Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Age-restricted access to common house?

[Beverly Jones Redekop (beverly.jones.redekop]

Thank you for continuing the conversation: I am grateful to read how each
community manages access to the common house for different ages. We had a
community wellness forum on Saturday the 10th to discuss this topic, and
we're giving it another go on Monday the 19th. The first one was rather
unpleasant, but I am trying to keep my heart open enough to give the second
one another chance.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 9:15 AM Jenny Guy <jenstermeister [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Beverly, maybe open a dialog about what problems the rule is meant to
> address (5 y/o's playing ninja with the kitchen knives, and many other
> things that have been mentioned in this thread), and ask your community to
> try to come up with a policy that would prevent those things, while
> allowing a responsible 9 y/o to read a book in the CH. Of course, that's
> probably exactly what you're doing....
>
> I think a blanket "no kids under 13 w/o supervision" was probably a great
> starting point when your community was new, and folks didn't know what
> situations would come up. It's easy to spend way too much time on
> hypotheticals that might never be an issue, so starting out with a basic,
> simple safeguard was a good idea. Now it looks like it's time for your
> community to work on a more nuanced approach, since things will always be
> changing, with different kids of different ages.
>
> Jenny Guy
> Kingfisher Cohousing, Oakland Calif.
>
> Message may have been dictated with voice recognition; please excuse odd
> typos.
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