tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post5780800075989989820..comments2009-07-19T12:36:04.375-04:00Josette at Halushkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790825543155685363noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-41069818630691375562009-07-19T12:36:04.375-04:002009-07-19T12:36:04.375-04:00when i was a kid my best friend got lice and i know how hard the other kids were on him. totally unfair. we both had good hygiene, but that didn&#39;t seem to matter.Hmcarterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02245146434423154422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-30383409964461685732009-04-24T10:49:00.000-04:002009-04-24T10:49:00.000-04:00Thanks You...<br /><A HREF="http://www.marmaracambalkon.com" REL="nofollow">cam balkon</A>sibelimssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05513709637877453335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-20710357285560613852009-04-16T12:55:00.000-04:002009-04-16T12:55:00.000-04:00You are hilarious. I love that cartoon. If you ever want to work together I would be honored. drewg@webmerchantsinc.comDrew Ghttp://www.edenfantasys.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-74014890973830243062009-03-23T20:22:00.000-04:002009-03-23T20:22:00.000-04:00My head is now itching.<BR/><BR/>peace<BR/>#2sista #2http://menapausalmama.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-14988302076085402502009-03-23T15:06:00.000-04:002009-03-23T15:06:00.000-04:00I do hope I never have to deal with this.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786127130691625566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-78776129010615186542009-03-23T14:01:00.000-04:002009-03-23T14:01:00.000-04:00After 13 years of cooty-free parenting, we finlly went through this last month (see http://soupisnotafingerfood.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/nitpicky/) and now I hear there's yet another wave of them overtaking the 5th grade. And my kid rarely wears his bike helmet (despite my attempts at vigilance), let alone would borrow someone else's, and I have to <I>bug</I> (sorry, heh heh) him to bathe and shampoo. <BR/><BR/>It did not seem that anyone in our school was really flipping out about this, other than the knee-jerk "oh what a pain in the ass" reaction.Meg @ Soup Is Not A Finger Foodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01226110990838922422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-1035744537947128062009-03-23T12:58:00.000-04:002009-03-23T12:58:00.000-04:00well, anyway, thanks for the bloggy visit, you're funny! gotta add you to the list...Gary Rith Pottery Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07113249576164428106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-5058805793170762009-03-23T10:40:00.000-04:002009-03-23T10:40:00.000-04:00Shortly after you posted this, our local paper ran an article over the controversial no nit policy at one of the local school systems. And that even though it goes against the state lice policy, they weren't going to change it. The school nurses felt that they could the control the outbreaks better if the kids could not come back to school until they were completely free of louse and nit. So obviously it's going around. Knock on wood, we haven't had to deal with it yet.kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973359359954974773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-35005147908889222162009-03-21T12:59:00.000-04:002009-03-21T12:59:00.000-04:00I had cooties--er, lice--as a child, and I don't remember it being a big deal. Then again, I had fleas on a regular basis, too, because I would pick them off the dog and drop them next to me on the carpet (yes, I was a special child). I am trying to go with the general vibe of being open about this stuff, LOL.<BR/><BR/>And AMEN about bike helmets. I never really believed in them until a few months ago when I saw a bike rider who had been hit by a car with his helmet literally wedged between the tire and the road. By the time I parked and got out to see if he needed help, he was walking around, carrying his helmet. Like holy cow. Holy cow.Katie Alenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17210222751354931694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-6050744767600460862009-03-21T09:58:00.000-04:002009-03-21T09:58:00.000-04:00Circle-circle, dot-dot.....<BR/><BR/>That ought to do it. And no Copay. <BR/><BR/>I can remember, with much fondness, my father allowing me to ride from my grandparents house to our house in the back of the Pickup. <BR/><BR/>It was a fifty mile trip.<BR/><BR/>I was 10.<BR/><BR/>Awesome.cIIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02758912891421225305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-1849557481283035952009-03-20T21:58:00.000-04:002009-03-20T21:58:00.000-04:00Oh my God CLACKERS. I was just thinking about them--basically, nunchucks for young children. I had a red pair.Denisehttp://wanderingbarque.com/everfixedmark/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-71780897257490048522009-03-20T14:02:00.000-04:002009-03-20T14:02:00.000-04:00I have so lived through this. <BR/><BR/>My children were the ones with the clean, shiny hair that attracted lice for a month straight in 1996. I still can't talk about it too much.Jenn @ Juggling Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14455967210924573398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-79864500145455543322009-03-19T23:51:00.000-04:002009-03-19T23:51:00.000-04:00Last summer C was planning on having a friend of his spend the night until his friends mom called totally mortified... his friend had cooties and she figured they were gone (of course they were- she shaved his head) but wanted to let me know "just in case" and told me she completely understood if I wanted to plan on a different night. I appreciated the phone call but told her to plan on it. His friend spent the night, they had an awesome time, and C never got cooties. <BR/>Parents don't need to be snooty about it- it could just as easily be their kid.Sammanthiahttp://myacuprunnethover.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-65036871107681911912009-03-19T21:35:00.000-04:002009-03-19T21:35:00.000-04:00Hmm. You think you got problems? Try dealing with lice on an angora goat. There's NO comb gonna go through that forest.<BR/><BR/>On the bright side, those cooties are species specific so other than the initial "Itch and Obsess" phase after shearing, no worries.annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01306851407588054538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-63134825750553099092009-03-19T20:42:00.000-04:002009-03-19T20:42:00.000-04:00I just did the drill last night - head checks - because our school's official policy is a no tell policy. We're on our own, told to do checks twice a week.<BR/><BR/>Can I say it's not working?<BR/><BR/>I guess I figured that we would be told if there was a problem in class, anonymously, of course, but I didn't pay it any mind until we had a nice case last year, between my kids' birthdays and right before our trip to Disneyland.<BR/><BR/>Woohoo! Fun times.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I outed ourselves to all our friends - so embarrassing - and did head checks for friends who weren't sure what to look for.<BR/><BR/>Now I am rambling and itchy.<BR/><BR/>Just wanted to say I loved this post.Lisa Wheeler Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386193798727387546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-25792024317958364182009-03-19T20:09:00.000-04:002009-03-19T20:09:00.000-04:00Have not had to contend with lice - as a child myself, or with my own children. But I see no reason to shame anyone for having them (or for having kids who've got them).<BR/><BR/>What this topic needs (along with so many other hush-hush topics) is some matter-of-fact discussion, just like you've presented here.mothergoosemousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05386446012443269817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-79521656611627467462009-03-19T14:56:00.000-04:002009-03-19T14:56:00.000-04:00Been there, done that. Awful, for sure, but not terminal.<BR/><BR/>The THings' elementary school was overrun with them several years ago. Took MONTHS to get everyone eradicated. Gah!tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351692108818152561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-42788555048251593072009-03-19T12:24:00.000-04:002009-03-19T12:24:00.000-04:00Headlice seem to be a winter rite of passage around here. Phone calls from moms, or those info sheets that come home from the school reading "There has been a case of headlice reported in Mme. So and so's class" are greeted with thanks, and some heavy sighs and then the pulling out of the vacuum and the firing up of the washing machine. At least in my daughters' social circles, there doesn't seem to be a stigma attached.alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16483907412532940799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-27942971066983066392009-03-19T12:12:00.000-04:002009-03-19T12:12:00.000-04:00I feel like I am tempting fate by commenting about this because we have never *knock on wood* had cooties (also because I recall commenting on your rabies post and WE DID have to go though that treatment). But you're right - we need to deal with this like adults and kick the shame away. <BR/><BR/>And now? My head itches.Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14084242509519566587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-43518419442421104052009-03-19T11:13:00.000-04:002009-03-19T11:13:00.000-04:00I had 'em as a kid and it was a nightmare. I remember how horribly that fine-toothed comb hurt my head. Emily got them when she was about 3 years old. That baby-fine medium-brown hair is apparently (according to the pediatrician...the third time we went back to see him for the same recurring infestation) the hardest to deal with lice in. Matthew got them about a month ago. I got the school nurse phone call. Discovered that on boy heads, it's no big deal at all. *whew* My sympathies.Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948339436308804384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-15419216090324705692009-03-19T11:10:00.000-04:002009-03-19T11:10:00.000-04:00I've had a few friends 'admit' that their kids had lice and I was surprised to hear how many kids get it. In school, there is only one girl I knew to have it and that poor thing was never the same. She suffered mightily and much more from the aftermath than the bugs themselves.<BR/><BR/>By the way, clackers were my FAVORITE childhood toy ever. Just loved those silly things.Fairly Odd Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11974404093257620566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-86897504726556341202009-03-19T10:24:00.000-04:002009-03-19T10:24:00.000-04:00Never had cooties but I did have one of those incredibly fun Clacker things. I'm assuming you don't see them around because someone put an eye out. And yet? We still have scissors! So unfair :(IzzyMomhttp://izzymom.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-35551941892424180642009-03-19T09:31:00.000-04:002009-03-19T09:31:00.000-04:00I had the cooties in 8th grade. My brother brought them home from baseball (by sharing helmets, BA, so you are so very right to not let your boys do it). It was a harrowing process of fine-tooth combing, various OTC and prescription shampoos, boiling of brushes, discarding of pillows, etc. NOT fun for the whole family. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for getting the word out that it's actually the cooties who are the "snooties", since they prefer the cleaner humans. It's kind of a badge of cleanliness really.Apryl's Anticsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-81884022968043485592009-03-18T23:48:00.000-04:002009-03-18T23:48:00.000-04:00No, no, no, no, no...I don't think it's snooty to be practical. It's one of the reasons that I drill into my girls (and scouts) to keep hair braided (for lots of good reasons.) I do think some people are snooty when they think that they are a better class of human being because they happen to have had the privilege of knowledge and/or good luck.<BR/><BR/>And to be very clear, if I don't share a bike helmet, it's the same as me not sharing a handkerchief. It's not so much about what the other person might "have"; it's just as good manners to not share what I might have. I understand that this could come across as snooty, but I think a candid and gracious explanation that it's for their own benefit as mine can be made. Well...at least in a perfect world. ;-)Jozet at Halushkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790825543155685363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10673240.post-18456347525071860612009-03-18T23:38:00.000-04:002009-03-18T23:38:00.000-04:00Some people think I'm being snooty when I won't let other kids wear my boys' batting helmets. (they're airbrushed and everybody thinks they're cool) But my mom was a hairdresser and I have seen cootie horrors that will follow me to my grave. She drilled it into us never, ever to share combs, hats, or any kind of headgear with other kids. <BR/><BR/>We, so far have dodged this bullett, but I am under no illusions as to why. It's been sheer, dumb luck. And sooner or later, that luck will run out. <BR/><BR/>Cooties do not discriminate.Blog Antagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378330862349859998noreply@blogger.com