Welcome to the Kiwimums Message Boards!

These forums are community centred where you can connect with mums,dads, nanas grandmums, auntys, uncles, parents 2 be, friends etc . Before you start posting,please take a few minutes to read our guidelines.

Measures to protect your security - To protect your account, please make your password personal and difficult to guess, perhaps by including a number.

Responsibilities and rights - Please bear in mind that whatyou read in our community area is other users' opinions and stories.Anything you post will be public, andwe have the right to modify and publish, both on our site and in othermedia, any information that you put in a message.

It is your responsibility not to post anything which is illegal, for example, defamatory.

Kiwimums has the right to delete any post and terminate anyaccount (that is, ban a user) with or without notice, at any time andfor any reason, including, without limitation, our judgment that you'veviolated these Community Guidelines. We have no obligation to deletecontent that you find personally objectionable or offensive.

Kiwimums will remove messages if the personal informationcontained in them turns out to be untrue or the person posting is usingmultiple identities or is attempting to mislead people. Thoseresponsible for posting such messages will also be banned from usingthe site.

Privacy - For your own safety, never provide your password,telephone numbers, email address, or home address to anyone online.Also, be careful when posting photos and remember that any picture youdisplay could be copied and saved by another user.

Meeting other members - Please take care if you decide tomeet another member of a board. Be aware that people may not always bewho they claim. Let a friend know where you are going and tell themyou'll call them once you're back home, or even take a friend with you,and make sure you meet in a public place you know well.

Copyright - Please don't post anything you don't have theright to publish, or violate any copyright or other proprietary rightsin your posts.
 
Basic etiquette - Please don't
• post a message all in capitals,
• use offensive language,
• put the same message on more than one board,
• transfer issues or posts from one board to another,
• personally attack another user,
• or hit and run (for example, posting on a board where youwouldn't ordinarily post, simply to disagree with someone else'sactions, beliefs or comments).

 Advertising and solicitations - Please don't use our boards to solicit for goods, services, or money, or to advertise or sell products or services to others.

Mentioning other websites - Please don't mention or link to other parenting websites, especially those that also have forums.

Board silences (where members agree not to say anything fora time) - We fully understand that this is a good way to show supportand sympathy for someone's loss. However, we do have to try to balancethis by ensuring that anyone coming to the boards with an urgent queryor concern can post when they need to and without feeling uncomfortableabout doing so. For this reason, we ask that any silence is restrictedto a few minutes.

We are only an e-mail away. If you have any concerns you'd like us to address, please contact our staff at contact@kiwimums.com