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My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She told them a bunch of stuff, none of it sounds terribly real. MIL and FIL are convinced that they were cut. (That is scary to me that someone might have cut her eyelashes. But it is hard for me to imagine who would have the opportinuty to do such a thing.) I wonder if she pulled them out? She has her fingers on her eyes all the time, kinda like a tick. She does pinch them. She tells me that she has no recollection of anyone cutting her eyelashes. I wonder if the in-laws questions were so leading as to give her things to say to placate them. Worry? Not worry? My Mom is in the don't worry camp. But if anyone has put scissors near her eyes, well that alarms the snot out of me. Stephanie > My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My > MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Stephanie You should be able to tell if they were cut, I'd have thought. A non-cut eyelash gets thinner towards the end. It sounds unlikely to me that both sets of eyelashes were cut, if one side is markedly shorter than the other then it would seem more likely. Is it possible that her eyelashes just are short? Are they definitely shorter than usual. I remember going through a phase of pulling at my eylashes. I did it because my eye was sore and I kept thinking I had an eyelash in it, and I did pull quite a few out. It turned out I had a stye inside the eyelid. Debbie >> My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed >> it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > likely. Is it possible that her eyelashes just are short? Are they > definitely shorter than usual. They are definitely shorter than usual on one side only. They make sort of a crescent shape, long on the outside and short on the inside. > I remember going through a phase of pulling at my eylashes. I did it > because my eye was sore and I kept thinking I had an eyelash in it, > and I did pull quite a few out. It turned out I had a stye inside the > eyelid. Debbie >>> My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed >>> it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > They are definitely shorter than usual on one side only. They make sort of > a crescent shape, long on the outside and short on the inside. Have you asked her if she's pulled any out? That does sound like she might have been pulling them out. Debbie >> I remember going through a phase of pulling at my eylashes. I did it >> because my eye was sore and I kept thinking I had an eyelash in it, >> and I did pull quite a few out. It turned out I had a stye inside the >> eyelid. Debbie >They are definitely shorter than usual on one side only. They make sort of a >crescent shape, long on the outside and short on the inside. Cut hair has a blunt end. If the lashes are tapered at the end she most likely pulled or rubbed them out while touching her eyes a lot and they're growing back. Nan > >> My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed > >> it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > They are definitely shorter than usual on one side only. They make sort of a > crescent shape, long on the outside and short on the inside. That sounds like cutting to me. She may have done it herself. Stephanie schrieb: > She tells me that she has no recollection of anyone cutting her eyelashes. I > wonder if the in-laws questions were so leading as to give her things to say > to placate them. > > Worry? Not worry? My Mom is in the don't worry camp. But if anyone has put > scissors near her eyes, well that alarms the snot out of me. Do you happen to have one of those eyelash curlers? I "cut" my eyelashes with my moms when I was little (7?) I thought that's what it was used for. I just pressed it together really hard and then kind of pulled or something, I remember it hurt a lot so I didn't do the second eye... I don't remember if my mom noticed or not but I'm sure I didn't tell her the truth because I thought she'd be mad at me for taking her eyelash curler. I also cut off my fringe once, just in one place because I kind of realized it was stupid and well, my mom wasn't too thrilled, and I might have cut my eyelashes with a pair of small curved scissors. And please, let's not forget painting my fingernails with "tipp-ex" (whiteout), eating dry dog food, making "soup" with my greatgrandmothers laundry soap in her (very very) old fashioned washing "machine" (I can't even remember how it worked, it was just a big vat you poured water into and I think it had a heater or something and she had a separate "spinner" or something. It was ages ago and we didn't play there often (I wonder why ;-) ) So yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it but maybe tell her that scissors near the eyes is not good and that you can _really_ hurt yourself and others with them. cu nicole >Stephanie schrieb: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> Worry? Not worry? My Mom is in the don't worry camp. But if anyone has put >> scissors near her eyes, well that alarms the snot out of me. I would wonder exactly what was said because I think cutting someone's eyelashes is unlikely unless she did it herself. That's a different kind of worry for sure. What access does she have to scissors. I did tend to get a lot of eyelashes in my eyes and they were hard to get out, so I tended (and still do) to pull on my eyelashes so that any that aren't securely anchored are pulled out before they can fall out. Also, this time of year my eyes tend to itch and have a certain amount of mucus in them which means that I want to rub them. >Do you happen to have one of those eyelash curlers? I "cut" my eyelashes >with my moms when I was little (7?) I thought that's what it was used [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >realized it was stupid and well, my mom wasn't too thrilled, and I might >have cut my eyelashes with a pair of small curved scissors. And please, I apparently got so many burrs in my sisters hair that my mom gave up and cut them out. The other thing I did was cut an area about the size of a 50 cent piece right in the front of my hair. I did this with my grandmother's nail scissors. I had been put to bed in her room with barrettes in my hair (I had waist length hair), and the barrettes pulled at my cowlick which is right at my widow's peak. I didn't think to take the barrettes out. I just cut the hair that was pulling off right at the scalp. My mom had a fit. >let's not forget painting my fingernails with "tipp-ex" (whiteout), >eating dry dog food, making "soup" with my greatgrandmothers laundry [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >something. It was ages ago and we didn't play there often (I wonder why >;-) ) I ran my arm through the wringer of the washer at my aunt's house when I was trying to 'help'. Fortunately it was set to do blankets. >So yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it but maybe tell her that >scissors near the eyes is not good and that you can _really_ hurt >yourself and others with them. > >cu >nicole > My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My > MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She told [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Stephanie My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls". They grew back fine, and she never did it again. N >> My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed >> it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > They grew back fine, and she never did it again. > N The weird thing is that she genuinely does not seem to know what happened. >> My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was >> that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls". >> They grew back fine, and she never did it again. > > The weird thing is that she genuinely does not seem to know what happened. I dunno. At 4yo, magical thinking still applies: if I *want* not to have done it badly enough, I really didn't do it. They can be utterly convincing and totally false all at the same time ;-) After her grandparents made a fuss, she may have heartily wished she hadn't done it and decided to go with that theory, even if normally she wouldn't have lied about something like that. Best wishes, Ericka >>> My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was >>> that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls". [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Best wishes, > Ericka That is what I think. Which is fine. My ONLY worry is that there is someone who is sticking scissors near her eyes and may attempt to repeat the process. >>>> My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was >>>> that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls". [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > who is sticking scissors near her eyes and may attempt to repeat the > process. You know her the best, but if it were *my* DD, if someone else had done it, she'd likely be ratting them out in no time flat ;-) Best wishes, Ericka > My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My > MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > has her fingers on her eyes all the time, kinda like a tick. She does > pinch them. Well, I do know that my mom and her friends believed that long eyelashes wee the most beautiful thing and they also believed that cutting a baby's eyelashes would grow them longer, so they cut them.. Well, my mom was too scared to, so she thought that's why mine are so short. Her friend did, and that's why my mom thinks her friend's child's lashers were so long. It's a cultural thing, so if they are not from such a culture, the adults probably didn't cut them. I know DD did go through a phase where she was obsessed with her eyelashes, touching them, poking them, pulling them, etc. > My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My > MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She told [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Stephanie This reminded me of my niece when she was 4. She cut her hair hiding behind a couch at grandma's house close to Christmastime (this was her second or third crack at it too). My sister took her to see Santa and had arranged with Santa to speak to her about it. He said "No more cutting your own hair, okay?" She shook her head yes, but the look on her face was of amazement. She couldn't believe Santa actually knew that. lol. She didn't ever cut her own hair again either. |
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