Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Senior's needs? (was Achieving age diversity)

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Deborah Mensch wrote:

> What distinguished the community in our conversation was the homogeneity
> of values related to child-rearing in that community. (Several families
> there have kids who attend a local Waldorf school, which implies a
> likely constellation of shared values.) When a community forms around
> the kinds of values the Petaluma community has, and which Lia describes,
> a lot of positive community influence on the children is possible in the
> areas covered by the shared values.

Hi,

It's probably useful to remember that Waldorf practices are highly
coercive and indeed uniform. When Steiner invented the 'method' in 1919 he
was on a roll, engineering his own ideals of what childhood development
should be. It is probably beyond the scope of this listserve (cohousing
being the topic) but is important that folks don't get the wrong
impression that a quiet, civil meal for adults is a reasonable or healthy
situation for children.

Do reexamine your values on this one.

Danny
Baltimore CoHousing

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