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

[Abe Ross (cohoyote]

Sharon

Perhaps the problem is that there is no "best" when it comes to raising 
children.  Each generation, each family, believes that it has the 
"answer".  And then there are the pop psychology books on how to raise 
your children.

Abe

On 9/14/2022 4:09 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L wrote:
> > 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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