...to think the mum on Embarrassing Bodies should have

[Ladyanonymous]

...done something about her daughters nits before now?!

Good grief?!

Or am I being judgy?....

Aitch, I don't actually read the Daily Mail so you are obviously more informed than me.

The bottom line is there is no reason to let a child get so badly infested.

Getting Red Top pissy over it is irrelevant. IMHO.

btw my dds didn't have nits for 6 months continuely, but they kept getting reinfected.

it's just 'lazy parenting', it's such a meaningless wanker phrase...

bleurgh, did not see it but am itching at the thought.

how can anyone let their child suffer like that?? it must have been so debilitating let alone embarrasing for the kid. and what about other family members?

there must have been dead and live ones dropping off all over the place.

agree, utterly lazy can't-be-arsed behaviour - it should be a form of neglect

sadly others will see that program as a get out for themselves. like "oh my DC have nits all the time but not as bad as that" or "see, its common, and hard to get rid of, not my fault"

get a nit comb and use it regularly

simples!

oh and your name is a disgrace, cain. IMHO.

No it isn't actually. It describes exactly the problem with that mother failing to address her child's nit infestation of FOUR YEARS!

WTF has my choice of reading material or phrase got to do with the fact that she should have sorted it out a long time ago?

I don't know why you are picking a fight with me over it. Do you think she couldn't have dealt with it or somthing?

I agree that perhaps the daughter fought her on it but nevertheless, I would have got help sooner, in that situation.

Ah there's the rub! My name

Deal with it.

i'm laughing at the tropey old phrase 'lazy parenting' trotted out again on MN... not just by you. it's so utterly banal.

deal with it? ye gods.

you really weren't the only person to use the phrase, cain....

Now Cain's never getting in teh round up

I just caught the end, did they "hoover" the eggs out? - like you SGK, my DD kept getting reinfested my GOD it was a pita

It IS that time of the month.

Aitch - You object to my name and the phrase 'lazy parenting', you have the right to object.

However, I feel no need to get into a pissing match about it.

Sorry for the thread hijack Ladyanonymous, I won't prolong it.

Damn Mamaglee, that was my vocation in life

You'll have to wait now until Aitch's reign ends. Prob about 4 years if MP's anything to go by!

Aren't these programmes a bit exploitative? especially when children are involved?

lol at no pissing match... aye right. i have objected, you're the one doing the pissing i fear. i just Made A Joke about tropey banal phraseology like 'lazy parenting', that's all...

anyway, sounds a bit weird. didn't see the show but four years sounds neglectful in the extreme. surely the school must have been going bananas?

totally agree, nonno.

What's wrong with "lazy" she couldn't be arsed to do anything about it so it got out of control-so err lazy I'm afraid wether Aitch likes the phrase or not.

Nits can come back continuously(I should know) but if you use the Nitty Gritty comb they don't have a change to grow to woodlice size and produce the mountains of eggs as we saw this evening.

Also there is such a thing as Hedrin if all else fails.

I've had to do said Nitty Gritty and Hedrin repeatedly with 3 long haired children,it's time consuming and a pita but to let a child live with nits to that extent for 4 years is ( I'm afraid there is no other word for it).... just plain lazy.

lazy is a word, not a phrase. nice to see you again, milamae.

nice to see you too

Slight tangent, but there are a couple of kids in DD2 class with nit infestations bad enough that you can see nits wandering about, and this is ongoing. It is school policy not to talk to parents specifically but every now and then we get a note home saying nits are in school-please check your kids.

My DD has had nits twice in the last 6 months, I told her friends' mums, I told her teacher. I absolutely can see that you cant go around announcing at the classroom door that a child has nits but what is wrong with a polite note in the book bag? Is this a general policy in all primaries? Could they not do some sort of form at the start of term- tick the box if you are happy for us to tell you discretely if we see nits?

If there is an ongoing problem they could give advice- the sort of thing you get on here like nitty grity combs, put long hair up etc. Why dont they do this what am I missing?

I didn't see it but omg this thread has me itching!
When i was a kid, i remember my next door neighbour was infested so badly you could see them crawling over her hair bobble and weaving in and out her hair. My parents didn't let us play with her, all my friends parents were the same. Poor girl.
I can't help but think the show will make things worse for the child at school. How old was she?

gahh i'm itching.

this is really common place

i once had a child here for tea who was meant to go to a party with DD

she wanted her hair french plaiting and as i could do it her mum asked if id mind

as i was plaiting her hair the nits were running through my fingers
its so common. no idea why her mum hadnt treated her hair. i phoned their house and spoke to dad who said its fine, plait her hair and send her to the party.
some parents really just dont give a shite.

Now i am full on scratching. First time DD got them I didnt spot it for ages as wasnt clued up on the signs. Now poor child can't innocently scratch her head without being pinned down and checked. I do find killing them strangely satisfying- possibly vegetarian displacement behaviour of some kind.