Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Children's "policies"

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

In our experience, rules created by non-parent adults seldom work. What has
worked best for us, and  our  32 kids, is having kid meetings, where kids
determine their own policies and how to police themselves.  Having at least
one adult mentor attached to the kids work makes it function much better. We
have also found that for many things about kids, we need to convene in
mid-spring the plans for summer. Whatever processes were in place for last
summer need to be retouched upon and recreated by the kids.  We have an
active parent/childrens team that organizes a rather amazing amount of kid
stuff over the summer.  


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Becky M. Pulito [mailto:Becky [at] Pulito.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:23 AM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ Children's "policies"

Hello!  I am looking for information regarding policies regarding children.
Anything regarding children.  And if you do not have policies regarding
children, I'd be interested in knowing that and why.  We are not built yet,
but we are brainstorming post move-in concerns among which children's issues
are included.

 

Thanks in advance!

~Becky of Camelot Cohousing

 

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