chair until she was about 6.

PS my friends own child also had his hair cut at the same time and he always screamed the house down and it was his dad cutting!!!

Your child is not unusual, the hairdresser was -I would name and shame then to as many local mums as you can.

x

I would definitely write a letter of complaint to the hairdressers, not an irate rant, just state why you feel you have been mistreated. Definitely write to your local newspaper.

Have you thought about using a mobile hairdresser in future? Having a haircut in your own home where your son can be distracted with toys etc. may be less traumatic for him.

well, I left with only half a haircut for my 18 month old. He didn't like strangers, people touching him, the weird hairdressers etc.

It was under my volition that we left, though, I just thought if he's in that bad a state he'll loose and ear and never ever want it done.

Here's what I did. did it at home myself with a Thomas the Tank engine DVD on the telly and bribed him with choc. Not the best haircut ever, but good enough. Not tantrum, no truama, and lots of positive things to really praise him about. Also, get your husband to take him with him when he's having a haircut, so he can see what happens and that it's ok. This will give him some positive experiences about haircuts.

Also, and most importantly, never set foot in that awful hairdressers again! what a bunch of expletives! You are absolutely right to feel like you did about it. They can stick their tuts up their behinds, frankly. Maybe in a few months, you could try you husbands barbers again, instead.

If it is a chain i think you should make a formal complaint to head office.

Glad you found someone else to cut it in time for the party.

Definitely write to your local paper – they should not be allowed to get away with such appalling behaviour and should be publicly shamed for it.

Poor E Hope he has an absolutely fabulous birthday to make up for it.

And Kai is going to have to have hair down to his knees because there is no way we will manage a hair cut without a good deal of screaming and thrashing!!

I've never taken Rosemary to a hairdresser, though I really should, as my cutting skills are sadly lacking and her hair just looks like a big mess these days.

I got told to 'keep that child still' at a railway station once. The guy had apparently not slept for 24 hours, but how he expected to get peace and quiet in a busy station, I don't know. And he obviously had no experience of small children, if he imagined it would be possible to keep a 2-year-old still!

YOU PAID FOR IT???? Seriously I'd have told them where to stick it, no hair cut no money. Tossers!

Hope Big E has a fab party tomorrow. xx

None of the customers where we go would say anything. I wouldn't have paid and I also would name and shame and issue a letter of complaint.

I have only ever been really upset like this and it was in M&S when an old lady told me that MaxiMad belonged in a home, as he was far too loud. I was so upset I burst into tears and the customer assistant who heard took her to one side and made her apologise.

If the leter gets you no where then ring the local rag.

I just remembered, I did actually get kicked out of a charity shop because my son was having a tantrum. The manager actually picked him up and deposited him on the pavement outside which I was livid about but too shocked to do anything but skulk away home and cry.