Two days back at school and 2012 was starting the way it will probably go on. With a letter advising of a case of head lice, aka nits, in my son's class.
One of my friends is a primary school teacher at a middle sized school (two classes in each year). She reckons that there's a class sending out one of those letters every week.
So nits are something that, if you've got young primary school children, you're going to have to deal with. On the plus side, it does get less of a problem as they get older and aren't so prone to putting their heads together.
After a discussion with other parents, many of whom admitted they had no idea how to deal with nits at all, I decided to go online and research this myself. Unfortunately, thanks to a bad outbreak in my son's nursery when he was 2, I have some experience as well.
One thing though talking to the other mums was how few of us had had nits as children. None of us in fact. Maybe there is a case for bringing back the nit nurses after all? Surely there's a way that this can be done without stigmatising children?
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