[Deptheads] Child Care at the Convention

[Eric Burgess]

"Volunteer-run"? Lots of nice people volunteer to help out at the con but to
be honest, that scares me both from a legal perspective and as a parent. I
think we would need to have bonded child care providers in there or this
wouldn't work. You only need one bad situation for it to all go very, very
wrong.

That said, if we reach out beyond the gamer community, you can find people
that qualify that will work for a reasonable rate (pre-school teachers
looking for some extra money, say) but there would be a cost involved to be
sure.

-- 
...ERB

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On Feb 11, 2008 2:42 PM, Eric M. Aldrich I <ealdrich at penguinlust.org> wrote:

> It got brought up at our December 2006 meeting, if I remember right.
>
> If we were to do it, we'd have to put it in the La Jolla  or San Jose(?)
> room, I'd guess. It would have to be volunteer run. If nothing else, we
> could get parents to each take a 4-hour shift and plan it out in advance.
> This might be worth trying to set up for Gamex.
>
> Those of you are actual parents here -- do you think this would be
> workable?
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:22:29PM -0800, Janice Sellers wrote:
> >  [...]
>  > As I mentioned earlier, a convention I used to attend in Boston had an
> > excellent children's activity track.  I talked with somebody about the
> > possibility of doing something similar, though smaller in scale, at
> > the Strategicon conventions.  At this point I don't remember if it was
> > Rocky or Eric (sorry, it was a while ago, and I have too much on my
> > mind right now).  As I also mentioned, it took lots of volunteers to
> > make it work, because it does take extra effort to coordinate
> > children.  I even had one of my regular volunteers express interest in
> > helping with the children's track if we get one going.  But we'll
> > definitely need more than the one person for it be effective.
> >
> > Janice
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