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Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. If you have young children in school, you’ve probably worried about them picking up lice. An estimated 6 to 12 million people deal with this itchy problem every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A new Consumer Reports nationally representative survey of 2,016 U.S. adults found that among those with children under the age of 18, 21 percent said that someone in their home has had lice within the past five years.  Head lice are sesame-seed-sized, wingless insects that feed on human blood. “As...

I am a preschool teacher and mom to a rising kindergartner. I have read a lot of Dr. Seuss books and I am officially Seussed out! I understand that The Cat in the Hat was groundbreaking when it was first published in 1957 and that it was a welcome relief from such books as the Dick and Jane series. Now that it is 2019, I cannot read about that cat, his hat, his things, or the rings he leaves in the bathtub anymore. Also, at 61 pages it is a long slog of a rhyming read, and most kids read it...