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[quote=Anonymous]My 9 year old daughter has now grown out of most of her sensory issues, but the hair thing remains our kryptonite. She has thick curly hair so we can't take it too short or she will just look like a chia pet, unfortunately. (We also can't really do the braid at night trick -- I don't think that parent is one with a sensory-sensitive child; mine can't tolerate anything in her hair, much less braids, especially while sleeping!) We use a combination of all these techniques -- a ton of condition when we wash it and a wide tooth comb to comb it out then; knot genie with detangler spray on other days. I also like the leave-in condition lotion that you can sort of spread around the hair -- it seems to work better than the spray in detangler. When we use the spray detangler, I cut it with water, and then use a ton of it. But despite all this, often I usually just let her go to school with her hair messy. We've had too many days where she is sobbing and out of control because I insisted she comb her hair like a "normal" child. We parent the child we got, not the parent we thought we'd get, and if some other parent or teacher judges me because my daughter's hair looks like a mess, then so be it. We're doing the best we can. So my advice is to do what you can, but if you can't get it brushed/combed, don't make that the hill you die on. You'll have my empathy, at least.[/quote]
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