Cohousing-L Mailing List: Pets, Parents, Pesticides [ was dealing with difficult conversations

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Sep 13, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Kathleen Lowry <kathleenlowrylpcclmft [at] 
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sharon, Great list thanks! Your comment about agreeing on the facts! Yes so 
> important. So hard to know the facts when  talking about things like “ what’s 
> best for our kids!” 

The three Ps of cohousing. Pets, parents, pesticides. 

The thing that surprises me most is that we don’t have more conversations about 
kids and what is “best” for them. The conversation is what do we believe they 
learn from this or that? 

Probably the best way to do this is sharing what each of us has experienced and 
what it gave us. Or what we have observed with another child. Not what we think 
but what we have observed, or think we have observed.

But each parent always believes that their children are unique and "could never 
handle that.” We now have a sofa in the kids room because some parents stay in 
the kids room it seems with the kids until they are 3 or 4. 

Eastern Village did a program in which the elders told the children what their 
own lives had been like when they were their age. That would be fascinating. It 
would also be interesting to have the children explain what their lives are 
like from their point of view.

When my son started preschool I asked him how he liked his teacher. He didn’t 
know who that was. I described what teachers do in the classroom. He responded, 
“No, she isn’t on the school bus.” 

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