children's hair removal?

balletshoes

blackEyes wrote: »

the ones that have used the razor.. do you notice the hair thicker and growing too quickly ? my dd is too young yet but she is dark and i can see she will have the same problem i had when i was a child... i had hairy legs and my mum did nothing about it, i used to take my dad;s razor and do it myself, cutting myself in the process....

I haven't noticed that the hair looks thicker or grows more quickly on my DD, and as I said I only shave her legs when she asks me to. I wouldn't ever suggest to my DD she does anything cosmetic like this, as I do believe in letting children be children. If she notices and becomes self-conscious though, enough to ask me to help her, thats when we discuss it - as another poster has said, some kids will notice and feel that they want to do something about it, and for some kids it won't bother them.

JC9297

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

I just do not like the idea of a young child of this age removing hair at all. It just seems wrong to me.

That's easy to say when it isn't you or your child. I would not wear ankle socks at primary school because my legs were hairier and darker than the other girls and was really self-concious about them. Only wore them when I started to immac or shave as a teenager.

p-pincher

i can speak from experience on this as i was (or am) exactly like your daughter in having excess hair. I dont really like the ideas of young girls making themselves up etc but from my experience I do think this is a bit of a different situation. There is nothing as cruel as kids at the kind of age your daughter is at, nick names stick at that age ( i know i had one or two).
i have 2 dd's and although i wouldnt be really happy with hair removal if i thought my daughter was getting teased or if it was really upsetting her i would get rid of the hair. I would probably go with immac at this age as waxing just seems quite grown up and shes probably to young for razors unless your going to do it for her.

roadiegirl

If anything, I'd let her know her options next time she asks or gets upset about it. It is absolutely awful, as there is nothing worse than the b****y comments from girls at school, especially as she gets a bit older. My legs were really dark (they still are), but my Mum saw how much it was affecting me after I butchered my legs with one of her razors. In the end she ended up using hair removal cream on my legs once every week or two (I was about 9/10 by this point), then as I got older she introduced me to shaving and let me take it from there. I now wax parts as and when they need doing, but it saved me all the horrible taunts from the girls at school!

Mupette

Can the gp help

I know there are drugs to slow the speed of hair growing inc body hair, but i think that is more for those with pcso (sp?)
but i was on them too for a variant of that.

but you many feel 9 is too young for tablets

nonnatus

Hmmm. I'm not sure why people object so much to be honest. It's not like you're sticking her on the pill or buying her a g-string is it??
She has hairy legs which affects her confidence. It's well within your power to do something cheap and painless to solve her problem.
There are no long term medical repercussions, just a happier little girl!
(My daughter had the same problem obviously and I used the cream. She was happy, I was happy, my mother in law was outraged. Five years on she is a happy teenager who shaves her own legs. It didn't turn her into a monster!)

DKLS

Kimberley82 wrote: »

I have used the pads and found them useless.

Though her dad is now saying she isnt to use anything for a good few years.

All very noble of her Dad, but he isnt the one going to get all the comments, flak and teasing is he. Kids can be evil sods, and with he is giving them all the ammunition to make her life hell for the next "good few years"

ellies_angel

my friend started taking he daughter at 11 to the beauty salon to get her legs waxed with her (she now gets her underarms done too). Now neither my friend or her daughter are what you would call girlie girls, not into pretty clothes, in fact both are happy in their jeans, docs and band tee-shirts spending their time at festivals and gigs, but as she said, Megan was really unhappy with how hairy her legs were and mum didn't want her shaving or using cream (sensitive skin) and thought after the initial trip to the salon and the pain involved she would prefer hairy legs, however that wasn't the case and now every 8 weeks off they trot to the salon. Megan has just had her 15th birthday and the hair growth on her legs has really slowed down, appears much thiner and in places she has no regrowth. Its also given them some girlie (although they aren't girlies) time together
ps - I initially thought, taking her to a salon at 11 are you wise, but I was thinking more about the cost.........very money saving!!

Kimberley82

ellies_angel wrote: »

my friend started taking he daughter at 11 to the beauty salon to get her legs waxed with her (she now gets her underarms done too). Now neither my friend or her daughter are what you would call girlie girls, not into pretty clothes, in fact both are happy in their jeans, docs and band tee-shirts spending their time at festivals and gigs, but as she said, Megan was really unhappy with how hairy her legs were and mum didn't want her shaving or using cream (sensitive skin) and thought after the initial trip to the salon and the pain involved she would prefer hairy legs, however that wasn't the case and now every 8 weeks off they trot to the salon. Megan has just had her 15th birthday and the hair growth on her legs has really slowed down, appears much thiner and in places she has no regrowth. Its also given them some girlie (although they aren't girlies) time together
ps - I initially thought, taking her to a salon at 11 are you wise, but I was thinking more about the cost.........very money saving!!

I have my own salon and know the girl that does waxing would do it for free so cost isnt a problem in that respect.

dollydoodah

You all have my sympathies - my 6 yr old is very dark and is currently very upset as she is being teased at school about having a moustache She has a lot of dark hair on her legs and arms (just like I did as a child) and no matter how much we talk to her about it, there are days when she is very upset about it.