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From: Marty Roberts (MartyRsonic.net) | |
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:52:01 -0700 (MST) |
Hi Patty, Your post about your daughter ties right in with a "discussion" we are having currently at Two Acre Wood. We have an 11 year old girl - the oldest child in the community - who has been sitting in on our GMM's. Some people have been uncomfortable with this because they feel they have to adapt their comments, behavior, etc. to fit having a child in the room. Others feel it is great that she is interested. It has grown to a somewhat emotional level. I am curious to hear from other communities if they allow children in their business meetings and at what age does this generally begin. Patty's story is a great testament to the idea. Patty did your daughter start coming to meetings at age 10? Was it easily accepted by all? One other facet to this is that we made a group decision way back in the pre-development days, that we would all contribute to pay for good childcare (whether or not we had kids), in order to allow our meetings to be efficient and uninterrupted. So, there has been a general understanding of no kids in meetings. But now this child is too old for childcare, so..... Comments welcome - thanks-- Marty Roberts Two Acre Wood, Sebastopol, CA >Because my daughter Lauren was 10 when we first started attending meetings with the Tierra Nueva core group, and age 18 when we finally moved into our cohousing home (Tierra Nueva, central CA coast), she was steeped in group facilitation information, as well as conflict resolution. In addition, she was listened to, respected by the group and had a "thumb" (voting here uses a thumb up for approval, thumb sideways for "I have a question or concern", thumb down for block) _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Kids in meetings Marty Roberts, February 4 2002
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