My 9 YO DD Cut her eyebrows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Trichotillomania comes to mind if she's pulling out her eyebrow hairs due to being anxious - the onset generally occurs from 8/9 to 13/14 years old.

This is what I was thinking. I do this, and I wish I could stop. For me, it started around age 9, when the hormones started raging.

[Anonymous]

Now I am concerned. She is about to go to sleepover camp for a month. I hope she comes home with hair!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now I am concerned. She is about to go to sleepover camp for a month. I hope she comes home with hair!

Are you OP? You sound fucking stupid.

[Anonymous]

My SIL's niece did the same thing to her eyebrows that you describe and within weeks had also pulled all of the hair from the first inch of her hairline at her forehead. Months later it was her arms.

Based on the above quote I don't think a parent would be stupid to be concerned about a month long camp absence...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Trichotillomania comes to mind if she's pulling out her eyebrow hairs due to being anxious - the onset generally occurs from 8/9 to 13/14 years old.

This is what I was thinking. I do this, and I wish I could stop. For me, it started around age 9, when the hormones started raging.

This is what it is. Please get her help to nip it in the bud or it could become a lifelong habit, not limited to her eyebrows. It is extremely difficult to stop once the habit becomes entrenched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Trichotillomania comes to mind if she's pulling out her eyebrow hairs due to being anxious - the onset generally occurs from 8/9 to 13/14 years old.

This is what I was thinking. I do this, and I wish I could stop. For me, it started around age 9, when the hormones started raging.

This is what it is. Please get her help to nip it in the bud or it could become a lifelong habit, not limited to her eyebrows. It is extremely difficult to stop once the habit becomes entrenched.

Oh for pete's sake... trichotillomania is when one pulls out one's hair compulsively, not giving oneself spontaneous eyebrow haircuts. OP, please don't panic about this. YOU know your child, none of us do. Are her grades ok? Her appetite? Friend group relatively stable? Is she expressing totally new anxieties or fears out of the blue? Sounds like totally normal 9-year old behavior to me - I shaved off half my eyebrows around age 10 or 11 because I had a vague impression that that's what ladies did. Your daughter is almost definitely doing the same kinds of experimenting.

[Anonymous]

Actually OP later said "She said she did not purposely trim them but tend to pull them at times when she is nervous"

If you had read the whole the whole thing you'd be more helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually OP later said "She said she did not purposely trim them but tend to pull them at times when she is nervous"

If you had read the whole the whole thing you'd be more helpful.

+1

[Anonymous]

My daughter did this too... but she was just playing with scissors on the first day of school and oops.

[Anonymous]

Wow..suprsied to see my old post come up after so long. Just to let you know..if was just a short ??? thing for her. Never happened again..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter did this too... but she was just playing with scissors on the first day of school and oops.

My DD who is now 11 did that at age 8 a few days before the start of school. I was alarmed and upset but most parents of older kids thought it was funny. I guess the joke was on me. I think it's a phase and a way to exert independence. Like OP, DD never did it again.

[Anonymous]

I cannot tell you guys just how appreciative i am of this forum. I had trichomania real bad as a child but until now i never knew that there was a name for it. I thought that somehow i was to blame.i only looked this up online because my daughter cut a bit of her eyebrow with her scissors out of pure boredom and was wondering if they will grow back. Plucking hairs and cutting them are complety different. I know first hand that if you pluck,,it will grow back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again.. I will give it a bit of time to see it phases out. But a squeeze ball would be my next try..before consulting someone professional. Thanks. I am now wondering how long it will take for them to look "normal" again so I will know she stopped. As I mentioned she has light hair so they are not prominent. She is not a generally anxious child..seems to be having a great summer at familiar camps...??

I'm sure they will grow back by the time summer is over.

[Anonymous]

How can you get the brows to grow back quickly?

[Anonymous]

She’s 9. Lighten up, take a couple cute photos for the scrapbook, and reminded her about this as you’re tearfully hugging goodbye for college.