Exporting metadata only

Hi,
I'm a relativley unexperienced Lightroom user. I'm helping my parents edit a huge number of family photos and need to share changes across continenants. I have nearly 2000 photos I've flagged, rated and edited. My parents have the same images on a computer, but they have the original unedited scans. The filenames are the same on my computer as theirs. They also have access to LR.
Instead of uploading massive amounts of data to send all the image files to them, can I export the metadata only, which they can then load and sync up with their copies of the images to be able to see what I've done?
Thank you so much for any help! I feel like this is possible and have seen what appeared to be a reference to it, but I haven't been able to find any definitive explanation or directions.
Jim
ps: In case it makes a difference: When I look at the files in Finder, the filetype is *.jpg. Also, I have an old copy of LR 3. If it is something I can only do in the current version, I may be able to scrounge up money for an upgrade.

Hey guys, thanks very much for the quick responses. The flags are an important part of the deal since I have hundreds of them that I used to quickly mark which photos might be best for the final edited/polished collection and which could just be archived as is.
So, if sharing the catalog is the only way to share the flags, that will be the best way...except I’ll have to work out the version discrepancy. I’ll confirm, but my dad normally keeps current versions of all software.
If I can get myself upgraded, is the export/import catalogs process pretty easy?
i have all the photos in a folder which has several subfolders. Do I just r-click on that folder and select “export this folder as a catalog”?
And then how would my parents sync that up to their folder? (Their folder, to the best of my knowledge, has exactly the same directory structure and files in it.)
Thanks!
Jim

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File "C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_IDM1\server\bin\weblogicExportMetadata.py";,
line 22, in ?
File "C:\Oracle\MIDDLE~1\ORACLE~1\common\wlst\mdsWLSTCommands.py";, line 134, i
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File "C:\Oracle\MIDDLE~1\ORACLE~1\common\wlst\mdsWLSTCommands.py";, line 568, i
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