Core Values

  • We help families spark meaningful and ongoing dialogues to learn to think critically and make their own decisions.
  • We believe children are human beings, worthy of respect and honest communication.
  • Any piece that discusses a specific culture or group of people will prioritize voices from within that community, whether as sources, sensitivity readers, writers, editors, or a combination.
  • Everyone who works in this space and holds these or similar values are potential collaborators, not competitors. 
  • We practice Conscious and Inclusive Editing to uplift values of equity, compassion, accuracy, and respect. 
  • We understand that every person holds unconscious bias; our Creative Editor holds privilege as a middle-class, able-bodied, cissexual, heterosexual white woman and will stay open to all feedback regarding an unintentional use of discriminatory or exclusionary language.
  • We will default to person-first language, except where a majority of a group may prefer another reference, such as “autistic” versus “person with autism,” and such examples may be determined case by case.
  • We understand that language is fluid, and will stay open to new ways of thinking about conscious and inclusive language and editing.