Teaching and sending my children to school in the same district definitely has its advantages... and sometimes its disadvantages!
Not long ago, Neleah's Kindergarten teacher called just to share a funny story. This is how it went.
Miss M was reading a story to the class. The story referred to "Don't let the bed bugs bite" which prompted a class discussion about what bed bugs are and how you get them. Miss M proceeded to explain that these bugs live in your bed. You get bed bugs if you have an old mattress or if you don't change your sheets. At that point, my very own daughter pipes into the conversation:
"My mom DEFINITELY has bed bugs in her bed. She NEVER changes her sheets!!! I'm never going in her bed again!"
Great.... just what I need floating around the district! What she doesn't see is that with four kids and working full time, I don't change the sheets.... when she is AWAKE!!! I wait until right before I go to bed before I change them.
Today, I saw this headline story.... EWWWWWWWWWWW
Not long ago, Neleah's Kindergarten teacher called just to share a funny story. This is how it went.
Miss M was reading a story to the class. The story referred to "Don't let the bed bugs bite" which prompted a class discussion about what bed bugs are and how you get them. Miss M proceeded to explain that these bugs live in your bed. You get bed bugs if you have an old mattress or if you don't change your sheets. At that point, my very own daughter pipes into the conversation:
"My mom DEFINITELY has bed bugs in her bed. She NEVER changes her sheets!!! I'm never going in her bed again!"
Great.... just what I need floating around the district! What she doesn't see is that with four kids and working full time, I don't change the sheets.... when she is AWAKE!!! I wait until right before I go to bed before I change them.
Today, I saw this headline story.... EWWWWWWWWWWW
Yikes, bedbugs! EPA looks to stop resurgence
By DINA CAPPIELLO -
By DINA CAPPIELLO -
"Don't let the bedbugs bite."
Doesn't seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it's becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky hotels.
With the most effective pesticides banned, the government is trying to figure out how to respond to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II.
Bedbugs live in the crevices and folds of mattresses, sofas and sheets. Then, most often before dawn, they emerge to feed on human blood.
Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit Tuesday.
Organized by one of the agency's advisory committees, the two-day conference drew about 300 participants to a hotel in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from Washington. An Internet site notes that the hotel in question has had no reports of bedbugs.
One of the problems with controlling the reddish-brown insects, according to researchers and the pest control industry, is that there are few chemicals on the market approved for use on mattresses and other household items that are effective at controlling bedbug infestations.
Unlike roaches and ants, bedbugs are blood feeders and can't be lured by bait. It's also difficult for pesticides to reach them in every crack and crevice they hide out in.
"It is a question of reaching them, finding them," said Harold Harlan, an entomologist who has been raising bedbugs for 36 years, feeding them with his own blood. He has the bites to prove it.
The EPA, out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, has pulled many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S. At the same time, the appleseed-sized critters have developed a pesticide resistance because those chemicals are still in use in other countries.
Increasing international travel has also helped them to hitchhike into the U.S.
"One of our roles would be to learn of new products or safer products. ... What we are concerned about is that if people take things into their own hands and start using pesticides on their mattresses that aren't really registered for that, that's a problem," said Lois Rossi, director of the registration division in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs.
The EPA is not alone in trying to deal with the problem. An aide to Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., says the congressman plans to reintroduce legislation next week to expand grant programs to help public housing authorities cope with infestations.
The bill will be called the "Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite Act."
Doesn't seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it's becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky hotels.
With the most effective pesticides banned, the government is trying to figure out how to respond to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II.
Bedbugs live in the crevices and folds of mattresses, sofas and sheets. Then, most often before dawn, they emerge to feed on human blood.
Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit Tuesday.
Organized by one of the agency's advisory committees, the two-day conference drew about 300 participants to a hotel in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from Washington. An Internet site notes that the hotel in question has had no reports of bedbugs.
One of the problems with controlling the reddish-brown insects, according to researchers and the pest control industry, is that there are few chemicals on the market approved for use on mattresses and other household items that are effective at controlling bedbug infestations.
Unlike roaches and ants, bedbugs are blood feeders and can't be lured by bait. It's also difficult for pesticides to reach them in every crack and crevice they hide out in.
"It is a question of reaching them, finding them," said Harold Harlan, an entomologist who has been raising bedbugs for 36 years, feeding them with his own blood. He has the bites to prove it.
The EPA, out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, has pulled many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S. At the same time, the appleseed-sized critters have developed a pesticide resistance because those chemicals are still in use in other countries.
Increasing international travel has also helped them to hitchhike into the U.S.
"One of our roles would be to learn of new products or safer products. ... What we are concerned about is that if people take things into their own hands and start using pesticides on their mattresses that aren't really registered for that, that's a problem," said Lois Rossi, director of the registration division in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs.
The EPA is not alone in trying to deal with the problem. An aide to Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., says the congressman plans to reintroduce legislation next week to expand grant programs to help public housing authorities cope with infestations.
The bill will be called the "Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite Act."
Perhaps a new "bill" needs to be enforced in the Walker house.... "TMI"!!
Just wondering what other wonderful information she is sharing....HMMMM!
1 comment:
That little girl is HILARIOUS! haha, I seriously started laughing out loud!!
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