Growing Out Bangs- How Long Does It Take?

This is my house too and I was wondering the same thing! My daughter is 6 and she wants to grow her bangs out - they are just below her eyebrow now, but not yet in her eyes. Great suggestions and thanks for asking!

I've been growing my 4 year old's bangs out for a few months now and they are just below her nose. I get those see-through tiny plastic hairbands and just pull her bangs back into a bang "ponytail" it looks really cute and she can wear the rest of her hair down.

It depends on the hair...I'm trying to convince my daughter to finish letting hers grow out...they're just past her nose right now...she clips them back or we use those little mini rubberbands...sometimes she uses a headband...but those drive me nuts too :p. Her hair grows faster than mine does. With my daughter it's a rule that if she's going to be doing anything remotely physical, she has to have her bangs back...for safety reasons. I don't want her running and playing and constantly having them in her eyes. I don't know that she'd really get hurt bad or anything...but it motivates her...and you never know! :) Good luck!
(It's probably taken her a good 4 months or so? maybe give or take a month? to get them from short bangs to past her nose...I don't really remember the last time we trimmed them...but they're to the point now that it's pretty easy to get them out of the way :p)

the last hair cut i got i had them do the sidebangs thing and they were just short enough that they didnt stay behind my ears so i would grab them pull them back n clip them at the top of my head n then grab the rest n throw it in a pony tail... when i did grow out my bangs a long time ago they seemed to grow so fast but then once they got to the point where they just didnt reach my ears it seemd like they grew so slow.. i guess cuz its annoying when your constantly pushing them back behind your ear n they keep falling.. when i wore my hair down when i blow dried them i would blow dry them more towards the back then to the side so that they didnt have as much of a tendency to fall in my eyes.. headbands are probably the easiest way to go though

We did this w/ out daughter. It took about a year for her eyebrow-length hair to get to her ears. Now it's almost all completely one length and long. I hear you on the barrettes; my daughter isn't a fan, either. So I did a lot of small ponies where I gathered the bangs up in a little pony tail right above her forehead and it would lay back and down the back once it got long enough.

But you're right, the bangs were in the way for quite awhile. Now my daughter's best friend has cut bangs and my daughter wants them again to be just like her friend. I've flat-out said 'no' because first of all, she has wavy hair now and wavy bangs above the eyebrows just don't work. Second of all, it was a pain in the neck to grow those things out and third of all, I told her, "trust me, in another year you'll thank me!!

It will take a long time to grow out bangs (average is that hair grows a half inch a month. For some, it will grow faster, others, slower). If it were my kids and they didn't want to fuss with their hair, keep cutting bangs and keep it simple. They need to be able to see. If they won't wear their hair up in a headband or clips, this is the default.:)

I suggest headbands and crown braids or braid head bands. Bangs take a while for a few reasons - many people start growing them out - get annoyed and cut them again. When I grew mine out I cut my hair in the front with layers so they blended.

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then just keep framing her face nicely as it grows out.

My daughter kind of enjoyed hiding behind it for a while. :)

Really the only tough spot is where it is long enough to annoy but too short to tuck behind the ears. It only lasts about a month.