eyelash

Ericka Kammerer wrote:
Stephanie wrote:
Narelle wrote:

My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was
that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls".
They grew back fine, and she never did it again.

The weird thing is that she genuinely does not seem to know what
happened.

I dunno. At 4yo, magical thinking still applies: if
I *want* not to have done it badly enough, I really didn't do it.
They can be utterly convincing and totally false all at the same
time ;-) After her grandparents made a fuss, she may have heartily
wished she hadn't done it and decided to go with that theory, even
if normally she wouldn't have lied about something like that.

Best wishes,
Ericka


That is what I think. Which is fine. My ONLY worry is that there is someone
who is sticking scissors near her eyes and may attempt to repeat the
process.

Stephanie wrote:
Ericka Kammerer wrote:
Stephanie wrote:
Narelle wrote:
My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was
that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls".
They grew back fine, and she never did it again.
The weird thing is that she genuinely does not seem to know what
happened.
I dunno. At 4yo, magical thinking still applies: if
I *want* not to have done it badly enough, I really didn't do it.
They can be utterly convincing and totally false all at the same
time ;-) After her grandparents made a fuss, she may have heartily
wished she hadn't done it and decided to go with that theory, even
if normally she wouldn't have lied about something like that.

That is what I think. Which is fine. My ONLY worry is that there is someone
who is sticking scissors near her eyes and may attempt to repeat the
process.

You know her the best, but if it were *my* DD, if
someone else had done it, she'd likely be ratting them out
in no time flat ;-)

Best wishes,
Ericka

"Stephanie" wrote in message
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My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed it. My
MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her about it. She
told them a bunch of stuff, none of it sounds terribly real. MIL and FIL
are convinced that they were cut. (That is scary to me that someone might
have cut her eyelashes. But it is hard for me to imagine who would have
the opportinuty to do such a thing.) I wonder if she pulled them out? She
has her fingers on her eyes all the time, kinda like a tick. She does
pinch them.

Well, I do know that my mom and her friends believed that long eyelashes wee
the most beautiful thing and they also believed that cutting a baby's
eyelashes would grow them longer, so they cut them.. Well, my mom was too
scared to, so she thought that's why mine are so short. Her friend did, and
that's why my mom thinks her friend's child's lashers were so long. It's a
cultural thing, so if they are not from such a culture, the adults probably
didn't cut them.

I know DD did go through a phase where she was obsessed with her eyelashes,
touching them, poking them, pulling them, etc.