Our community chat room is designed to give you an opportunity to discuss your issues online with one another. It may be that you can share ideas, advice and experiences or you may just want to talk to someone who is in the same situation as you. Remember that you all have at least one thing in common and that is that you have children. Most of you will also be lone parents and many of you may still be experiencing the anguish involved in a relationship breakdown. So it is safe to say that you will all have a lot to talk about and share with one another, regardless of your age, background or gender.

*This chat room is not patrolled or monitored by planetoneparent and therefore planetoneparent cannot be held responsible for any of the content displayed. This is your chat room and so please feel free to police it in the event that you are joined by undesirable visitors. Please also refrain from using abusive language.

* On your first visit to our chat room you will need to register your 'nick'(nickname). As with most chat rooms we suggest that you do not use your 'real' name.

* Please take care when you key in your name and password as the boxes are sensitive to lower and upper case text. Do not leave gaps between letters, names or words.

* Adding full information about yourself and your e-mail address is optional.

* You are able to post messages to individual users in private - use the drop down menu at the bottom of the chat room to select this facility.

*The options menu is also found at the bottom of the chatroom page. Here you can change the colour of your posts, which is nice because you can easily differentiate between users. Also in options you can set "last post top", this will avoid scrolling down if you are using a small computer screen.

* Click on 'users' on the right hand side and current visitors in the chat room will be shown there.

* As a general safety note, don't disclose your private address. If you arrange to meet with someone, meet initially in a public place and tell someone details of your arrangements. Don't take lifts from someone until you know them well enough.