Like most teachers, I have a first aid kit in the room where I keep a selection of items that we routinely need. Things like band-aids, aspirins, neosporin, hand sanitizer, tums, and itch cream are needed alot for both what kids do during the day (especially recess) and what they bring from home. Just normal kid-injuries (kidjuries for short).
I have a couple types of anti-itch creams. I have cortisol for general itching, a special kids bug bite cream, and a gel for poison oak, ivy, so forth. We need these more and more the closer we get to summer break.
One of my little boys came in the other day scratching wildly.
"Oh, you gotta help me" he said. "This poison ivy's about to kill me" While talking, he continued to dance around the floor and scratch fairly deeply.
While I was getting the gel out, I asked, "How long has it itched?" I was just curious as to how long this poor kid has suffered. It was Monday and I wondered if he had done it recently or had to deal with it all weekend.
"I'm itching it now" he said. "I've itched it all morning, I itched it last night. Heck, I've itched it many times. Give me the itchy stuff!"
I handed it right over. I didn't want him to have to itch it anymore on my account.
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