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Contributors' Guidelines
Beginning with the July/August 2008 issue, Life
Learning magazine was reintegrated back into
Natural Life magazine, where it
began over three decades ago. Natural Life is one of
the oldest and most respected natural lifestyle publications in
North America and a pioneer in the fast growing field of
healthy, sustainable family living. In the 1970s, it published some of the first homeschooling articles to appear in a North American magazine.
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how people of all ages learn - what helps and what hinders This site discusses positive, concrete details about how learning occurs without teaching and about how to put the idea into practice. We are especially looking for real-life personal experiences of people of all ages who have learned on their own; articles about how we have been limited by a society that believes in compulsory schooling and how we can transcend those limits; and stories about how parents have "deschooled" themselves in order to help their children and themselves learn. Life Learning articles challenge the assumptions related to "experts", learning as a result of being taught, and the trappings of school, such as grading, testing, curriculum and hierarchy. We do not publish "advertorials" or articles reviewing or promoting products or services. Here is more information on our ethics policy. We use gender-neutral language and appreciate our writers structuring their work to avoid referring to all people as "he" (accepted articles will be edited to reflect this policy if necessary). Our readers are located in the U.S.A., Canada, the U.K., Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries around the world. Therefore, articles should not focus on any one country. 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, to publish it in print in Natural Life magazine. 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. 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
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In addition, we are seeking writers for this website, which
continues to be a source of inspiration and information, as well as
community, for parents interested in green, healthy living from
pregnancy through birth and early childhood. Here are some guidelines
for web content:
