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Contributors' Guidelines
Natural Child Online Magazine
is an source of trustworthy, inspiring information
to help parents birth and
raise healthy, happy children...naturally!
 Natural
Child is a positive but non-preachy source of
information for parents who want to explore environmentally-sound family
life for the sake of their children and the Earth. We believe that mothers
and fathers are experts about what is best for the well-being of their own
families. We provide a place for them to share natural living strategies for
their families. We seek to support them in their choices and in their search
for unbiased facts that provide an alternative to the information found in
traditional consumer parenting magazines. We support breastfeeding, cloth
diapering, complementary health care, organics and all things natural.
Our
focus is on green family living. Examples of topics for which we seek
website submissions include: healthy pregnancy, feeding your child
naturally, vegetarian babies, making your own organic baby food,
creating a natural nursery, environmentally sound cleaning strategies,
connecting children to nature, natural childhood remedies, natural
family fun and play, non-competitive games, holistic grandparenting,
homebirth, breastfeeding issues, babywearing, cosleeping, vaccination
pros and cons, circumcision pros and cons, non-coercive parenting and
non-violent communication.
Editorial Style
Since
our website visitors live around the world, our articles need to reflect
that. Please avoid using local slang or other terminology, as well as
references to specific seasons or weather. Resources, where provided,
should be as international in scope as possible.
We do not publish "advertorials" or articles promoting
products or services.
We use gender-neutral language and appreciate our writers
structuring their work to avoid referring to all people as "he". If
necessary, accepted articles will be edited to reflect this policy.
Articles include both mothers and fathers, and focus on outcomes for
children. They must include a sensitivity to child health and the
environment.
How to Query Us
Please query first by email with an outline of your
proposed article and a bit of background about you and your experience
with the topic and with writing. We appreciate knowing if your article
has been published elsewhere - either in print or on the web - in the
past, or if you have submitted it elsewhere recently. We are unable to
pay contributors.
By submitting an article to us, you are giving us your
permission to publish and archive the article on this website and,
possibly publish it in print in Natural Life magazine, which we also publish. Writers retain
all other rights to their work, and are therefore free to contribute
their articles to other magazines or web sites without our permission.
However, as a courtesy, we ask that you not publish the article anywhere
else while it is on the homepage of the website. If
we accept your article and wish to publish it in Natural Life magazine,
you will be sent a contract reflecting our copyright licensing
requirements.
Your article will be edited for spelling, punctuation,
grammar, clarity, space and consistency in tune with our editorial
style. If major renovations are required, your article will be returned
to you for reworking.
Wendy Priesnitz, Editor
revised June, 2008
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