Please take a few minutes to review these submission guidelines.
We tried to cover any questions you might have about what kind of content we want. Please see our separate Submission Terms of Use before submitting . If you have a question and it’s not covered here, please email us.
At The Daily Parents Blog & Journal (The Daily PBJ), we are dedicated to providing a creative and supportive environment for families. We want to bring together original content written by everyday parents with great content from around the internet. At The Daily PBJ, we want to hear from everyday parents about their struggles, concerns, ideas, suggestions and successes and failures.
We are looking for submissions on family-centric topics that will appeal to parents anywhere. You don’t have to be a professional writer. Family life is not perfect and your writing doesn’t need to be either. There are bumps and bruises, mistakes and missteps along the way. We get it, and we want that reflected in your writing. However, you should not be offended if our editorial staff makes small suggestions. We don’t want to change your story, sometimes we just might need little grammatical fixes.
There are a lot of stories to be told out there, and The Daily PBJ can’t respond to all submissions. Our review process could take up to 2 weeks or more, depending on how many great posts we get. Be patient, we may get to it yet.
The Basics
- Family centric material. It is a site about family life, after all.
- Original content only. We will not publish as original anything that’s been published, in part or in whole, someplace else.
- No cheating. Give proper source credit to anything you get from someplace else: data, quotes, 3rd person content referenced in your writing (like a great recipe you found someplace else).
- Funny, helpful, thought-provoking, sad, happy articles. Family life is all of these and more, we want to hear all about it.
- Keep it to 500 to 1,500 words. On occasion, we might run something outside this range, if it’s really great stuff. But really, you’re all busy, who’s got time for more than 1,500 articles at one sitting.
The Different Kinds of Posts
- Personal accounts – something that happened to you or your family
- Observations – a topic that you find interesting, amusing or thought provoking, with your personal insights
Not Wanted
- Anything that is purely promotional (too heavily promoting a personal company, product or organization)
- Offensive or inaccurate articles – we’re trying to be supportive here, people
- Anything that is over-the-top critical of an individual, group of individuals or company. Again, trying to be supportive.
- Articles that have been published elsewhere. We will look to incorporate great content from all over the Internet, and we’ll share it when we find it. We want your submissions to be shiny and new.
How to Submit
Please refer to The Daily PBJ Submission Terms and Conditions page for any questions about how the submission process works, and to submit your story.