Comments on: Lice Here. Questions?

By: Wacky treatments

Wacky treatments — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:44:33 +0000

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Take care everyone

By: WackyMommy

WackyMommy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:42:36 +0000

Mamatoo — Heh heh heh.

And everyone — thanks for the kind words and advice. Much, much appreciated.

By: mamatoo

mamatoo — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:19:29 +0000

you (and your wacky family) are loved, my dear, lice and all! Homeschooling sounds fun at your place – mind if I send my kids to you instead of enrolling them at PPS?

By: LIB

LIB — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:04:25 +0000

Oh, WM! I feel your pain!

When my daughters were 5 and 8, the younger one went to before- and after-school care. At the daycare they checked heads and if a child had lice, didn’t let them beyond the front counter. One day I got the dreaded call at work, from the daycare about my youngest having lice.

I left work, picked her up and then checked my 8 year old. At the time, she was wearing those stretchy, fabric headbands. When I took the headband off I found that MILLIONS OF NITS had been hiding under there. I. FREAKED. OUT. I felt like the WORLD”‘S WORST MOM. I spend the rest of the evening nit picking and beginning the laundry/bagging/vacuuming chores. I took the next day off work to do more laundry/bagging/vacuuming.

When I first read the title of you post, I thought YOU PERSONALLY had lice. When we had our lice infestation even though I had no signs, I still shampooed with RID.

I’m getting itchy just thinking about it. Will someone come over and check my scalp?

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:44:54 +0000

Rubik’s cube, not Rubik’c cube. I should never type before I have my morning tea.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:44:22 +0000

Rubik’c cube, not Rubuk’s cube. I can’t even get that right.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:43:26 +0000

You have to go to the PPS site and look up lice. They have a “content standards for health education” rubric
that explains that the benchmark for third graders in this area is to:
Identify behaviors that
transmit communicable
diseases such as:
! colds/flu
! hepatitis
! impetigo
! lice infestation
! ringworm

So next year when your girl is in 3rd grade she will be working towards her !lice benchmark. They don’t have that in 2nd grade, although I think they do study insects for their science benchmarks.

Are you reassured to know there is a rubric about lice infestation and it’s part of an administrative directive? Who writes this gobbledygook anyway? I forgot. Highly paid adminstrators do.

When I was on site council I kept saying Rubik (as in Rubuk’s cube) instead of rubric. This did not endear me to the administrator and one of the other parents who took those rubric charts VERY seriously.

By: WackyMommy

WackyMommy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:32:21 +0000

Anne, no baggy dresses? Damn.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:40:13 +0000

Good for you for raising hell, Wacky Mommy. The PPS lice policy SUCKS, to coin a phrase. Who thought that stupid stupid idea about 3 or more kids in one classroom before any notification or prevention takes place–the makers of RID?
Portland Public School District administrators and those nurses from Multnomah Educational Service District should be doing your laundry and vacuuming your furniture. I had to do the same thing: raise hell, then keep my girl out of school, when multiple kids in my daughter’s class had lice.
It catapulted me into homeschooling which was a good thing. It is now two years later and we are still homeschooling. I still remember the homeschooling/lice avoidance day when we made a toad garden in our yard. It was a magical day. We have had many more. And no I don’t have chickens and I don’t wear baggy denim dresses. And I still swear a lot just like I did when I was a PPS mom.
It is a great sign that the other three family members do not have lice. You are a good mom. I am beginning to think if they don’t call you paranoid and negative you are not doing your job.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:42:23 +0000

Oh.My.God. This is my worst nightmare. If my son came home with lice I would just give up, throw in the towel, head for the hills. He has such unpredictable sensory issues that the mere thought of trying to delouse him sends me for the pinot gris.
Found you from the other Jen here. :)