6 year old eating her hair!!!

[footiefan]

Hi all

Am having a battle of wits with my 6year old daughter at the moment.

She is constantly eating her hair!! - pick her up from the after school club every nite and you could wring it out!!!

Still too short to put it up in pigtails etc - can only get a hairband in it.

Any suggestions on how to stop her??

Hairdresser has even had a word with her but to no avail!!

[lil75]

Hmm thats difficult, how about a headband to keep it away from her face, or you could pretend to put a little hairspray on it and tell her if she eats it it will taste very yucky? Kids eh!!!

[aims1202]

For some reason some kids this age want to chew, my 6yr son chews his sleeve and i see them in his class doing it! I tried giving him something else to chew on so he didnt ruin his clothes, it was a piece of ribbon and it did work until he went to school with it and they took it off him!
If i tell him to stop he does it just as much so now if i see him doing i take it out if his mouth without saying anything, I dont think he even realises he's doing it most if the time and this seems to be working so far.
I actually remember being shouted at by a teacher at infants school for chewing my pig tails, she said she would cut them off, how horrible they were back then!!