paulaw0919 on "School Dilemma"
Just venting some some fears right now. Input is welcome. Now that we seem to be in the clear I have been moving on and getting out with the kids much more. We frequently go shopping and have gone to...
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paulaw0919,Sometimes I think my son might have brought the bugs home from school. It's truly a frightening prospect . But we can pick them up anywhere other people are,so I don't think anywhere would...
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but dont freak the kids oout in the process. they will wonder why other kids homes dont require stripping before entering! could scar them?
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Scarredforlife on "School Dilemma"
I doubt that it scares them considering we just get into "house clothes" instead of our street clothes .... you know ,like sweats instead of jeans or slacks etc..they're old ennough to know that we...
View ArticleLastMeal on "School Dilemma"
This is truly a frightening prospect, but I think that when compared to getting your children the best education possible, risking reinfestation is a large but manageable price to pay. I can't say I...
View ArticleDeathToBBs on "School Dilemma"
Scarredforlife: when I was young my brothers and I had our school clothes and our play clothes. As a matter of fact, I remember the whole neighborhood doing that. We would change from our school...
View ArticleNobugsonme on "School Dilemma"
The tradition of changing clothes when you come home, having house clothes, hanging your coat by the door (not in a bedroom), not putting stuff on a bed, not lying in bed in street clothing--these were...
View Articlefightorflight on "School Dilemma"
This is the reality of how we live now, yet I find it so dispiriting, so depressing that in the twenty-first century we must go back in time, regress to get by. Our world is more anxious and uncertain...
View Articlepersona-non-bugga on "School Dilemma"
DeathtoBBs wrote: "when I was young my brothers and I had our school clothes and our play clothes."Me too! The habit's ingrained. Regardless of bedbugs, when I return home, I always change from my...
View Articlepaulaw0919 on "School Dilemma"
Thank you for all the input everyone. I still need to figure this out though. I may not be able to do anything. Right now coming into the house I walk in with two wobbling toddlers and my older 3 yr...
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I think the best I could do right now is bring everyone in the house and then change her into play clothes and bag those school clothes until wash is done later. Even that seems pointless because...
View ArticleLastMeal on "School Dilemma"
What if you had some sort of tent structure outside of the home in which they could change? I know it sounds crazy but I'm just throwing ideas out there. What you really need is a sort of demilitarized...
View Articleparakeets on "School Dilemma"
I feel for your problem since you have done so much work to finally get away from bedbugs, at great personal cost. I think you have to find what the greater personal cost to your family will be about...
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Paula, I'm sorry, I'll get you some links for your meeting.But I'm with LastMeal's first reply. Your children deserve the absolute best education you can provide for them. And the decision should take...
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Paula! I didn't forget but it is late.Here is the IRS story: http://bedbugger.com/2008/01/11/covington-ohio-irs-building-infested-with-bed-bugs/the recent Daily News story:...
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Nomo!! I cannot THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!! Wish me luck tomorrow!
View Articlepaulaw0919 on "School Dilemma"
Okay. Just giving a heads up on how my little meeting went today. I think it went as well as can be expected. The person I spoke with I'm sure didn't expect the topic, but was interested and clueless...
View Articlecompletelybuggedout on "School Dilemma"
I am glad that you got to meet with the school administeration and discuss this problem. I myself homeschool, so we don't have to worry about our son bringing anything home from school, but with a 15...
View Articlebugbuster on "The Well-Educated Bed Bug - Need Advice"
I'm the co-chair of the bed bug task force at my daughter's public elementary school in NYC, where there are several families with bed bugs. I am looking for some guidance about how to protect the...
View ArticleMetermaid on "The Well-Educated Bed Bug - Need Advice"
Interesting post. This is why it's so good that NYC passed the bill on this. The schools should have guidelines for dealing with this problem. Certainly, their current policy of spraying once with no...
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