Re: Hire Babysitters? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kathryn McCamant (kmccamantcohousing-solutions.com) | |
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:29:44 -0800 (PST) |
All the communities I have lived in (Doyle Street and Nevada City Cohousing), as well as communities I’ve worked with, have budgeted for childcare during meetings. IMHO, if you want kids in your community, the whole community needs to help support parents involvement from the earliest planning meetings. I even know of situations where the parent didn’t want to come to the meeting during the planning phase, but the kid wanted to see their buddies so drug the parent along. It tends to take a while for parents to get comfortable that there will be a good childcare options and worth bringing their kids, so keep offering it up even if it doesn’t work out a first. Katie -- Kathryn McCamant, President CoHousing Solutions 241B Commercial Street Nevada City, CA 95959 T.530.478.1970 C.916.798.4755 www.cohousing-solutions.com On 11/21/17, 8:32 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Elizabeth Magill" <cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on behalf of pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> wrote: We have a person who arranges childcare and a budget. The caregivers have been one outsider who came for years, then changing folk from time to time, a period where community teens did the work (for pay) and a period where the kids were old enough to not need/want a child caree person. And now we are back to young folk that need child care. Liz Mosaic Commons cohousing in Berlin MA On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote: > We have a workshare position for handling childcare needs to allow members > to attend meetings, and a budget to go with it. > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:16 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> > wrote: > >> Coho Folks — >> >> At Cornerstone in Cambridge, MA, we greatly value the maximum >> participation of everybody at our business meetings — most notably our >> monthly plenaries, but also committee meetings as well. But for our >> numerous families with small children, parental participation is often a >> challenge for both single parent AND two parent households. Accordingly, >> we’re now looking at proposal to fund babysitters during certain meetings, >> at a total annual cost estimated at $1700 (appx $53 per household). >> >> My question is: How do other communities liberate parents for meeting >> participation? Any details about your version of a babysitting pool? >> >> Thanks, >> Philip Dowds >> Cornerstone Village Cohousing >> Cambridge, MA >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: >> http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ >> >> >> > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > -- -Liz (The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org www.mosaic-commons.org 508-450-0431 _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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Hire Babysitters? R Philip Dowds, November 21 2017
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Re: Hire Babysitters? Muriel Kranowski, November 21 2017
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Re: Hire Babysitters? Elizabeth Magill, November 21 2017
- Re: Hire Babysitters? Kathryn McCamant, November 21 2017
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Re: Hire Babysitters? Elizabeth Magill, November 21 2017
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Re: Hire Babysitters? Muriel Kranowski, November 21 2017
- Re: Hire Babysitters? Kathy Tymoczko, November 21 2017
- Re: Hire Babysitters? Sharon Villines, November 22 2017
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