Parenting Group

Hi all,

I am about to embark on setting up a parenting group at my kids' school. The principal is supportive in arranging me a venue and that's it. Of course with the budget cut (too little time and money and too much to handle), I am not expecting much. I know I'll have to take on a lot of the ground work myself (hopefully getting more parents involved later on).

My main purpose is to meet up with other parents to form a support group, to learn, to share and to have fun.
I realized that I need to have a website/forum for communication. I know there are free websites we could use. I don't have a lot of experience in that area and it will take time to do it. I also planned to draft out waiver of liabilities form for parents to sign when they come in (especially when kids might be playing in the school compound).

That leads the questions here :-

1. Do any of you happen to know of any good and easy to use sites for groups.

2. Do you know, are there high possibilities of liabilities of any sort involved with running this -both website and personal group?

3. Do you have a draft copy of that sort of thing where I could just modified from and use?

4. Are waiver form any good (I supposed they are otherwise doctors won't use it) but I don't really know and don't have money for legal advice.

5. Is there a place I could get free legal advice?

The main purpose of the site is for posting related articles on parenting,events, for parents interactions, questions, comments, brain-storming, etc...

Thanks for your feedback and help.

Thats not much, but i hope it helps.

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An easy website to use may be yahoo, I believe you can start a group for free there and I have heard it's easy. You may want to consider searching for some other groups in your state similar to the one you are starting and maybe the leaders can give you some advice on the legal stuff and the waivers.

I'm not a parent nor do I have experience with parenting groups and such, but you could try to get them to download a program called Skype. You can have large audio and text conversations on it. Download it for free (only pay if you call computer to phone). But, can only do video to video with 1 person at a time, so audio and text would be good. Free for computer to computer calls.

Or, try stickam.com. It's a site where you can have video, audio and text chats, although maximum for video I think is.. 8 or 10. That requires no installation, unless you need to update the software. You can make a private room on it password protected.

There's also yahoo, MSN, etc.. .

Well I wish there is qualified individual who could give me legal advice. There is no leader and the principal of my son's school is refrain to say give any legal advice at all.

I was hoping to set up a site with freeweb so people could access it right away without having to register as a yahoo or facebook member. That way it's more straight forward. However, I am concern about the possible liability involved. I don't have a lot of time to search a real lot, so I was hoping to get direct info. or link from anyone here if any.

Thanks for your advice, I really appreciate it.

Have a Great Day!

Thanks for that info. and yes I am already a skype user. However, I find that people do take time to get this installed into the computer. I know the installation is simple and quick but people need to have the speaker and headphone attached to their computer in order to use this. That is the part that they get stuck.

Thanks anyway for your input.

Blessings!

They don't need a headset nor speaker. They could simply type via text, although speakers and headsets would make it easier.

Oh thanks, I didn't know that.

With appreciation!