Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Unsupervised Kids in the commonhouse

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 12/13/2002 12:19 PM, "PattyMara Gourley" <pattymara [at] juno.com> wrote:

> We've also had our brushes with mild delinquency.  [snip]  All the friends,
> and their parents were
> included in the agreement, and payment was made over the course of
> several months by the all boys.  They also did the work of spackling and
> repainting the walls.   Bruce's relationship with the member teen, which
> was minimal before the incident, was enhanced by the interaction (and
> compensation).

This is such a great thing to do. My brother once picked a flower for a
girlfriend out of a neighbor's garden. The flower was a potentially
prize-winning peony for which the owner quickly requested compensation in
yard work. In process he became a surrogate father for my brother, much to
the satisfaction of both. Many years later my brother was very proud of  his
own several acre landscaped yard.

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

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