This one kills me . . .

[pegkerr]

From an informational website about lice:

A few lice on the head should not cause alarm; rather, they present an opportunity for parents to spend the needed time with their children in order to find and remove the offending insects.

Wow. [sarcastic]When you put it that way, I am so glad we got lice. It all so perfectly calculated to lead to that special family togetherness time.[/sarcastic]

Comments

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Those clever lice. Here we thought they were just looking for someplace to multiply and take over the world. Little did we know they were on a sacred mission from the Bush Administration to heal our nation's fractured families and force all you horrible parents into taking a few precious minutes out of your selfish, overcrammed schedules and spend them grooming your kids like monkeys.

Who knew?

[cliosfolly.livejournal.com]

Remembering the occassion when I was a kid, I can definitely say I did not appreciate the additional togetherness with my mother. I was angryangryangry, especially when she threw away the stuffed elephant with which I slept. The last thing I wanted was to spend more time with her, that comb, that stinking nasty shampoo, and my head bent over the sink, getting cold, while my friends were outside having fun.

Alternative methods

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Canvassing the pediatricians around me at St. Paul Children's Clinic, the suggestions for resistant lice are as follows:

1. Elamite on hair with shower cap on top x45 min -- or use a stronger solution of promethrin, the active ingredient in Qwell...
2. Septra by mouth (I don't know why that would work, but some folks do use it)
3. Mayonnaise, which apparently is supposed to suffocate them out
4. Lindane, which doesn't have an FDA indication for kids

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

My sister-in-law said yesterday that they were told to use Hartz Flea-and-Tick shampoo -- only Hartz, and to be careful not to get it in the kids' eyes. They have a problem with lice a couple of times a year; the kids bring them home from school.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that why I felt like my parents weren't very affectionate or expressive toward me when I was a child? Because I never came home with lice?

Feh. Stupid fluffy bunny advice, meaning well but ultimately about as satisfying as a mouthful of pure sugar.

I'm sorry this has been going on so long for you, and hope for a speedy resolution. Poor Peg. Poor girls.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

I suspect they were concerned about parents overdosing their kids by using more Qwell more often, and so went to the opposite "oh, don't worry about it!" extreme. They also ignore the fact that having your school-age kids sent home for lice is hard on them and on working parents.

Pfeh. Evil Pollyannas.

[misia.livejournal.com]

Ptui. A friend of my mother's who is a mediator told me that she sometimes tries that tack with folks whose divorces she's mediating -- "don't think of it as a divorce, think of it as a time to work on your new, different relationship so that you will be able to be better friends later."

What bullpuckey.

[mle292.livejournal.com]

"Hey kids! Today we could go to the zoo or check each other for parasites - what do you want to do?"

"Yaaaaaay! Par-a-sites! Par-a-sites! Yaaaaay!"

I think that was depicted in a Norman Rockwell painting...

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Holy overoptimism, Batman!

(Sorry, I've always wanted to use that phrase.)

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Because of course the time you spend removing lice from your child's head is the best way you could possibly spend time with your child. *eyeroll*

[aome.livejournal.com]

I was an anthropology major in college. I suddenly have visions of you all hunkered down together like chimpanzees, doing social grooming. :-P

Clearly, whoever wrote that paragraph has been sniffing the anti-lice treatments a little too much.

[anemonerose.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm here to say that I, too, did not appreciate the extra time with my mother when my brother brought it home from school. His *entire* kindergarten class got it, thankyouverymuch. It was such a pain.

What morons. *rolls eyes*

[vass]

Bother. You got there first.

I wasn't an anthro major, but I did wonder if a chimp wrote that site.

[siriologist.livejournal.com]

Errr...wouldn't a game of scrabble be better?

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

This seems to imply that parents are spending so little time with their kids that not only would this raise the quantity, but it would count as quality time. Well, maybe it would for the writers of this idiocy . . .

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

Okay, there's seeing the glass as half full and there's just plain WEIRDNESS. Family togetherness? Good grief. I can think of a million better ways to achieve this.

Well, you know what they say... the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist half full, and the engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be...

[whapnoggin.livejournal.com]

I like the way that the writer distinguished "a few lice on the head" from, presumably, a full-blown infestation.