Hair Pulling.....

My girls picked up on grabbing girls/womans hair about 2 months ago - but would only do it once in a while when they were being carried. But now - everytime a female picks them up - they go for the hair. Sometimes when the girls are sitting near each other - one of them goes for the others hair and vise versa. :angry:
I pull their hands off the hair and I'll smack their hand lightly and tell them not to do that - then I get a big smile from Katelyn thinking it's funny or Madelyn just looks at me and then starts doing something else. What do I do? Did anyone else have this problem?

I need to make this stop before it gets out of control.

 

I would keep consistently telling them no. Mine have gotten better about this recently...I think it's a phase.

I love your girls' middle names...my girls are Ashlyn Grace and Ansley Faith.

 

Mine started doing the same thing about a month ago. I didnt really know what to do!! The are too young to really understand "no", but I tried that, didnt work, so I tried the light slap, even tried a little hair pull back... but.... "monkey see monkey do"......- also didnt work.... so I opted for the "ignore the bad behavior, praise the good" theory. Within a couple of days, the hair pulling completely stopped. Every time one of them pulled hair, they would both look at me to see what I would do, knowing they were going to get some kind of reaction out of me.. but I reluctantly did nothing, and I tell you it worked like a charm!! We still get the very rare hair pull, but its NOTHING like it was. Everyone has different aproaches, thats what worked for me. Good luck!

 

One of my boys did this to his brother all the time (they have longer hair with lots of curls so there is a lot to grab for a boy)! I had to sit right by them all the time. Suggestions I was given but never tried was putting a hat on the one who was not doing the hair pulling and a TS'er gave the suggestion to put vasoline on the hair of the non hairpuller so when the other went to pull it, his hand would slide right off! Although I thought that would be interesting to try, I was not about to worry about the mess it would make! So I tried to make sure I was always close by. I always felt so bad for my other son.

 

Minw have been doing this for quite awhile now. I pull them apart, try to say "No, gentle gentle" -- I know they don't understand but I figure if I keep doing it, they eventually will. it's frustrating but a part of the oh so fun phase of ear yanking-biting-hair pulling that they boys are going thru. Good luck!

 

If I look at the ages of our babies it looks like it is a fase.... I hope because I think I have about three hairs left on my head... They pull ANY hair and like yours Veronica, even each others. And I love bows in their hair.... I tell them no and then both starts crying. I hope it stops soon.

 

My girls like to pull hair too. I have very short hair and DH has practically no hair (hehe!), so when someone else picks them up they go right for their hair! I take their hand away and say "Be gentle." I do this when they are trying to pull each other's hair too. They do stop. I've noticed they don't do it to other people as much (but still to each other sometimes). They also pull faces (noses, ears), and I do the same thing- take their hand away and say "Be gentle." I have no idea why, but it actually seems to be working!