Daughter`s Incredibly Bad Hair Day
I got a call from the big kids` school yesterday.
"It`s not Big Son," said the office administrator. That had in fact been my first thought.
It turned out to be an emergency of the very lowest urgency. Lately, Daughter has been using a "gummy eraser." It`s kind of like a blob of clay, that also erases pencil marks. Maybe it`s more accurate to describe it as a blob of chewing gum. Somehow, Daughter had gotten this blob caught in her hair, and couldn`t get it out.
"Can you come?" asked the administrator.
"Um... can`t you just cut it?"
"You have to see this to believe this."
Sure enough, Daughter had managed to gum up most of the hair in the area immediately over her forehead. Snipping it was not a real option, at least if we wanted her to look normal for the next few weeks and not have a bald spot right over her face.
Poor Daughter looked like a small animal caught in a trap.
"How did you DO this?"
"I don`t knoooooooow! I was just playing, and then it was stuck!"
Drumroll, please --- Mama to the rescue. I brought a jar of peanut butter and a comb with me to the school, and in a few minutes Daughter rejoined her class, blob-free and unshorn.
I can`t believe no one at the school knew that peanut butter removes gum from hair. I thought everyone knew that.
Hub said later, "It`s a good thing you`re not working now, and you were at home when they called you. What if they couldn`t reach you? How can you even think about going back to work?"
Gee -- had I been unreachable, or too busy, I guess she would have spent the day with a blob of gummy stuff in her hair. It`s not exactly a severed limb we`re talking about here, it`s just hair.
Daughter actually asked me if she could have her eraser back. Um, NO. No way!
The eraser went into the garbage can -- the one in the teachers` lounge, which I knew Daughter wasn`t allowed to enter to surreptitiously retrieve it.
"It`s not Big Son," said the office administrator. That had in fact been my first thought.
It turned out to be an emergency of the very lowest urgency. Lately, Daughter has been using a "gummy eraser." It`s kind of like a blob of clay, that also erases pencil marks. Maybe it`s more accurate to describe it as a blob of chewing gum. Somehow, Daughter had gotten this blob caught in her hair, and couldn`t get it out.
"Can you come?" asked the administrator.
"Um... can`t you just cut it?"
"You have to see this to believe this."
Sure enough, Daughter had managed to gum up most of the hair in the area immediately over her forehead. Snipping it was not a real option, at least if we wanted her to look normal for the next few weeks and not have a bald spot right over her face.
Poor Daughter looked like a small animal caught in a trap.
"How did you DO this?"
"I don`t knoooooooow! I was just playing, and then it was stuck!"
Drumroll, please --- Mama to the rescue. I brought a jar of peanut butter and a comb with me to the school, and in a few minutes Daughter rejoined her class, blob-free and unshorn.
I can`t believe no one at the school knew that peanut butter removes gum from hair. I thought everyone knew that.
Hub said later, "It`s a good thing you`re not working now, and you were at home when they called you. What if they couldn`t reach you? How can you even think about going back to work?"
Gee -- had I been unreachable, or too busy, I guess she would have spent the day with a blob of gummy stuff in her hair. It`s not exactly a severed limb we`re talking about here, it`s just hair.
Daughter actually asked me if she could have her eraser back. Um, NO. No way!
The eraser went into the garbage can -- the one in the teachers` lounge, which I knew Daughter wasn`t allowed to enter to surreptitiously retrieve it.
posted by L. at 5:43 PM
10 Comments:
Peanut butter to the rescue again! I love the stuff. My husband claims ice works, but what does he know.
And you're right. Thank god you're a SAHM, because your daughter wouldn't have survived if you hadn't gotten there so quickly. That's what SAHMs are for, right? "How can you even think about going back to work?" WHAT?
Ice does work, peanut butter works better and your hands don't freeze.
The things kids can do never fail to amaze me and they never, never, know how they did it.
You should try it sometimes with the wild hair my girls have.
Dutch was at 103 the last time I checked. If you came over from granny thanks although you read Juniper too and it may have been coincidence.
You might suggest the following reference item to those who lack your knowledge. Now you lady got all this down, congratulations.
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I honestly didnt know about peanut butter. I have always used this truly amazing horse product called
show sheen.
stuff is amazing.
Peanut butter and a comb? Why do I have the sneaking feeling that this knowledge will come in quite handy sometime in my future. Thank you, Obi Wan!
I can't tell you the number of times J got gum in her hair... so glad we finally got through that stage!
sounds like Hub isn't exactly keen on you getting back to work... interesting... how does that sit with you?
nice that Daughter can add a bit of spice to the day though, not all on Big Son's plate... she sounds like she was in a fairly good humor about it... that's a plus!
I didn't know about the peanut butter, but Rachel did -- having had it used on her at one point.
My niece once showed up in my office (up in the attic) with a comb badly twisted in her hair. She had decided to curl her own hair. Just like her aunt did once. Rather than cut her hair to get it out (which what I was supposed to do), I cut the comb into pieces. Just in case your daughter decides she wants curly hair.
So did she spend the rest of the day smelling like peanut butter? Ha! Yummy. :)
Some schools probably wouldn't even allow you to do that, becuase of stories of kids dying after kissing someone who ate peanut butter, that kind of thing.
Yeah, I guess some schools have a zero tolerance policy for peanut butter -- and if it were my kid with the life-threatening allergy, I can understand why. But any oily substance will work. Peanut butter is just what most people have around the house.
One of the teachers tried using ice -- it helped get a little of it out, but peanut butter did the trick much quicker.
Hub wants it both ways -- he wants me to be on call for the kids at home all the time (and cooking all the time -- which I only do sometimes, even though I`m at home now), but he would also love it if brought home that paycheck, too. So I think I`m going to start to try freelancing from home again, as I did when the older 2 kids were very small.
heavens, if you had been at work, you may have had to TELL them on the phone about peanut butter! The horror!
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