A couple of weeks ago, N brought home a letter from school alerting us that someone in the first grade had head lice. Just reading the letter made my head itch. Somehow, we've managed to get both boys through a few years of school now without any infestations. Frankly, I'm a little amazed N hasn't caught something. He and his friends are big fans of dressing up in various costumes, most of which include hats.
When we got the letter, we asked N about it. He said everyone had to get checked. The conversation went something like this:
Me: "So, you got checked at school?"
N: "Yeah, they checked us - three people at a time."
Me: "Who did you get checked with?"
N: "Talia and Frances."
Me: "And none of you had head lice?"
N: "Dad, nobody in our whole class had head lice."
Me: "Oh, well that's a good thing."
N: "Yeah, but Danny had to go home and get a haircut." (Pause) "It's kind of weird. My hair is longer than Danny's, but they didn't make me get mine cut."
Anyway, just typing this makes my head itch.
2 comments:
Ha! I love reading those conversations. Brings me back to the day when I lived with you guys. :)
The kindergarten at my school has been struggling with lice the last couple of weeks. One of the students who had lice had two siblings in other grades so those grades had issues too. My class was safe since we are rarely with the other students in the school. Even so, my head started itching when I heard about it. K,R,and N never had lice so we dodged that bullet. Good luck. Melody
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