Cohousing-L Mailing List: Kids Rules

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

A while back I mentioned my fears that a child would throw a ball up 
and dent our acoustical panels. Liz pointed out that we should have 
rules about that. We do but an interesting thing happened recently.

When older children are adopted into the community, you have to restart 
the rules. Suddenly the new boy who didn't know the rules started 
throwing the ball around and all the boys who knew the rules perfectly 
well, suddenly forgot them. I think, in fact, that they actually had 
forgotten it was a rule. They experienced it as a whole new concept.

Since we are looking forward to two more adoptions of older children we 
will have the same experience. As well as having to make new rules for 
3-4 year olds since we haven't had that age  group before.

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