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School's In: Top Tips for Preventing Head Lice
 With the school bell ringing, it's important for parents to supply kids with everything they'll need for a fulfilling learning experience in the classroom, including a healthy head. This school year, remember to send kids back to class with information on preventing the spread of lice!
Melissa Gordon, Westchester mom to three and founder of Happyheads™ Bye-Bye Lice™ nontoxic head lice treatment and prevention products (www.happyheadsproducts.com) offers these quick tips for future scholars so they won't end up with a pesky lice attack.
1. Keep your head to yourself. Tell kids to try to avoid head-to-head contact at school (in gym, on the playground, or during sports) and while playing at home with other children.
2. Sometimes it's better not to share. Warn children not to share combs, brushes, hats, scarves, bandanas, ribbons, barrettes, hair ties or bands, towels, helmets, or other personal care items with anyone else, whether they may have lice or not.
 3. Stay away. Circle time at school is often held on a rug. Encourage your kids to sit up straight (not lay down)! Tell kids not to lie on bedding, pillows, and carpets that in their friends' homes.
4. Did a classmate get head lice? If so, every three or four days, examine members of your household who have had close contact with a person who has lice. Check behind the ears and the nap for tiny off white to tan colored nits, or eggs. Nits are oval shaped and glued to the hair shaft. They don't "shake off" like dandruff - they have to be pulled to the end of the hair shaft to be removed. If your child gets lice, tell those folks your child has recently been exposed to, as well as his or her school nurse.
5. Slumber Party Bewares. If you have a daughter, chances are she's having sleepovers with her BFFs. Sleepovers and slumber parties are perfect for head lice transmittal.
6. Keep it natural. Many of nature's oils and herbs can be used as repellent for lice. Melissa suggests using natural oils, which is the foundation for Happyheads™ Bye-Bye Lice™ products, like tea tree, lemongrass, lavender, and peppermint.
 7. Be a smart consumer. Many lice-treatment shampoos contain ingredients that have been banned as agricultural insecticides and are extremely toxic.
8. Keep it up. For girls, the best thing to do it to keep hair up. Braids are preferable.
9. Dirty it up. Lice prefer clean hair, so use hair spray, gel or leave-in conditioner on your kids' heads.
10. Blow dry children's hair every time you wash it. Lice and eggs can be killed with dry heat.
For more information visit www.happyheadsnow.com and www.happyheadsproducts.com. |
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APPLE PIE JUDGING
Join the fun at the John Jay Homestead Country Fair this Sunday, September 14th!
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, 400 Route 22, Katonah, NY. Family fair features swimming pig races, pony rides, wagon rides, a visit from Dillon's Irish Regiment, falconry, petting zoo, arts & crafts, magician, face painting and much more. Live music and great food available. Admission: $20 per carload, which includes a house tour. For more information, call (914) 232-8119; email friends@johnjayhomestead.org; or visit our website at www.johnjayhomestead.org
Also this weekend at the John Jay Homestead: the famous and always fabulous, Barn Dance!
Saturday, September 13, 4 to 9 p.m. The wonderful family event features live music, a delicious barbeque, make your own sundae stations, children's crafts and swimming pig races! Admission for adults ranges from $50 to $200 per person; children are $15. For more information, call (914) 232-8119, email friends@johnjayhomestead.org, or visit the website at www.johnjayhomestead.org. |
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Hudson Valley Walk for PKD
The Hudson Valley Walk for PKD will take place on Saturday, September 20th at the Bedford Hills Memorial Park. We walk to raise money and awareness for Polycystic Kidney Disease. Registration begins at 9am and the Walk at 10am. Please join us at the park, where the fun-filled family event will begin. The 2-1/2 mile walk will take us on a loop which will return us to the park. This is an event the whole family will enjoy. Night Light DJs will be emceeing and providing musical entertainment. Lunch will be provided for all walkers, courtesy of area food establishments. Children can enjoy face painting, balloons and tattoos. Bring pictures and notes for our "Wishing Wall" to honor loved ones whom you might be walking in honor and/or memory of. And you don't want to miss the exciting silent auction. Rain or shine, this is an event you won't want to miss. There is no registration fee for the Hudson Valley Walk this year! Those who raise $100 or more will receive a free Walk for PKD tshirt. Call 914-953-1163, email hudsonvalleywalk@pkdcure.org or click here for more information. |
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