Claudia and the Great Search - Part 2 - Chapters 06 - 10

[leaby]

Part 1

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[laina_inverse]

What sort of preschool are they LOOKING at? The one I worked at, your kids didn't have to be potty trained, and when the parent started teaching, we'd HELP (which led to many interesting and gross moments, but.... working with toddlers leads to those.)

Oh Claudia. You ridiculous, poor thing.

[design_star_21]

My sister works in a preschool and changes diapers and helps potty train. This has to be one high end preschool.

[laina_inverse]

Or one with extremely unrealistic expectations. Hell, we had kids as old as four and five still trying to master it, and we never said they couldn't show up.

[leaby]

Yup - my sister is a reception teacher (sort of an entry year into education, probably kindergarten equivalent) and gets children that aren't potty trained... I'd say that is abnormal at 4/5 though (I'd assume not the disaster Kristy thinks it is, mind).

[laina_inverse]

It was pretty rare, but it did happen. Stress on kids does cause them to occasionally regress into previous levels of development. Also those with developmental issues came by.

[fairest1]

Given that the Watson-Brewer clan tends to take the most hands-off approach to parenting ever (minimal notice of letting existing children know they're adopting, getting a babysitter on visitation weekends, letting EM run around in only a diaper) I'm wondering if they figured a preschool would mean they'd need to go to the trouble of dressing her, driving her in and driving her home each day, and not wanting to go to that trouble just told the other kids the preschool wouldn't take kids who weren't potty trained.

[laina_inverse]

....what's sad is that with the oh-so-stellar parenting of this particular series, that wouldn't surprise me in the least.