Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Teen room advice request

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

> The current teens grew up in the community, and are a more
> integrated part of it. They also don't object nearly as strongly as their
> older peers did to the adults using the room, as we now do occasionally.
--snip-- If they don't want to be a part of the
> community, they should not have a room devoted to their use.

This is an interesting point -- that the teens need to see themselves as
participants in the larger community in order to ask and expect to reap the
benefits of it. Use of a room should be granted on the same basis as other
rooms. Teen members should be treated as other members with special
interests would be. Teens use other rooms and others will occasionally use
theirs. Rooms have primary purposes but when needed by the community they
are temporarily used for something else.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org



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