So we have started to cut his hair at home .. or should I say, Doren does it.
See Walter's face .. it started with a normal face, still happy and then he slowly realizes that .. its a hair cut..
start to grimace ..
and cry.. we were worried what our neighbours would think, as he was screaming ..
The hand phone was to placate him (he likes to listen to the music on my wife's hand phone).. but didn't really work.. 
as he wriggled 
and cried more. 
Anybody else with a Downs Syndrome child who can suggest how we can get him to calm down and cut his hair?
The hand phone was to placate him (he likes to listen to the music on my wife's hand phone).. but didn't really work.. as he wriggled and cried more. 
Anybody else with a Downs Syndrome child who can suggest how we can get him to calm down and cut his hair?Ernest
2 comments:
My friend's little boy used to be the same (not DS though), he would create merry hell in the barber's. Has Walter had to have any brain scans where the docs put things on his head? That is what they thought gave Joshua his phobia of having anyoone go near his head with any instruments.
There was a shop in Melbourne who sat the kids on rocking horses in front of Disney films to cut their hair and that was quite successful.
Failing that, maybe you could role play the barbers, with a doll and a pair of safety scissors. Pretend to be running your own barber and let Walter be the barber?
It might help.
Yup, when he was 7 days old, the doctors shaved his head and stuck 11 needles in .. for his first major surgery... and the same for two other surgery that he had... so guess there's where the phobia came from.
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