Best of Communities VIII - Children in Community

Best of Communities Magazine

Communities magazine is the leading publication for all topics related to intentional community. From the broad-stroked overviews to the intimate details, this quarterly publication covers it all. With so much content to explore, we’ve distilled it into a single compilation!

Volume VIII – Children in Community

Do children thrive in community? Many believe not only do they thrive, but so do their parents who have a wider and more accessible support network. Children gain more adults as role models as well as instant playmates. They may have intriguing facilities and landscapes to explore without taking a car ride to get there, and considerable options for education.

The following 22 articles will help you understand the benefits and challenges to raising children in community, as well as the myriad of learning options for children in this unique environment.

You will recognize authors leading the intentional community movement, representing cutting-edge thinking and how-to explorations of the social, ecological, and economic aspects of sustainable living.

Volume VIII includes the following articles:

1. Children in Community: Fairyland or Fairy Tale?
2. Raising and Educating Children in Community
3. Multiple Parenting in Community: The Advantages
4. Multiple Parenting in Community: The Disadvantages
5. Child-Adult Friendships, Part I
6. Child-Adult Friendships, Part II
7. Keeping Our Children Safe
8. My Tribal Childhood
9. Growing Up in the Miccosukee Land Co-op
10. The Person I Became
11. Who’s the Meta Tonight? Communal Child Rearing at Twin Oaks
12. Family Dramas
13. Parenting in Community:The Voyage from Fantasy to Reality
14. When an Ecovillage Is Raising Your Child
15. An Abundance of Dads
16. Second Family
17. Creating Family Where We Are Now: Building Sustainable Communities with the Next Generation Zane Hamm, #153
18. Growing Up in Ecovillage at Ithaca
19. Reminiscences: Growing Up in Intentional Community
20. Raising Superheroes: How Our Kids Are Learning to Use Their Power for Good
21. Esther and the Princess of the Fairies
22. Community, Public School, and Culture Clash: Food for Thought from Rural Missouri

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Volume VIII is part of a 15-volume compilation of the Best of Communities magazine. The set includes over 200 articles about intentional communities from the 1990’s and 2000’s. Purchase the entire set and save!

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