Our nine year old child is going through the stage of flexing her independence muscles and she’s about to drive me crazy. She has been doing the opposite of just about everything I have asked her to do at home and now it’s happening at school as well. She’s in the fourth grade and as a part of a disciplinary measure she was sent to the lunch room, during the third grade lunch period, for supervision.

Well, I’m sure you can just imagine how embarrassing it would be for a fourth grader to have to eat lunch with a bunch of third graders. So,... more

It’s that time of year again. Children are getting bundled up in coats, scarves and hats and heading off to school. Once they arrive in the class room, they throw all of those articles into a closet piled together until recess. If just one of those children happens to have head lice, then this playground of cloth is the perfect spreading ground for those little biting opportunists.

Personally I’ve sworn by Tea Tree Oil for about 12 years now. In the winter time I put a few drops in the shampoo bottle, in the cream rinse bottle,... more