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BARBERTOWN — Being a little kid can be confusing.
Children are often filled with a slew of conflicting ideologies through which their yet-to-be-developed brains have a difficult time sorting. They want to be big and helpful, but lack the capacity to process consequences. They want to emulate the people in their life, whom they envy, yet lack the skill and coordination of an older person.
They also really like to use scissors.
Leaving small children alone with a pair of sheers can be a dangerous experiment that often results in long locks littering the floor and an exasperated mother or father. I remember having my own hair-cutting incident when I was around 4 years old and had been left in the basement momentarily with a pair of pink-handled scissors on the oak coffee table. Needless to say, my curiosity over the sound and feel of metal slicing through a gathering of follicles was too strong, and my thick bangs became an inch or so too short in the blink of an eye. My mother was not pleased.
In a video posted to YouTube by user Jennifer Clark, dad has caught his 3-year-old Ansleigh momentarily after making herself a lovely new do-it-yourself coif.
Upon further interrogation, it turns out Ansleigh cut it because she wanted to learn to cut hair and needed the practice, saying that she "wanted to know how to do it really too." You have to admire her attitude.
It's adorable, sincere and oh-so relatable.
Did you ever cut your hair as a child? As a parent, have you ever had a child cut their own hair?
