What to do when...

Your 8 year old girl comes home from a play date with a big wad of Hubba Bubba bubblegum in her hair? Definitely NOT ice, 20 minutes of this just made it worse, far worse! Just FYI...a 5 minute soak in olive oil (a very high quality olive oil I might add) will do the trick. After the soak, take a fine tooth comb and it should just slide right out! Finally, you must shampoo the olive oil out about 3-5 times and then she's good as new. One hour of your life gone but you stave off an emergency trip to the salon. All this after a full day as a subsititute teacher in the 5th grade where it was my responsibility to teach 11 year-olds how to add and subtract fraction and reduce them to their simplest terms...the skills that leave you never to return!