Ex Son in Law’s girlfriend dyed the children’s hair!!!!

I, for one would be fuming if a girlfriend dyed my Gc's hair and my Dd would hit the roof.
You just don't mess with other people's kids.
My Dgs went to a birthday party, someone decided it would be a good idea to put face paint on him, without asking his Mum.
He had a reaction to it and his face was a mess.
Some people just don't think!

Exactly what an irresponsible younger gf might do to entertain her bf's kids.
There have been previous threads in the past about unwanted hair cuts, sometimes by NR dads.
It happens.

A GN I know, and her DD, were incensed regularly. The GC would come back from a day out having been bathed and dressed in different clothes with her vest missing.

My SIL was /is a hairdresser of dubious ability , she (unasked ) cut my 6yr old sons hair , leaving him with a slanting fringe ! I hit the roof and it set the tone for relations since

Good heavens that naughty step is very crowded today! Mind if I squeeze past to get to the loo? ?

So, trying to widen the debate, clearly this thread was never about hair dye. Its about what is an acceptable thing for a newish girlfriend (not stepmum) to do to someone else’s children. I think dying their hair is crossing the line. Most of you think thats fine. What would be crossing the line for your own grandchildren?

Maggiemaybe - if we had an award system for comment of the day, say we could Like a comment and a computer could add up the number of Likes and award the comment maker with say, a well, fancy that, we do have such a system because the appeared, as if by magic.

Naughty steps getting har£on my bum ???

Gosh. Why bother reading some posts. Come on GN there must be a better way of dealing with this.

Oh dear, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many grans in the naughty corner! I shall keep my mouth firmly zipped.

To use stuff like that on little ones could bring about all kinds of reactions , rashes, allergies etc as on the head it absorbs into the scalp. Their scalps are sensitive at that age. " Some mothers do 'ave 'em ".

A lot of so-called child friendly products turn out not to be child friendly unless they're tried and tested in this country.

The 7yr old is likely to start getting invited to pamper parties/sleepovers soon too with hair chalk and glitter tattoos etc and they tend to be in term time weekends so even less time to wash it out!

The stepmum was sensible to do it at at the start of the hols...

I'm with you . ProudNanna I would be hopping mad.

So now you're not allowed to say whether or not you are taking a thread seriously?

Seriously??

*Granny28 read the thread before commenting one child is 2 years old
The children didn’t do it themselves*
2 year olds enjoy being included & imitating big siblings. The big sibling might have asked for it OR the adults bought it as a pressie, its not unusual.

Regardless the children were their father's responsibility while visiting him and he appears to be fine with it.

I think it's exactly the type of thing a younger girlfriend might do, possibly because she thought the children would like it and probably because she knew it would annoy their mother. I don't see anything odd in the OP at all. If I was ProudNanna I would be extremely annoyed as well.

It’s very common for children to put coloured streaks in their hair during the holidays
Granny28 read the thread before commenting one child is 2 years old
The children didn’t do it themselves, according to Poster a ‘floozy’ did it
Still find it perfectly believable ?

I see no reason to doubt the veracity of this post. It is very common for children to put coloured streaks in their hair or apply nail varnish during the holidays.

Last Christmas, after I had admired my 2 DGD's streaks, they gave me a set of small pots of the chalky stuff and on Christmas day applied same to my hair until I looked like a Steven Brown Coo. Washed it on Boxing Day and all but the blue disappeared, but I was left with the blue streak until it grew out.

PS, My blue fringe was much admired by my friends - I was even asked which hairdresser did it

Proud Nanna Hope the powder washes out soon. Please shrug this off and don't let this incident become a long running feud with their Dad.

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Ignore it. Its between your daughter and ex sil!

I am, Bluebelle!

ProudNanna if I go round there do you think she'll dye mine?
I fancy lilac, perhaps she could mix the blue and pink innit?

3rd in my area..not soon enough! ???

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When I decided to stop dyeing my hair I wanted the old semi-permanent dye out asap so I googled the best ways of removing or fading hair dye. The best ones were Head and Shoulders shampoo or ,even better, cheap shaving foam applied to the hair and left on for 10 mins or so before washing out. Worked for me.

Proudnanna I am with you. The younger children will not have had any opinion on what was done to her hair.

Assuming your daughter has custody, she could go to a solicitor. On the other hand it could have been done deliberately to annoy and as an exercise of power. Your DD needs to think carefully about her response. Again legal advice might help.