my brother, being fifteen now, would probably not like me refering to him as a child, but he's so tiny and I always do (that's what I tell people, anyway, in tryth it's because he's still my baby brother)

Anyway, he has had the same haircut his entire life, shaved at the back (a number four, I think) then is is combed out from the middle and cit straight across his eyebrown and like that all the way around.
I'm not sure what its called, bowel cut?

Anyway, he has fine straight whit-blond hair.  and when I say straight, I mean dead straight, or it was.  six months ago the hairdresser told him it would go curley, and he laughed.  three months ago he woke up with curls.  Yes, I mean this literally.  Not need little curls either, unrulery ones that are wispey, go everywhere and leave his fringe looking like this silly croocked tuff.

we were at a loss of what to do, he had it thined out on the top and wants to grow the back more, but it still looks like he hasn't combed his hair for a few weeks.  We could get him something to straighten it, but he's decided to become quite fond of what we call 'the perm'

Are there any ideas of what we could to to contain the hair, like something to define the curls?  How good are the 'curl defining shampoos'?  would they work on wispey hair that just grows everywhere?

he's growing it longer in the back which would hopefully fix things a little bit.  He can't grow it too long as his school has rules about how long the boys can grow their hair.

if he wanted it short, he'd look real cute if he'd use some jel and put it a bit spikey, but he doesn't want to do that.

I'm thinking if he lost the fringe it might not be so bad.

But why did his hair do this? its not just the length of the hair, its the way it grows, it used to grow in place, now it just grows everywhere!  Like Harry Potter (in the book, not the movies)  And I get sick of seeing him spen half an hour infromt of the mirror every morning combing his hair, twisting it to try and make the curls more curl-like rather than each individual hair having its own curl.

we'll see how it goes, maybe look for a barber like you said.

and what I said about 'the perm', thats what we call him now.  His old name was shrimp, but then he started to grow... and so now its 'the perm', only in the family though, we don't enbarse him in public or infromt of his friends!. 

Thanks for your reply though!