[House] [william.a.eden at gmail.com: [R&P] Group trip this summer?]
Robin Lee Powell
rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org
Tue Jun 18 22:40:25 PDT 2019
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:47:19 -0700
From: William Eden <william.a.eden at gmail.com>
To: rationality-and-parenting-bay-area at googlegroups.com
Subject: [R&P] Group trip this summer?
Howdy folks,
So at the last R&P get-together, we had some discussion about the idea of
doing a longer stretch together as a group.
Basically, my observation has been that a once/month frequency isn't quite
enough on its own to get the kids to gel together that well. Many of our
kids (though certainly not all) are pretty introverted, and I think they do
warm up over the course of the few hours... in time for everyone to leave
and go home. When I originally conceived the group, I anticipated people
hanging out outside of group time, which would serve some of this purpose,
and there have been periods of time where this did occur (e.g. Lydia
hanging out with Kelly and Francis regularly), but for most pairs of folks
it's stayed inside the monthly meetup.
I suspect that there are returns to scale of spending longer stretches of
time together, and that this will be semi-permanent as the kids forge
context they can rely on even with monthly follow ups.
So, with that in mind - who is up for doing a longer group trip together?
I'm personally pretty flexible as to what this looks like.
Location: I've previously had good experiences with things like renting a
cabin in the woods with friends, giving lots of time together and lots of
fun nature to explore in the immediate area. At the last R&P I heard some
folks voice a preference for multiple separate units over one large one,
which makes sense. My guess about what that looks like involves renting
multiple units that are very close / part of the same complex. I think we
get the best results if we are all close to each other, and that it's not
too dispersed with other people/activities around - e.g. I imagine staying
at a resort or going on a cruise would be fun, for instance, but I think
that might result in folks mostly going off and doing their own thing? (I'm
also totally down for a fun trip, btw, I just don't know if it optimizes
what I'm talking about here.)
Length: I'm basically down to go for as long as other folks could
reasonably go! Just a Sat/Sun weekend would probably be helpful, but it
would need to be close by to get enough time together, and I suspect we'd
get significantly more benefit even if we could extend to a long 3-day
weekend. I'm open to something longer than 3 days, but I also want to be
sensitive to those with more difficult/busy schedules.
This post is mostly intended to start a discussion. I'd appreciate it if
each family could chime in with:
1) Does this sound like something you want to do, full stop?
2) If so, how long of a trip could/would you want to do?
3) Given that, do you have any specific proposals in terms of where you'd
want to go or what it would look like?
Thanks everyone!
Will
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