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Contributors' Guidelines
 Natural
Child Magazine is a positive, open-minded, non-preachy digital
magazine for parents who want to explore
conscious, environmentally-sound,
healthy 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.
Our
focus is on green family living. Examples of topics for which we seek
website submissions include: green living with young
children, healthy pregnancy, feeding your child naturally,
vegetarian babies, making your own organic baby food, 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 readers 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. The
length of your article is not as important for a digital magazine as it
would be for print. However, we prefer articles of approximately 2,500
words; please discuss length with us prior to writing, if possible.
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.
Our articles include both mothers and fathers, and focus on outcomes for
children. They must include a sensitivity to child health and the
environment.
Natural Child Magazine is primarily reader-supported.
We do not publish "advertorials" or articles promoting
or mentioning products or services.
We support the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing
of Breastmilk Substitutes and do not publish articles
about bottle feeding.
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.
Since our readers pay for their subscriptions, we try not to publish
material that is currently available elsewhere. We are unable to
pay contributors but are happy to link to your
personal or business website or blog.
By submitting an article to us, you are giving us your
permission to publish the article in a specific issue
of Natural Child
Magazine, to archive the issue on this website
and, at our discretion, feature it on the free section of this website.
Writers retain all other rights to their work, and are therefore free to
contribute their articles to other magazines or websites without our
permission. However, as a courtesy, we ask that you not publish the
article anywhere else until it's been published by
us, and during the two-month period while the
issue in which it appears is current.
We welcome photographs to accompany articles; we require photo releases
in order to publish photos of people. If the subject(s) are not your
children, we require written permission from the children's parent or
guardian.
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.
Editorial deadlines are the first of
December, February, April, June, August, and October.
Contact
Wendy Priesnitz, Editor by email:
NCEditor@LifeMedia.ca
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