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Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

You let him go with them the second time? When they abandoned him the first.. There would be hell to pay if someone did that to my child!!

I would hope its a fake story. Why would someone do a lice check on a kid before a vacation? If he had lice, just treat it with the parent's permission and wash all his stuff. Or, call the parents and drop him off or have them pick him up before they left. That is neglect to leave a child on a porch with a cell phone, tell him to wait an hour and call his parents. Makes no sense. And, why would they then drive 1/2 back to meet him after getting to their vacation spot. Then, not check him at the spot, take off with him then scream lice. Seriously, just get a box of RID (or what ever it is now called). This has to be fake or OP is nuts to agree for her kid to go with neglectful people.

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Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

SO ridiculous PP!!

OP I know you said the lice phase is behind you but I wanted to drop this advice here in case it is helpful to anybody who stumbles over it. My DH did some research online and found a website from a lady who found a cheap and sure way to beat lice without pesticides, a lot of money, or drama. To boil it down, you mix salt into shampoo 1:6 ratio. Work it into your kid's head and have them wear an old pillowcase secured on their head for as long as they can stand it, try at least a movie length but 40 minutes will do. The salt kills the live lice at all stages except eggs. You then rinse and liberally condition the hair and comb out the hair in the shower with a good lice comb. I used a metal bowl to swish the comb and take a louse count and you would not believe how effective the salt is at killing the lice, more effective than the Rid stuff. It dries them out. Anyway, you have to do it at least once every 4-5 days to catch new hatches. Eggs take 7-10 days to hatch and females take 7-10 days to mature so in 21 days or so you could hopefully be completely lice free. Of course you also have to take steps to change out sheets and pillow cases, clean furniture, hats jackets etc. The tools we used were a large metal bowl and large plastic spoon for mixing the shampoo and salt, a pouring cup to get most of it back into the squeeze bottle for ease of application, a lice comb, an old pillowcase and a hair tie and a two binder clip or two to help fasten it. A towel pinned around the shoulders and an old t-shirt keeps the drying shampoo off your kid's skin. The pillowcase catches lice trying to escape the salt.
If I were your friend's mom I would not be thrilled to be hosting a lice ridden kid but I'd never leave him on the stairs (?!) and I could use this formula to help him out and ditch the drama. Compassion, people. We stumbled over this treatment and now I want to share it.

Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

You let him go with them the second time? When they abandoned him the first.. There would be hell to pay if someone did that to my child!!

I went to an acquaintance's home for a playdate. She has 5 kids and I brought my younger 2, who were 2 and 6 months at the time. My older DC was at school but all of hers were at home, since she home schools.

We got there and her kids were super polite and played with my 2 year old wonderfully. Until...the older girl leaned over, grabbed a trashcan (like a bathroom sized trashcan) and vomited into it. I was horrified. I looked at my friend and she casually mentioned, "Oh yeah, they all have some sort of stomach thing right now."

I must have looked horrified because she ordered the girl up to go wash her hands. Meanwhile I set the baby in his car seat to get my 2 yo's coat on. I planned to just nicely thank her and be on my way. While I was prepping the 2 yo to leave, her 4 yo comes over and, yes, pukes all over my baby and his car seat.

It was insane. I had to stay and wash baby and clean car seat as best I could. We hustled home as fast as possible. As you might've guessed, we all came down with a horrible bout of gastro about 2 days later. It was awful. Even DH and my older DC were not spared.

I have never spoken to that acquaintance again.

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Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

I would never consider another playdate no less weekend after they left him behind.. I could see not having him come for the weekend..but parents should have called you and waited for a pickup.

I would cursed them out for just leaving my child alone on their front porch.
A*****
Glad your kid was safe!

This is a horrible story and it's gross. It still gives me shudders.

Play date kid went to the bathroom by himself. Since he was recently potty trained, I nervously asked my new mom friend if she wanted to go with him. She was really into the daiquiris I served and said he'd be fine. After they left, I found out the kids had peed all over my bathroom, everywhere but the toilet and pooped in the sink. It's a pedestal sink, so I don't even know how he got up there. Upside is, mom came over to clean up the mess and we've become really good friends since.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

I would never consider another playdate no less weekend after they left him behind.. I could see not having him come for the weekend..but parents should have called you and waited for a pickup.

Yeah, confused as to why you let him go with them the second time after they left him on the porch!

I dont get that either.

Can't be real. Wtf? How could you trust parents that leave a kid alone and drive off?

This wasn't horrible, but definitely was strange:

We invited over a friend of my son's from school. His mom showed up with his little brother in tow and asked if he could stay too. I agreed - it wasn't a big deal, and we had a son the same age, so we figured they'd all play together. As soon as the mom left, the older brother refused to acknowledge little brother's presence. Little brother proceeded to spend the next two hours silently following around me and DH. We encouraged him to go play with the other kids, showed him toys in the playroom, etc. but he just nodded and continued to stare at us/follow us around. It was unclear whether or not he understood English. To the mom's benefit, she did drop off a box of donuts when she left the kids.

Anonymous wrote:Here's mine: I had my Best friend over for dinner with her almost 5 year old. Her child would not stop going all over our house (my bedroom, office) even though we asked her multiple times to stay downstairs. She tried to hit our TV with a hammer, knocked pictures over, and stood in front of our TV screaming to annoy my 7 year old. My friend just ignored her child or would give a half hearted stop that while filling her wine glass.

You are a really feeble, wimpy, weak-ass, pathetic individual if you did not put a stop to this.

Fer chrissake, why didn't you tell your "friend" very firmly, "if you don't make her stop, THEN I WILL"?

Anonymous wrote:DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.

OMG! You win!

So sorry for people being assholes. This would get me pissed every time I would think about it. For years.

A coworker and I had planned to get our 6 year old boys together. We were all supposed to hang out, but something came up, and she asked if I could watch her son for a bit. Ok, no problem, but then he turned out to be a super aggressive kid and a bad listener. He hit my son so hard over the head with a plastic light saber that a giant knot formed. I tried taking them outside to burn off energy, and he threw my son down off the monkey bars onto the ground when DS was "winning" a race. It was the longest 2 hours of my life. My coworker suggested getting them together again, but I said it didn't seem like they were a fit.

We have a goldfish bowl that DH and I throw our change in. It is big and generally has about $300-400 of change. My son's friend (7) came in and started filling his pockets with our change. Like he could barely keep his pants up due to the large amount of change in his pockets. I asked him, "What are you doing? Please put it back." He started crying and arguing with me (?). Kids are such spoiled brats in DC.

Hmmm nothing this bad but I guess one time when my oldest was about 2.5 we were at a playground with friends and she came walking up to where we were sitting and chatting. Someone asked did we smell something and it turns out my 2.5 year old and had the foulest diaper in the history of the world. Pure liquid. It was running down her legs and pooling in her shoes and socks. I had to strip her down, wipe her with sanitizing wipes the best I could, and then carry her naked to the car to go home early. Pretty toxic.

My son was in PK, at a new school. A very nice family invited us over for a playdate. All my 5 year old wanted to do was play with her classmate's baby sister's toys and totally ignore her supposed friend. I was mortified.

A couple months later, DS was diagnosed with autism.

OP here, I didn't give all the details of the playdate, there were many more. Just wanted to hear others stories.