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A Nag about Nits

Today I want to talk about an unpleasant subject - head lice aka nits I know it's not nice and just hearing about it (and writing about it) is enough to make you itchy but it's a problem most Mum's face. My annoyance is the people who don't check, don't treat and don't handle it! There's nothing wrong with getting nits, it happens to almost everyone but not treating it is unacceptable because it not only effects your and your child's lives but also other people your child interacts with. Some heads seems to be more attractive than others, I know people who's children have never had then and then there's children like Roo who seem to get them every single time they are doing the round. Lately she's been coming home with 1 or 2 big fat adult lice now and then, cue a full hunt and there's nothing else so I think they're coming from someone else and I'm luckily catching them early. I feel like we should have shares in nit tr...

Skin Colour

A couple of weeks ago Roo was looking through her new colouring pencil roll which she got as a Christmas gift, she was telling me about the varying colours when all of a sudden she gasped and started looking for something. She jumped up clutching two pencils, a peach and a mid brown, she exclaimed "I've got skin colours! Now when I'm colouring people I can do their skin". Maybe it's old news now but I couldn't help but think how fantastic it is that this is now normal, when I was 4 (16 long years ago) my default would have been to call peach skin colour, not to say I was isolated or insensitive I just know it wouldn't have crossed my mind. It wasn't a conscious decision for Roo it was just fact. It may seem wrong to point it out I don't know what's right and wrong these days, I just know it put a smile on my face.