The Not Happy Thread

I was thinking the same thing - to be safe your daughter will have to be off for at least a week which seems excessive for something that while unpleasant really is just usually an itchy head and few bites at worse. The shampoo allows you to send her in and unlikely to affect anyone else.

I have more issue with parents that send kids in with colds than nits.

 

Just throwing it out there, but schools tend to have a policy that kids with lice have to stay home for a day whilst they treat it. Yes, it takes multiple treatments throughout the week to get rid of them completely, but they don't take the risk.

Which is surprising, because there were kids who had major headlice problems at my school, and the teachers didn't even approach the parents about it. I remember myself and my friends catching lice off a girl at school - repeatedly- because her parents never treated it. It was awful. Thinking back on it now, that girl had a pretty abusive childhood...Some parents just couldn't give a crap. Not clearing up the headlice and letting her (and others) suffer was just the start of it.

 

^ That's horrible.

 

Oh, I know the whole experience. I haven't suffered from lice, but my older sister and brother did when they were really little. And my poor mother, she tried so hard for weeks to get rid of the vermin. After like a month she was able to pluck the last miniscule egg from the very root of a hair shaft of my older brother. The little darn things are like evil.

 

When I was in elementary, whenever we had a breakout of lice, the whole campus would queue up, one class at a time, and undergo this horrendous, nerve-wrecking lice check-up procedure with the school nurse (and her rubber gloves and comb), who would then quarantine all the kids with lice and send them home for the day with medication. Not a word would be said of the matter out of fear of exposing the poor children to censure, even though we could always guess who had the "cooties" just by counting the missing heads. :/

 

Sorry you are ill, hidden! Thanks, she was able to go back today, but then she hurt her neck yesterday, so has to have another day off school.

I did her hair as soon as I saw the lice. which was quickly pulled out and killed mind you. But you aren't permitted to go to school until the following day after treatment.

It's hard work when you have a break out. Thank fully, she only had one adult and 1 egg in her hair.

They aren't allowed to do that here. If they notice a child scratching, they glance over the top of the head and phone the parents to come collect them. THey aren't allowed to actually look for lice.

Yes, you are right. There are a few children at Mason's last school that ALWAYS had lice. It's horrible, because it isn't a nice feeling for the kids having an itchy head all the time. I treated my daughters hair straight away, and will do it as the label says to treat it, even though she only had one lice and one egg. I spent the entire day going through her hair. I'm very particular about my daughters hair. We were all treated, and she was the only one infected, and that's where a lot go wrong, they only treat the infected, not everyone, or change bedding.

THey only ask you to keep them off 1 day here, or til they are treated. Amity has been treated twice yesterday and has a spray in her hair to deter them. We also put gel in her hair. She has none in there, she has had me check her hair for 2 hours already today for anything. Her head is clear.

As for parents sending sick children to school, it makes me furious, as my daughter has a lung problem and she is constantly coming down ill because or irresponsible parents. I had a go at one mum who was commended on her daughter never missing a day of school, and the child was given a certificate. She had also come to school that year with a sever cold and had snot running down her face for about 3 weeks, came to school with a very nasty cough, came to school and vomited over my baby carrier at one point, and yes, she was rewarded for this... makes me hate other parents. My oldest sister is the same, she sends her kids to school when they are ill and will bring them around to visit as well. ARGH!

 

Tor I'm sorry abut poor little Amity. I hope you can get the buggies away soon!

I have concert hangover. It was my first time in a real mosh pit and between the pot smoke, cigarette smoke, and everything else, I've just got a bad headache and my throat hurts and my legs are sore.

But the concert was amazing.

 

I always thought that perfect attendance awards were a terrible idea. It's all well and good, having good attendance and not skipping school or work for stupid reasons, but if you're sick, there's no honor in forcing yourself to go and making everyone else sick, too. Ugh.

 

I'm sorry you're going through this, and I don't know if you already know this or not, but using shampoo and conditioner that contains coconut oil is actually a very effective deterrent for head lice if there is a problem with them in your childs school. My sister had the same problem you're having and since she's started using it for her kids they haven't had an outbreak in 2 years (her neighbors kids seem to have them every month). It may be worth a shot for you?

 

Love sucks. Even having a crush sucks. If it's not working in your favor, it sucks. Ugh. I hate feeling neglected, and more than anything, I hate, HATE feeling jealous. And I shouldn't even be jealous. I don't know why I care. But I do, which makes me feel like a total freak. And why don't I care about being neglected as much as I do about being jealous? No clue. Efffffffff.

End mini rant.

 

*Hugs* You should never have to feel neglected. I hope you find someone close who takes care of that.

Hopefully that will take care of the jealousy, but if it doesn't at least you'll be able to feel jealous from the inside of a warm hug.

 

Just wasted two hours waiting for a training session that never happened. And now I need to try to majorly edit my essay due in tomorrow that will probably end up being an all nighter. And then I have volunteering tomorrow morning after I hand it in, and then onto my next assignments, one of which I'm supposed to know what I'm doing in the next five years career wise. Arghhhh!

 

I didn't sleep last night. At all. I feel awful.

 

I just realised how badly I take criticism.

Firefox has an American dictionary, that annoys me.

There's no food in the house, last night I had stale bread for dinner. HUNGRY.

There's no money for me to go to college, and I can't see why I even try at anything anymore. *slumps*

 

American dictionary? Are we really that different? XD Okay, yeah our spelling is different, but surely a bar/pub is the same thing, no? Like theater/theatre? Or jumper/sweatshirt? Torch/flashlight?

Different words, but same meaning.

 

A couple of months back I converted to Google Chrome. Very decent TBF.
It has an auto-spell checker with American English as the default setting...

That got very annoying, but not so annoying as to prompt me to change it...until now.

Right now there's a red squiggle underneath Google, above, and left, and that false modesty is enraging. 'Microsoft' does not attract the red squiggle, for instance.

It's that sort of thing that will drive me to AskJeeves.

 

Well, I wish I knew how to mend it. :<

 

I have my exams knocking violently at the door...and I am doing all things sundry...but not studying....I am not feeling goood about it...i know the aftermath of not studying too...but stillI am not studying...Do you have words in which I can find solace mates?

 

Well, study the best you can. Focus on the ones you know or at least have some comprehension on. If you need help, get a tutor, ask friends and family, ask the teacher.

It's not the end of the world if you blow it. After the exams, assess and correct and do better next time. You're not perfect, no one is. Just do the best you can, that's all you can do.

 

Indeed. There is nothing inherently undignified about menial work.

 

I'm here for a moan this evening.

I can't concentrate on my writing.

What is the point of slogging my guts out trying to scrape a few coins together to keep a roof over our heads when people around me are dragging me into debt? Then I get moaned at for not claiming a couple of pounds tax back on my childcare costs when they don't even pay any of it. What would help more is if they paid their share of the big bills and didn't leave me to stress over paying all of it.

Sorry for that outburst, rant over - now drinking a large glass of wine.

 

@Thanshin that's the Americanised spelling of it. The English spelling of realised is r-e-a-l-i-s-e-d.

 

Writing books is stressful. But it's almost over, deadline is Sunday, then unless they want final (final, final, final, final) revisions done (again), I'm finished!

Hmm, maybe this belongs in the happy thread. They need a thread for things that balance out and end up just kinda average.

 

Yeah, well, that was kind of the joke I was going for.

(because of your firefox reference, and all.)


Hmm.. I promise not to ever come back. Tip your waitresses?


sorry?