What is the BPN?
The Berkeley Parents Network is a parent-run email forum for 26,345 parents who live in the Berkeley, California area. Volunteers compile submissions from subscribers and mail out 7 different newsletters each week. Many of the discussions from the newsletters are later archived to our website. BPN gives busy parents an easy way to help and support each other by posting a message to one of the newsletters. Members can ask questions about parenting, give advice to other parents, find out about local resources and community events, look for childcare, sell household items, and more. Most people find us via our website. However, the website is just an archive of past discussions from the newsletters. The core of the Berkeley Parents Network is the email newsletters that go out to subscribers almost every day. The BPN is not a “service” for parents. There are no BPN employees who are paid to provide a service. It is all run by volunteers. None of us are trying to make money off the network,
