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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.

When my husband Rolf and I launched Natural Life magazine in 1976, the purpose was twofold. We wanted an enterprise that would allow us to facilitate the life learning of our two daughters and we wanted to provide readers with information about sustainable family living and unschooling. For 32 years now, we have explored ways to eat lower on the food chain; to build smaller, more energy-efficient homes; to birth our children at home, to educate them there as well, and to live with them in a loving and non-coercive manner. Natural Life's mission has been to demonstrate how these are not restrictions, but exciting opportunities to create social and environmental sustainability by choosing the least harmful ways of living on this finite planet and building new paradigms.

Most of the wonderful contributors to Life Learning magazine are writing for Natural Life. And we invite you to do so as well. Here are Natural Life's contributor's guidelines.

Toddler writing on computerIn 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:

Life Learning is a forum for trustworthy, inspiring information and intelligent discussion about self-directed, life-based and community-based learning. Readers of and contributors to Life Learning work together to:

* Explore how people of all ages learn - what helps and what hinders
* Investigate ways to help children learn (and what we can learn from them about our own learning)
* Be inspired by other people's life learning experiences.

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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