Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: kids at meetings

[Eris Weaver (erisw]

    Marty said: "We have an 11 year old girl - the oldestchild in the
community -
    who has been sitting in on our GMM's.  ...I am curious to hear from
other communities
    if they allow children in their business meetings and at what age does
this generally begin.

While we have always had childcare for our meetings, our group norm seems to
be that small children are allowed to come in and out and pester their
parents during the meeting. Some of our members find this an attractive
feature of our meetings and would not like it if kids were forbidden; others
of us absolutely hate it and find it a huge distraction.  The issue has
probably not been discussed enough by the group at large -- I think that
probably some of those who hate it might be afraid to seem "anti-kid."

All of our kids are ten and under and this has been the case for most of our
time together. My now 16-year-old used to babysit and got majorly tired of
that; he has been to some meetings and at this point I think the group would
welcome his participation, but he's not interested.  (Like so many other
tasks -- when they're too little it's always "ME do it, ME do it" and as
soon as they're old enough to really help they'd rather have iron spikes
driven through their eyeballs.)

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Eris Weaver                                erisw [at] sonic.net

SoCoHo
http://www.sonic.net/~erisw/socoho.html
Sonoma County, Northern California

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