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[quote=Anonymous]Dear OP,

I hated, hated, hated (I still get upset when I think about it) having my hair washed and I am now 47 and still remember being just like your daughter at her age!  This debacle started for two reasons.  1) I have an extremely "tender head" (combing and brushing my hair when I was a child was akin to the most visceral pain I can remember).  I now understand some of why I had that pain (it's neurological and I doubt your daughter has this weird thing I have with health), but that was thing one -- it always mean additional combing and brushing.

Much more to the point and probably pretty likely:  when I was 4, I got a horrid ear infection that for some reason I associated with washing my hair.  I believe it's because I got water in my ear during a shampoo and associated the feeling with the ear infection.  I was out of school for a month and was pretty miserable physically and emotionally (my mom was ill, so home was no fun), and I got it into my four-year-old head that washing hair=wet ear= ear infection=hell.

My suggestions are these:  
first, ask your daughter (in a calm way when you're not getting ready for shampooing or bathing or anything else, why she hates having her hair washed.
be sure you get her a shampoo that has a detangler built in (Suave is an example)-if at all possible, let her choose the shampoo
if you haven't already, try doing the hair washing in the shower (less likely to get water in her ears)
take her to the beauty parlor and let a pro do it while she's sitting in the "big girl chair" and then, when you're at home, mimic that for a couple of shampoos (this worked for DC, who while not a shampoo terror, used to prefer much anything to hair washing)
finally, if all else fails, there are dry shampoos that you can use sometimes -- while you're waiting to take her to the pediatrician (because you really do need to make sure there's nothing in the ears or anything else physical going on)

Hope some of this helps

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