bob and lice

[Anonymous]

My 5 year old really wants to cut her thick slightly wavy hair into a chin-length bob. Its currently to her shoulder blades and she wears it in braids to school. I'm feeling paranoid about a bob where we won't be able to pull it back in terms of lice. Am I overthinking it?

[Anonymous]

It's just hair. Let her exercise some independence.

[Anonymous]

yes overthinking

[Anonymous]

Use fair tale products with tree oil. Not sure if they actually help or not but we've never had lice.

[Anonymous]

cut it and on a weekly basis comb it with a lice comb.

[Anonymous]

My DD did this a couple months ago. The winter is a great time to cut a bob - lice is less prevalent and it will grow out in time for you to put it up again in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD did this a couple months ago. The winter is a great time to cut a bob - lice is less prevalent and it will grow out in time for you to put it up again in the summer.

actually IIRIC Fall/ Winter is prime lice season.

[Anonymous]

Overthinking. Healthy lice live close to the scalp. She can still have head to head/scalp to scalp contact with braids. If she ever actually gets lice a bob will be easier to comb out, which is how you actually get rid of them.

[Anonymous]

Every time I see this, I think it's a problem about Bob coming over and bringing lice . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overthinking. Healthy lice live close to the scalp. She can still have head to head/scalp to scalp contact with braids. If she ever actually gets lice a bob will be easier to comb out, which is how you actually get rid of them.

This!! OMG I can’t tell you how much easier it is to comb love out of short hair than long hair.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t worry about this. My son is the only kid in our house to get lice. He got it in Kindergarten and had very short hair.

[Anonymous]

My daughter got lice in elementary school and her hair was very long. I’m not understanding the issue here.

[Anonymous]

They get it from putting their heads together to share a book or screen. Braids are something people do that dont make a real difference. If the lice are that far from the scalp, it is an infestation/overpopulation on a massive scale....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use fair tale products with tree oil. Not sure if they actually help or not but we've never had lice.

Really, any kind of gel or styling cream will work. Lice love clean hair, and if you coat the strands they can’t get a grip.

My DD had tons of out-of-control fine curls, so we always used some kind of detangler or styling cream just to get a comb through it in the mornings. She never once had lice, even in the worst preschool outbreaks.