W EEKLY EDITION MAR 7, 2018
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Potty Training Practices
Children all over the world are potty trained every day –
but how they a re trained differs across the globe
Potty - training your children isn't a skill you learn from a book.
You can research the myriad ways to accomplish this arduous
task in the more than 2,000 books printed in English about
parenting to pick a method that wo rks for you and your
schedule, but you might forget one thing: Your kid doesn't
care about your schedule, and neither do other adults. Parents can be each other's worst critics and every one of us
has an opinion about the proper way to child - rear. But pott y - training successes aren't limited to those who think
they know best; it happens whether you believe it can, and in more ways worldwide than you would imagine. Split
pants, pants that open in the middle when a child squats, allow kids to learn with minima l mess in the Chinese
countryside. In Cote d'Ivoire, mothers in Beng villages administer enemas to their infants twice a day to train their
bowels and allow moms to get back to work in the fields so they can feed their growing families. With more parents
r eturning to work sooner in the U.S., a potty - trained child can mean the difference between affordable daycare and
relying on extended family. Regardless of what potty - training looks like in your life, kids are resilient. Opening our
eyes and minds to other practices is good for them, but even better for us.
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Floods, Feces, and Flared
Tempers
A lack of sewage has everyone on edge in this
Indiana town
A sewer plant that needed to shut down in
Wolcottville, Indiana due to rising lake water
received an unexpected package on their doorstep. A few days after sewer services were cut to around 200 homes,
someone deli vered a pile of feces as a strong message that folks are frustrated. Town Clerk June Wood, who called
it "a slap in the face," responded via the town's website. "I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS OUT OF THE LAKE PEOPLE
BUT I AM NOT SURPRISED BY ANYTHING ANYMORE," wrot e Wood in all caps. The following week she posted
an apology and decided that posting updates on progress is more effective than accusations.
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