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lunch, and dinner usually is a
ed, restless little darlings out
ive o'clock on a late
simple repast. The park varia-
for a few, good hours of stren-
summer's afternoon.
tion on the evening meal usu-
uous play in hopes that they'll
Israel's parks, virtu-
ally consists of peanut butter
get the kinks out of their sys-
ally deserted during
or cheese sandwich-
tems and fall grate-
the afternoon heat, rapidly be-
es (depending on
fully into bed — at a
come populated. Children of
the mother's coun-
reasonable hour.
all ages, confined to the rela-
try of origin), sliced
With Daylight
tively cooler indoors while the
carrots and cucum-
Savings Time, how-
searing Middle-Eastern sun
bers, a yogurt-like,
ever, which lasts un-
beats down, now seek the
Israeli dairy product
til Rosh Hashanah,
vast outdoors with their bicy-
known as leben, or
the cooling off hour
cles, tricycles, tot-sized scoot-
pudding. The moth-
for Israel coincides
ers, or buckets and shovels for
er also might have
with the time when
the sand lot.
included a few plas-
rational mothers
Accompanying the younger
DIANE S CHAEFER
tic
bags or mini-car-
want to start feeding
children are mothers encum-
SPECIAL TO THE
tons
of the ubiquitous
and bathing their
bered with baby carriages
APPL ETREE
shoco, as chocolate
children. When chil-
and an arsenal of plastic shop-
milk
is
called.
dren
start
their
park
routine
at
ping bags. The bags' contents
Thus armed, the Israeli
5 p.m., it means that dinner
are the mothers' secret
mother
can settle down com-
and
bath
are
put
off
for
at
least
weapon in the war against
fortably on a park bench or
an hour, if not two, resulting
that international scourge,
rock, visit with her friends and
in
an
unreasonable
bedtime.
Daylight Savings Time, when
benignly watch her children
Enter that secret weapon,
children insist on staying up
let off all the energy they've
the
plastic
shopping
bag.
until all hours of
accumulated during the long,
Its contents contain the
the night.
Once
hot
day. At some point, the
usual
parapherna-
Daylight Savings
children usually drift over on
lia that mothers
Time creates a
the
d
ay
starts
their own accord to complain
take
with
them
great, logistical
of hunger and start polishing
to the park:
dilemma for the Is-
to
cool
down,
off the edible contents of the
bottles
of
water
raeli mother of
plastic bag. Dinner might be
and other assorted drinks,
younger children.
tim
it's
e
an intensive, all-at-once affair,
tissues
for
runny
noses,
a
Because it's simply
or it might be casual, with the
book or magazine
too hot, and the
d
for
to
hea
child taking time out between
to
read
in
case
of
sun too strong to
"courses" for another bike
a dearth of other
play outside in the
the
pa
rk.
ride.
interesting
mothers
afternoon, Israeli
As the sun starts to lower in
with whom to chat. Yet
children usually re-
the sky (to the point where, in
along with the usual contents
main cooped up inside rela-
a normal world, it should
is an important addition: din-
tively small apartments where
have been an hour before)
ner.
air conditioning is still the ex-
mothers can begin gathering
This dinner isn't anything
ception, not the rule. Once
in their brood for the return
special.
No
one
expects
it
to
the
home to baths and, finally, to
be, because in Israel the main
day starts to cool down,
bed. El
meal of the day is eaten at
it's time to take the overheat-

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