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The above are the most common search words registered on MyMomsBest website. It indicates that hundreds and thousands of parents are desperately searching for a way to reduce the tears, stress, fights, screams, howls, kicks and etc that relate to giving a child the much needed haircut.

MyMomsBest’s forum members have taken the initiative to discuss on ways make haircuts a breeze and shared them on the website. You may read all about it there. However, here are my few personal tips:

1. A trip to the hairdresser can be as stressful as a trip to the dentist. Therefore, between both parents, find out which one of you is less stress and let the person handle it. Otherwise, your nervousness is going to rub off on your baby/newborn/child and he/she is going to sense it and make a big dramatic mess.
2. We usually doubt the hair-dressers and the mamak shops kind of barber and instead opt for DIY. However, do you know that they are experts in handling newborns (especially Indian barbers)? They may seem rough but their hands are quick and right to the point.
3. Don’t DIY (do it yourself) unless you are absolutely confident because you may cause unnecessary cuts and snips to your child.
4. Best time to do start going to the hairdresser/barber is to start from babyhood. My toddler is very cool about going to the hairdresser. Each time, I never go along with him because I am a nervous wreck, jumpy and very possessive. So, I let his father to go with him.
5. If you have a bigger child, start with visiting the barber/hairdresser when either one of you is there to get a haircut. Let him acclimatise and find something interesting to amuse him. I showed my older kids the elephant gods at the Indian barber shop.
6. Remember to instruct the barber not to shave with the shaving knife.
7. Of course, it is safer to go to smaller barbers and neighbourhood hairdressers because they are familiar with handling kids’ heads. Don’t go for some posh place with some green/purple hair hairdressers that freaked your child out.
8. Many parents are still going through the torture ritual of restraining the child while one parent is snipping away nervously. Meanwhile, the child is bawling furiously. If you are doing so, do start venturing out to check on a suitable barber for the next haircut. This torturing ritual is not going to end anytime soon because your child had been traumatised and will not turn angelic anytime soon.
9. Rewards and bribes work. A packet of juice dangled in front of the kid will make him/her sit quietly.
10. Lots of praises will make the child look forward to trips to hairdressers.

Meantime, we shall wait until our country has hairdressing salon catered just for kids.

I guess if you still have problems, then let your boys keep long hair. They are suave, you know?