Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rules for kids at common dinners

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

No, and I have to say, I disagree with Joani about the meal time. Many of
our youngsters like to play after dinner, and if it starts at 7, it's too
late for those with early bedtimes. We have dinner at 6, and it's worked out
well for us. This is a good illustration of the fact that every community is
different-we have more children than the communities that Joani has lived
in.

I think a common tea sounds nice-maybe the cohousers in the UK and other
commonwealth countries can start that! We have very few people who are home
at that time.
-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
> From: Maggi Rohde <maggi [at] intranet.org>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:14:45 -0700 (MST)
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Rules for kids at common dinners
> 
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Joani Blank wrote:
>> One thing to do is to serve dinner pretty late on workdays, like 7:00.
>> This can be a problem for parents of young kids who are used to having
>> dinner much earlier. But some communities decide they can live with
>> that. Also, surprisingly young kids can learn to eat later because they
>> so enjoy the social aspects of the common meal.  And a healthy snack at
>> 4:30 or 5:00 can stave off those hunger pangs until dinner comes around.
> 
> Do any communities represented here have a "common tea" or formal/informal
> afternoon snack-thing?
> 
> -Maggi
> 
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