31 Cent Scoops, Rolling with the Punches, Trashing Expired Drugs

Get Screened for Lice

Spring is here, and so might be those little buggers crawling around your kids’ heads. Colonial and Prospect Hill Students got screened for lice this morning at school. Want to deter those insects from getting into their strands? Try using rosemary oil—we hear lice hate it.

Teach Your Kids to Roll with the Punches

How does your daughter react when she doesn’t get the lead in the play? What happens when your son gets benched during the big soccer game? Sometimes it’s tough to keep the stream of tears from rolling down and the tantrums from ensuing. But our Moms Talk columnist, Cathy Taylor has some suggestions as to how you can teach your kids to “roll with the punches.” Check back at 2 p.m. when we post her story.

Get a 31 Cent Scoop and Support Our Firefighters

Head over to Baskin Robbins from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for 31 Cent Scoop Night. You’ll get an inexpensive treat, while also helping to support the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, to which Baskin Robbins aims to donate $100,000.

Learn the Healing Power of Story and Song

Of course blasting Kesha can lift your spirits, but music can also help heal those suffering with emotional and behavioral problems. Learn about the power of tunes and storytelling tonight when the Rev. Moriah Vecchia offers up a lecture on the topic—Narrative Medicine: A Presentation and Performance on the Healing Power of Story and Song. 21 Bloomingdale Rd. (New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division), 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Trash Dangerous Prescription Drugs

PACT Coalition and the Pelham Manor Police Department have teamed up for National Take Back Day to help people get rid of potentially harmful drugs. So start cleaning out your medicine cabinets of your unused, unwanted and expired drugs and bring them to the Pelham Police Department on April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.