My 5yo got a haircut today

And came home sobbing.

Ya’ll- my son cares more about his hair than the average 5yo. He cares more about his hair than anyone in our house. Last Christmas his stocking including hair products so he could play around with different styles and he LOVED it. Calls it the blue stuff- and he likes making his hair look “crazy” or in a Mohawk or just combing it all the way back. He is constantly pointing out hairstyles he likes on other people. He loves his hair and cool hair in general.

When he left today, his hair on top of his head reached just below his eyebrows and he would sweep it over to one side on “non blue stuff” days. The sides were a bit shorter, just starting to reach over his ears. He spent maybe an hour looking at inspo pics with my husband and found one that was his favorite. Definitely still long on top, and shorter than his normal cut on the sides. He was excited!

My husband said, “I’m gonna take him to [local barbershop] because I don’t trust Great Clips” and I said “great idea”

Well the barbershop had a long wait, he knew he’d be cutting it close with time. SO HE WENT TO GREAT CLIPS.

MY HUSBAND SAID HE DIDN’T TRUST THEM AND THEN TOOK MY HAIR CRAZY SON TO FUCKING GREAT CLIPS.

Right now his hair on the top of his head is shorter than the width of my damn finger. There is absolutely no way to style it in any way at all. It’s one level above a buzz cut.

5yo called me on the way home crying, saying “it’s too short!” And I tried to reconcile him saying “buddy I’ll see if I can put some blue stuff in it and still make it cool, I’m so sorry you don’t like it. You can grow it out again!” And when he walked in the house his face was red and blotchy from crying so hard. My heart shattered and I tried so hard not to cry with him. Now he’s in bed and I’m writing this and I AM crying. My poor guy.

And I realize it’s ridiculous. Hair grows back and overall this is such a small problem. He honestly looks fine and I don’t hate the cut itself but my boy DOES hate it and he was so distraught in such a real way. Not a little kid being dysregulated way, a real embarrassment kind of way. His aunt stopped by and he said he didn’t want her to see his haircut.

And to top it all off- tomorrow is his first day of kindergarten 😭 we’ve worked so hard all summer to get him excited and ready for school (separation anxiety, am a SAHM) and I was actually feeling confident that he would walk into that building and feel okay without me. He told me two days ago he was only feeling a little bit nervous now. Today he told me doesn’t want any of his friends to see his haircut. And all the confidence I felt about tomorrow is vanished.

My husband feels horrible and I’m trying really hard to not make him feel worse but what the FUCK y’all.

Also fuck Great Clips. Okay I’m done now. Thank you for reading, bromos