Shampoo! At least, when you’re trying to get gum out of a kid’s hair.

Mason fell asleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with it in his hair. He’s lucky; when I was around the same age as Mason it happened to me, only the gum ended up sticking my head to a pillow.

Susan and I don’t know everything, but we do have Google. A few minutes later I was rubbing peanut butter through the boy’s head, breaking up the gum. It worked, but would have worked better if I’d had a comb to brush everything out. After rubbing the spot for about five minutes, the gum began dissolving. Shampoo, repeat with the peanut butter, and shampoo again.