Great Tick Info For Kids

This website has a lot of good info for kids about Lyme Disease and ticks. There are bookmarks, coloring books and all kinds of fun stuff to get their attention. Please check out "Timothy the Tick."

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Ideas For Parents Who Are Home Sick With Kids

Tips On Keeping The Kids Busy

1. Have your child make a list of relatives that they love. Give them a couple coloring books and have them color a picture for each of the people they chose and mail them the page they colored for them.

Benefit: This should afford you a one hour nap plus keep kids in contact with family members that probably avoid you now.

2. Find any outside group activities going on in your neighborhood such as churches or summer schools and see if you can get your child into a car pool.

Benefit: A couple hour nap, maybe even a detox bath, in peace.

3. Netflex and books on tape will give you some nice time with your kids where you won't have to be active.

Benefit: Quality, but quiet time with your children.

4. Simple homemade toys such as a ball maze  or make a fort they can play quietly in.

Benefit: Helps them to be creative and it's a good way to get an older sibling to help the younger ones.

5. Two words: chalkboard paint! You can paint a wall, a door, a table or anything you want with this. It will keep them busy for hours!
Downfall: You have to be able to paint a wall or door or table. Benefit: This is something they  can play with over and over..Just wipe the slate clean and  start over again.

Please post any ideas you have in the comments.

So this is what happened?

Steere Vs Ticks
Poker Game

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In case you didn't catch the 20/20 segment on Lyme Disease, here is a small segment:

What was good about the show: 


It brings about awareness about Lyme Disease. It also educates people on how Lyme symtpoms are always different in each person. One person may have sore joints, while the next has memory issues. There are no one set of symptoms for tick borne diseases. I was also glad to see co infections brought up.

What I'd like to see changed for future shows, is that first of all, stop asking people if they are faking it. You would never ask a cancer patient that! Elaina did a good job defending herself, but why shoudl she have to? 

Secondly, why is Lyme always lumped in with such things as eating rocks? This is a serious disease. It can be fatal. Why not put it on a show all of it's own, or among cancer or HIV shows?

At Home Tick Testing Kit?

Have any of you heard of this? I can't believe in all my years in activism that I haven't. Has anyone tried this? Could it work on our own blood? Just curious and for $14 it may be worth the price to just try it.

http://www.thegearcaster.com/the_gearcaster/2010/07/care-plus-home-tick-test-for-lyme-disease.html

http://www.outdoorgb.com/p/care_plus_tick_test_lyme_borreliose_/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=directory&utm_content=USA&currency=USD&country=USA&SelectedBundle=174543

Tick Safety and Lyme Prevention

Starring in this video is the little tick I found on my neck yesterday morning. Hope it doesn't creep you out too bad!

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