Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Communities and home schooling

[David Hungerford (dghungerford]

On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Rob Sandelin wrote:

speaking of children in cohousing:

>The educational opportunities are 
> enormous and endless.  I continue to be struck by the leadership skills 
> I have seen demonstrated by some of our cohousing kids.

This has been my observation as well with the kids living in Muir 
Commons, at least in most cases.  However, we have another causal 
variable to consider, that is, the type of parents who live in 
cohousing.  Kids "learn what they live" and living in a cohousing 
community with many models and expanded opportunities, while being taught 
the values of consensus-building, leadership, and responsibility seems 
bound to produce, at least on average, future adults with better life skills.

David Hungerford
Muir Commons

P.S.  I also can confirm Rob's observation that home-schooled kids tend 
toward being less socially capable, although cohousing presents the 
opportunity to mitigate that problem.