May 6, 2020

These Can Help You Prepare Your Son for His First Haircut

There are always those boys that yell and scream the day that it’s time for their first haircut. You can make sure they’re brave and ready.

You know the moment. Just when you want to capture that milestone, they toss their yarmulke and cry and cry while you keep trying to take that photo. One way to avoid this is to role play before something as significant as a first haircut.

I love preparing the kids with books and toys. Usually I also take the boys on a trip to the barber so they can watch a haircut and see what to expect.

Well, no there’s no barber available to visit now! But there are some books and toys that can help you role play together.

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Play Doh Barber Shop Toy

This is another version of the barber set but might seem girly, but it really depends on what colors you use.

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Leah Schapira

Leah is the best-selling author of 10 kosher cookbooks. She’s known as a master “connector,” bringing people together and collaborations to life.

Filed under: Children & Teens

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7 responses to “These Can Help You Prepare Your Son for His First Haircut”

Shevy Gelb

May 6, 2020

How about a tutorial for giving haircuts at home, as well as best hair cutting machines?

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1. Dinah Reich
  
  May 7, 2020
  
  As a mother of four boys in a row, i feel authorized to recommend a hair-cutting machine. 🙂 We have been giving many haircuts over the last few years.
  After using the Oster for many years, someone informed my husband about the Panasonic- its a bit pricier but comes with attachments that you can adjust to any size, eliminating the need to purchase attachments. Its cordless and very light and a pleasure to use.
  https://amzn.to/35DKXna
  
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  1. Leah Schapira
    
    May 7, 2020
    
    Thanks for recommending a machine!
    
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    1. Dinah
      
      May 7, 2020
      
      Glad to help!
      For those that know what number they use from the Oster machine- a 4, 3.5… there’s a guide online that you can print out of the mm size of the blade attachments so you know what size to set this Panasonic machine to.
      Hope I’m clear… when in doubt google it. Lol
      
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Elisheva

July 7, 2020

I found this poster very helpful when I started cutting my boys’ hair.
http://www.chinuch.org/item_detail/8/38/The-Kosher-Haircut-Guide-Cutting-Peyos-According-to-Halacha-Poster-

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1. Rosie
  
  December 8, 2021
  
  This is only available for those with a chinuch.org account.
  
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Simmy

May 19, 2022

Creating a chinuch.org account is free and you can opt-out of any mailings.

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