If a child was dropped at yours, would you (you have to pick one)

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Child is dropped at yours to play with your children. Child has nits, but parent doesn’t tell you beforehand. Parent casually mentions it at pick-up. When you say she should have let you know, she says she didn’t think it was a big deal, some children won’t even know they have nits yet and besides, schools allow children to go with nits and there’ll probably be someone in their classes with nits anyway. What would you think?

a) WTF?

b) Good point.

c) Both.

d) Something else.

A, but then that's my reaction to a lot of the crap that other people say and do.

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A, and send her one of those videos of horrendous nit cases (guilty secret, I actually like watching them) and possibly treat the child and send home with instructions ("oh it's so time consuming isn't it, I put a film on for them both as you'll probably want your DC straight in bed when they get home").
We do the conditioner treatment every 3 days as the lotion didn't work for us.

Try Oh so soft from Avon, really works.

But unfortunately a lot of parents don’t treat their kids.

You can get the solution in prescription at £10 a pop it’s worth it.

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OP obvs it's A

the real question is - what did you do/say?!!

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Also - people, NO 'one-off' treatment works!

You have to google the lifecycle of headlice, and do it again after all the eggs (that aren't killed by any treatment) have hatched but before they have developed enough to lay their own eggs.

It\s a nightmare but it's the only way. Either that or combing with condiioner to the same timetable, t till no nits have been seen for at least 2 sessions

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She makes it sound as if the school is at fault for not making kids with nits stay home?!

It's grim she didn't warn you. And surely the child is being treated?

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A. I’d also give them a piece of my mind. And ask them to comb my kids hair until it was clear.
that kid would never be welcome again in my home.

My DD has long unruly hair. And she is highly sensitive. So screams a lot when her hair needs to be combed. Adding in headlice and the nit comb is a few steps too far for me.

A. 100000000%

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id b & and telling her the above. Selfish. Stupid woman.

A - WTF. That is CF ing at its highest level. I would be traumatised if someone had nuts and they were in my house.

WTF awful

A and I say that as someone that works in a school. It's just manners. Apart from anything else, if you chose to let the play date go ahead, it would have allowed you to tie any long hair back or plait it to make catching the little blighters less likely.

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I'd be fuming. What's the child's hair like? Unless it is afro type hair surely she could have treated her with conditioner and a nit comb to get rid of them before the play date. Why wouldn't she be doing this straight away anyway. It's neglectful leaving a child with nits.

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A. When DC's class got nits, all the parents agreed to treat for three weekends in a row to knock it on the head. Stopped the buggers hanging around.

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