Your co-hosts are Lauren at Hobo Mama and Dionna at Code Name: Mama.
Here are the submission details for September 2010:
Theme: We're all home schoolers: Children, of whatever age, are learning all the time. Describe some of the ways your children learn at home as a natural part of their day. No matter if your children attend (or plan to attend) traditional schools or not, please talk to us about how you incorporate home-schooling or unschooling ideals and practices into your children's education.Deadline: Tuesday, September 7. Fill out the webform (at the link or at the bottom) and email your submission to us by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time: mail {at} HoboMama.com and CodeNameMama {at} gmail.com
Carnival date: Tuesday, September 14. Before you post, we will send you an email with a little blurb in html to paste into your submission that will introduce the carnival. You will publish your post on September 14 and email us the link if you haven't done so already. Once everyone's posts are published on September 14 by noon Eastern time, we will send out a finalized list of all the participants' links, to generate lots of link love for your site! We'll include full instructions in the email we send before the posting date.
Please submit your details into our web form: This will help us as we compile the links list. Please enter your information on the form embedded at the end of this post, or click here to enter it on a separate page: September Carnival of Natural Parenting participant form
Please do: Write well. Write on topic. Write a brand new post for the carnival. As always, our carnival themes aren't meant to be exclusionary. If your experience doesn't perfectly mesh with the carnival theme, please lend your own perspective. Please also feel free to be creative within the gentle confines of the carnival structure. If you're feeling so inspired, you could write a poem, a photo essay, a scholarly article, or a book review instead of a regular blog post (though those are welcomed, too!), as long as what you write is respectful of the carnival's intent. If you want help determining that ahead of time, please talk with us.
Please don't: Please don't use profanity of the sort that might be offensive to more sensitive readers or their children. Please don't submit irrelevant or argumentative pieces contrary to the principles of natural parenting. You don't have to agree with all our ideals — and certainly you don't have to live up to them all perfectly! — but your submission does have to fit the theme and values of the carnival.
Editors' rights: We reserve the right to edit your piece or suggest edits to you. We reserve the right to courteously reject any submissions that are inappropriate for the carnival. Please also note that since there are two co-hosts on different schedules and conferring over email, our personal response to your submission might seem delayed. Don't be alarmed. We also reserve the right to impose consequences if the responsibilities of the carnival are not fulfilled by the participants.
If you don't have a blog: Contact us (mail {at} HoboMama.com and CodeNameMama {at} gmail.com) about potentially finding you a host blog to guest post. Please write your piece well in advance of the deadline in that case, so we can match you up with someone suitable. But if you really have something amazing to write — why not start your own blog? If you want advice, we find Scribbit's free Blogging in Pink ebook to be a very helpful and down-to-earth guide, for beginners on up.
If you have questions: Please leave a comment or contact us: mail {at} HoboMama.com and CodeNameMama {at} gmail.com
Links to tutorials: Lauren and Dionna have written several tutorials for our participants about how to schedule posts in advance, how to determine post URLs in advance, how to edit HTML — all for both Wordpress and Blogger users. For these tutorials and more, please see this handy summary post at LaurenWayne.com.
Stay in touch:
- Bookmark the Carnival of Natural Parenting page, and check back for future themes.
- Subscribe to our RSS feeds: Hobo Mama's feed and Code Name: Mama's feed.
- Follow us on Twitter: @Hobo_Mama and @CodeNameMama.
- Check out our Facebook page and "like" us.
- Connect with us individually on Facebook: Hobo Mama on Facebook and Code Name: Mama on Facebook.
Show off: If you are a (former or current) participant or supporter and want our delightful button to put in your sidebar, grab this code and proclaim to the blogosphere that you are a natural parent!Photo courtesy vicki watkins on flickr (cc)
I'm Lauren Wayne, writer and natural parent. I embrace attached parenting with an emphasis toward green living. 
7 comments:
Is this a national event or for parents near your area?
International! We'd love to have you. More information on the monthly carnival is here: http://www.hobomama.com/p/carnival-of-natural-parenting.html
Love the pictures! That is so fun =) Thanks for hosting!
What a timely subject. I look forward to participating!
If I'm joining in from Australia do I need to try and get the post to publish on 14th September your time? Or can it go live on 14th September our time - which is roughly a day ahead?
Good question, Marita! In general, we let participants post after midnight in their own time zone, so our non-US/Canada bloggers are usually ahead of those of us here in the Western Hemisphere. However, most of the links in the link list won't be live until the majority of the participants post, so if you think that will confuse your readers, you're welcome to delay posting till later in your day when more of the others have posted. Does that help?
Here's a chart and a link to help you figure out how to convert your time zone if you'd like to post at a different time. It looks like 2 p.m. in NSW on Sept. 14 is midnight Eastern U.S. time. It's up to you what you think is best.
Fantastic. I might delay it to be closer to majority of participants.
That means I can do my regular Tuesday 'We Play' post also :)
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