Welcome to the EP Forum!

We’re excited to see you here, and hope you’ll enjoy talking to other parents in our community about the issues that affect you most. Please don't hesitate to comment on topics, ask questions, join conversations and add new threads—and you can also suggest new topics of your own by contacting our Board Administrator.

We ask a few simple things of our forum participants:

• Please play nicely: Do not post any disrespectful, insulting or offensive comments about other participants. No profane or sexually explicit words, please.
• Please do not use the forum to post information or links advertising your business or website without permission. (If the content is helpful for other parents, we will consider posting it if you send your inquiry to the Board Administrator first.)
• We ask that you do not give details of possible or pending legal situations or law suits in your comments, as that is against our forum and site commenting policy.
• We ask our members not to discuss child abuse situations on our forum. If you have any questions regarding child abuse, please call the National Child Abuse Hotline on 800-422-4453.
• If you suspect your child or someone close to you is contemplating suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
• Please don’t start threads to discuss other members’ behavior or statements. We want to empower parents, and make sure everyone feels safe and able to talk in a judgment-free zone on the EP Forum.
• If you see any messages that seem defamatory, or where people are using the forum to advertise products, or are using profane language, etc., please alert the moderator of the forum or the Board Administrator.
• We reserve the right to delete any message or to remove the registration and membership of any individual at any time if they disrespect the rules of the forum or insult other members of the EP Community.

Thanks again for joining the forum. We’re excited to have you here in our parenting community! And remember, we’re all in this together.

—Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
and The Empowering Parents Staff