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Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / October 2008Charlie Brown and dunking for apples
Was just watching Charlie Brown Halloween. The kids were dunking for apples at the party. I remember doing this when I was a kid in the 1960s. Of course then, it was a very homogeneous group, with clean heads. Do they do this anymore--with all the multiculturalism and head lice that seems to be such a problem now? I couldn't believe it a few years ago when I found out about head lice becoming such a problem for kids in this day in age. I had thought this died out in the 1930s. NO kid I knew in grade school had head lice. > Was just watching Charlie Brown Halloween. The kids were > dunking for apples at the party. I remember doing this when I was [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > in the 1930s. NO kid I knew in grade school had > head lice. Head lice are pretty common. They are not a condition of poverty or poor parenting. It is a simple infection that travels easily. Jeff >> Was just watching Charlie Brown Halloween. The kids were >> dunking for apples at the party. I remember doing this when I was [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Head lice are pretty common. They are not a condition of poverty or poor > parenting. It is a simple infection that travels easily. And they've always been common. People were just too embarrassed to admit to them, so they made up other excuses for missing school or whatever else needed explaining away. What is more likely to have changed is school policies requiring notification to parents when there are cases of head lice in the school or classroom. Best wishes, Ericka Head lice aren't a matter of cleanliness, like colds and flu they are a matter of exposure. | Was just watching Charlie Brown Halloween. The kids were | dunking for apples at the party. I remember doing this when I was [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] | in the 1930s. NO kid I knew in grade school had | head lice. On Oct 28, 10:20 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> wrote: > Head lice aren't a matter of cleanliness, like colds and flu they are a > matter of exposure. So it must be the company one keeps. My old pop used to say, "laying with the dogs is a good way to get fleas." > yerfrien...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > | in the 1930s. NO kid I knew in grade school had > | head lice. I had head lice once when I was attending a Catholic girls boarding school. Figure I got them riding the bus back to school from vacation one time. No company at all. There's been a resurgence of bedbugs in hotels lately, I have read. Some very nice hotels. Again, it's a matter of exposure. Like colds. Do you think only sleazy people get colds? | On Oct 28, 10:20 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> | wrote: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] | So it must be the company one keeps. My old pop used to say, | "laying with the dogs is a good way to get fleas." On Oct 28, 10:39 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> wrote: > I had head lice once when I was attending a Catholic girls boarding school. > Figure I got them riding the bus back to school from vacation one time. No > company at all. There's been a resurgence of bedbugs in hotels lately, I > have read. Some very nice hotels. Again, it's a matter of exposure. Like > colds. I'm not sure what 'very nice' means to you, but I've stayed in many hotels and motels and b&b's and I've never seen any evidence of critters like this on my bed. If I did I would't be there long. > Do you think only sleazy people get colds? I hope not. My wife and I are just getting over bad colds. I had it first and gave it to her. Sometimes we go literally years without a cold. > yerfrien...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > | So it must be the company one keeps. My old pop used to say, > | "laying with the dogs is a good way to get fleas." On Oct 28, 10:39 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> wrote: > I had head lice once when I was attending a Catholic girls boarding school. > Figure I got them riding the bus back to school from vacation one time. No > company at all. There's been a resurgence of bedbugs in hotels lately, I > have read. Some very nice hotels. Again, it's a matter of exposure. Like > colds. Do you think only sleazy people get colds? Oh I forgot Joan, can head lice fly through the air like the cold virus on droplets of saliva after a sneeze. > yerfrien...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > | So it must be the company one keeps. My old pop used to say, > | "laying with the dogs is a good way to get fleas." On Oct 28, 10:39 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> wrote: > I had head lice once when I was attending a Catholic girls boarding > school. > Figure I got them riding the bus back to school from vacation one time. No > company at all. There's been a resurgence of bedbugs in hotels lately, I > have read. Some very nice hotels. Again, it's a matter of exposure. Like > colds. Do you think only sleazy people get colds? Oh I forgot Joan, can head lice fly through the air like the cold virus on droplets of saliva after a sneeze. No! If they did, everyone would have them. Strangely, clean hair attracts, rather than unwashed. Work it out!! > On Oct 28, 10:39 pm, "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > virus > on droplets of saliva after a sneeze. No, but they are very easily spread, like when kids put on someone's hat. Jeff > No! > If they did, everyone would have them. > > Strangely, clean hair attracts, rather than unwashed. > Work it out!! Just because the transmission path is different doesn't defeat the analogy. | Oh I forgot Joan, can head lice fly through the air like the cold | virus | on droplets of saliva after a sneeze. > NO kid I knew in grade school had > head lice. The key word here is "KNEW". You knew kids that had head lice, you just didn't KNOW they had it. And I assure you, it has nothing to do with clean heads or homogenization... LES! In article <1e652861-a78e-4a53-b05d-bc19c28e901c@v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>, > The kids were dunking for apples at the party. Too bad they weren't dunking for FRIES!...Pete I agree with Joan we get lice due to exposure. I got mine a few years ago from my sister who got it from her friends. Up until today I have yet to know from who it originated from. There is just no way to determine where the lice comes from. 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