A few weeks ago we took our 5 year old son for a haircut (I had to get on too). In the past his mom would always sit in the chair next to me and we would get out haircuts together. This worked pretty well, but he did squirm a lot. But the last time we tried this it was complete failure and he is getting bigger and stronger, so a few time he kicked my wife pretty hard while she was trying to him so we had to seek an alternative. Well, we spent two days telling him he is going to get a haircut this weekend and he seemed almost anxious to go by the time the weekend got there. Well, once we got there and were called back and I st down and got mine started, he wanted nothing to do with it. He melted down so bad, my wife took him to the car and waited out there while I got mine done. We tried the bribery method of telling him, if he got his haircut we would take him for his favorite lunch, Chinese Rice. Still did not work so we were headed home, over half way there he quietly whispered, "get my haircut like daddy's". We asked him to repeat what he said and sure enough we got the same thing, "get my haircut like daddy's". Well, we did not want to turn around and go all the way back, so we headed to a place closer to the house, which also happened to be close to his favorite Chinese Rice. He got up chair, and got his haircut. But it would have broken your heart to watch it. This was one of those times where youcould tell it was taking every bit of courage the little guy had. When the cliippers would come out, he hated the noise and would cover his ears and bury his chin down in his chest and haunch his shoulders so the stylist could not trim around his ears. He would stay like this for a few minutes and we would be encourage him to lift his head cause he was almost done. He would slowly raise his head, lower his shoulders, and uncover his ears. We would offer to let us hold him so we could comfort him, but he would just say in a whispeer "get my haircut like daddy's" and push us away. After a minute or less of clipping the whole process would start over again. Eventually after several cycles of this his haircut was complete. God Bless the patience of that hairstylist (she has earned all of our business from now on). We did take him for his favorite Chinese rice afterwards. It made us so proud to see him want to do it on his own even though it had to be very hard for him.