New Jersey Tanning Booth Mom

[DubaiSis]

The bed is closed so the other person in the room wouldn't get much UVA (according to the dermatologist I saw today on The View).

I went to a tanning bed exactly twice. The first time, whatever. The second time I got FuhRIED. And never again.

The thing that always pops into my mind is wouldn't it be funny if people who do that to themselves are also racist?

eta/oh and by the way, I have two sisters who have psoriasis. They both have gone through "light treatments" which is really just a stand up tanning bed. Except that if I'm remembering right, they would do the light treatments for something like 15 seconds. And this was under full medical supervision, in a doctor's office. They were told to get real sun, VERY important, but never more than 15 minutes. This all just screams to me the typical American thing of taking something good and overdoing it to the point of being very very bad.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

The thing that always pops into my mind is wouldn't it be funny if people who do that to themselves are also racist?

What?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

The girl showed up at school with a sunburn. I'm thinking that mom's excessive tanning raised a red flag with the school staff...but from what I've heard, the investigation began due to the daughter's sunburn, not her presence at the tanning salon and whether she was in the bed or just in the room.

My son got his worst sun burn ever while on a school field trip at this time of year, even though I had sent sun screen with him. A sunburn isn't proof of anything. If nobody saw the kid in a tanning booth, I don't how they'd prove anything. I suppose if the kid had no tan lines, that would be suspicious.

What bothers me about this is along the lines of what Pika is saying... there are kids in homes without heat in the winter, without running water, who are being abused severely, who were sexually abused for years by a stepfather who is still in the house but has stopped and, in comparison, this is pretty minor. Yes, this woman is a freak. Even if she did let the kid try out the tanning booth, I'm not convinced the kid should be removed from the home.