That's awful. You must feel awful. But you've been doing all the right things, and that guest might have caught it at school or something had your girls been free of them.
After all, your kids didn't create lice; they caught them from someone else, too.
Don't feel so bad. Best advice? Take the afflicted a nice basket of something for the kid and something nice for the mum. Cookies and a video, chocolates, Xanax... you know?
Kids catch this stuff from each other, it just happens - it's the Circle of Lice. *cue bad Disney theme*
Justin Bennage (notice how i still remember his name 18 years later) managed to infect most of our second grade class with chicken pox right before Xmas break. Now there's a mom who should have felt guilty. ;)
It's a pretty safe bet, I'm afraid. since Delia sat next to her on the couch during the movie and slept next to her on the floor. There was a good deal of goodnatured romping around and roughhousing during the party. And the girl started showing signs of lice a few days after the party.
No, lice don't come with return addresses. I wish, because if they did, I'd ship 'em all back to where we got them from.
I'll second this suggestion, seems like a really good idea to me. Lice do seem to just be one of those things that are inevitable at some point in childhood.
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Date: 2004-04-06 09:25 pm (UTC)After all, your kids didn't create lice; they caught them from someone else, too.
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Date: 2004-04-06 09:29 pm (UTC)Kids catch this stuff from each other, it just happens - it's the Circle of Lice. *cue bad Disney theme*
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Date: 2004-04-06 10:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-07 12:40 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2004-04-07 05:50 am (UTC)No, lice don't come with return addresses. I wish, because if they did, I'd ship 'em all back to where we got them from.
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Date: 2004-04-07 07:28 am (UTC)D00d... having headlice at some point is like a childhood rite of passage.
Anyway... they go for clean, healthy hair. I'm sure the parent/s of the kid doesn't/don't think any less of you... and if they do... meh. *rolls eyes*
~Jess
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Date: 2004-04-07 08:44 am (UTC)My mother *did* feel really guilty.
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Date: 2004-04-07 08:45 am (UTC)