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76 Detroit Jewish News

working full time, when children that
neighbor tells the story of
age can be placed in full-time day
how her oldest daughter toi-
care. Day care means not worrying
let trained herself at age 2.
about
toilet training; the caretakers
Four years later, in keeping with family
take care of it. When Yehuda went to
tradition, daughter No. 2, also 2
day care, his mother was
years old, climbed on the toi-
informed that he was next
let and proceeded to aban-
on the list of those being toi-
don her diaper.
let trained, and two days
Most parents aren't that
later he brought home a
lucky. For them, toilet training
note to send underpants
can be a seemingly never
instead of diapers. In less
ending process. But here in
than a week he was dia-
Israel, many mothers band
perless.
together - sort of - giving
Diane Schaefer
Now that Sara's mother is
each other support and
App leTree
more of a full-time mother,
encouragement to finish the
Staff Writer
she is discovering the
task during August. It is this
national obsession with toilet training.
month, during the heat and the "Big
Is it so in the United States? She
I Vacation," that the Great Race is on.
remembers, as a single new immi-
Yes, summer vacation, August, toilet
grant,
visiting a family for Shabbat
training. It is now that the three con-
and hearing a discussion in the park
verge to create a frenzied pressure
about a preschool teacher.
that toilet training must, must, be com-
"She's very good," the mothers said,
pleted prior to Sept. 1 or the first of
"but she refuses to toilet train."
the Hebrew month of Elul.
It was an immigrant's introduction to
Why? the uninitiated might ask.
a
topic
near and dear to Israeli moth-
The answer is simple: The child must
: ers' hearts.
be toilet trained before he can start
Now, herself a mother, - she has dis-
public preschool. In Israel, a child can
covered that, come Purim time, neigh-
enter preschool if she will be 3 on or
!
hors
in casual passing will start eye-
before a particular date. The cutoff
ing parent, then child, then parent
varies, but in some school systems
again.
"Is he toilet trained? How old
I children who won't turn 3 until early
is
he?"
the neighbor asks.
I December can still enter preschool.
The parent answers: "No, I'm wait-
Sara, for instance, who won't be 3
ing until after Pesach, when the
until the end of November and is only
weather
gets warmer." "Me, too,"
I about a head taller than her 10-
says the neighbor.
month-old brother, is due to enter the
With the advent of warmer weather,
hallowed halls of the local Bais
many parents will find a different
Yaakov preschool at the beginning of
excuse
to put off the inevitable, which
I September, where she will join about
will be communicated in conversation.
25 other girls her age. So at the age
But finally, somewhere around June or
of 2 years and 8 months, and so little
July, the training begins in earnest,
she can barely fit on the "baby-loo"
and somehow it all starts to come
that goes over the regular stool, she is
together by August, so that miraculous-
seriously learning how to toilet train.
ly Sara, Yossi, Moshe, Eli and Shaina
After a two-month, self-motivated
Malka are all dry by the time they get
process, Sara nearly has the thing
to that dreaded deadline: the begin-
I down pat. But her mother finds herself
ning of the school year. Cl
longing for the good old days of

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