It’s one thing when your child cuts their fringe off with a pair of scissors – it’s a whole other ballgame when they get hold of the clippers as US mum Stephanie Plucknette found out this past weekend
Her three children – aged five, three, and two – were alone for about 10 minutes when they managed to find the buzz cutter.
The oldest, Freddy, gave his younger two siblings haircuts – and he was “proud at first” to show his mum. Plucknette posted a video of the moment she saw her kids’ hair on Instagram, which her younger brother then shared on Twitter.
Initially sobbing, Plucknette films herself saying: “I’m crying because... look!” She pans the camera around to her three kids, who seem shocked at their mum’s reaction.
“She said she wanted me to do that so I did it,” her eldest child Freddy told the camera, speaking about his youngest sister who had the back of her head shaved off.
Trying to reassure herself, the mum says out loud: “It’s just hair, and it’s going to grow back – mummy is okay.” Her daughter can later be heard saying: “Mummy, can you put more hair on my head?”
The video has had 8.5 million views on Twitter at the time of writing, with 200,000 retweets and 450,000 likes.
Plucknette told BuzzFeed News she and her husband decided to shave the rest of the kids’ hair off – and have assured them it’ll grow back.
Far from judge the mum, parents on Twitter could sympathise.