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The children who have contributed items for the Kids Pages live in Australia and all are educated at home by their parents.

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Email your item after you have read the following. Please write 'Kids Pages Submission' in the subject line of your email. Thank you!

  • Items must be original and the work of the author.
  • Please check your spelling. Read aloud your item to check grammar and flow. We prefer correct spelling and grammar but understand that some children will prefer their stories published unedited. If you wish me to edit your contribution please ask.
  • Items that contain offensive material (bad language, graphic sex or violence) will not be accepted.
  • You can use a psuedonym (false name) if you like, but we need your real name and email address so that we can check that all submissions are genuine.
  • Important! We will reply to your email asking for permission from your parent to allow us to publish the item you have sent. Parents can choose the level of information that is to be displayed in connection with their child's work. We only publish children's first names.
  • Send us pictures and photos in .jpg, .gif, .bmp or .png format. We can reformat images in MS Word documents or pdfs.
  • Long items may be divided into two or more pages.
  • Publication of an item is at Beverley's discretion. It may take a week or two before your item appears on the Kids Pages. You will be sent an email with a link to your item when it is published.
  • We prefer to publish items created by homeschooled and unschooled children but are happy to consider items from parents if they relate to homeschooling or education. Parents are welcome to submit items for publication on our parent site, The Educating Parent.
  • We do not disclose the information we collect to any third party.
  • Submission and inclusion on the Kids Pages automatically includes permission by the parent or guardian of the children submitting items for items to be published in an eNewsletter edition of The Educating Parent.
  • If you wish to remove your item from these pages, send us an email with a description of the item and the child's name as well as the url (web address) of the page you found it on. It's important to understand that Google and other search engines keep cached copies of web pages, so even if the item has been removed from this site it may still appear in a Google search for a while.

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