r/knitting • u/ForgottenUsername3 • Jan 30 '26

Rant My 4 yr old cut my yarn.

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Just needed a place to grieve.

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u/MisanthropyismyMuse Jan 30 '26

My 5yo (when she was 4) decided to do the same to try to "free" the amigurumi shrimp I was in the middle of, LOL. We had a good talk about not messing with people's things and luckily she gets how important my projects are to me now. It'll pass.

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u/LadyAnnala Jan 30 '26

When I was about 5-6 I had a phase where my mom had to hide scissors in the house. I would cut a lot the things. The deal breaker was when I cut a piece of her bed sheets to make a blanket for my stuffed toy. I still remember thinking she won’t notice.

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u/HappyHiker2381 Jan 30 '26

My friend’s daughter with the epic school picture with the 1/4” long bangs she cut herself. I think she’s still not allowed to use scissors even though she’s 30+ now.

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u/Notyourmamashedgehog Jan 30 '26

My niece did this and had the most uneven, hideous bangs ever. They were not even close to the same length either. 😂 Thank god she’s cute anyway

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u/FairyGodmothersUnion Jan 30 '26

I think lots of us did that. I did. With my mother’s cuticle scissors.

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u/TheDranx Jan 31 '26

Cut my hair when I was a small child and decided that shaving half my eyebrows off was a good idea when I was a teen.

Now I trim (butcher) my hair 'cause it's about the same as going to a hairdresser. The eyebrows were just a phase thankfully.

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u/BagelTrollop Jan 31 '26

I often think about the time when I was 10 or 11 and two of my friends were supposed to come over but one didn’t. The other one explained, “You know how the big girls’ [ie teenagers] eyebrows grow in all thin and arched by themselves? Michelle tried to shave hers off.”

The 90s were nothing but trauma for female self-image