Editorial and Fact-Checking Policy
This policy explains how the practical guides on Growing Up with Amara are produced. Its purpose is to make the who, how, and why behind the content visible to readers.
Why These Guides Exist
The site has one focus: practical, low-pressure family activities for a child around ages 2–3, especially bilingual language, shared reading, early maths, play, and everyday connection.
The guides are written to help a parent use one idea safely and realistically. They are not produced to cover unrelated trending topics, repeat every possible search phrase, or meet an arbitrary word count.
Experience and Originality
Every activity guide must link to a dated original family diary record and use a family-created picture from that record. The blog article should add value by answering one parent question, reducing the full diary plan to a clear activity, and stating practical limits.
The English and Chinese pages are equivalent versions for different readers. They are not separate doorway pages and should link back to each other.
Parent Reading and Book-Based Articles
The parent reading collection uses books as starting points for reflection, not as substitutes for reading the books. Each article selects one idea, explains it in the site's own words, applies it to an original illustrative family situation, and adds practical steps, sample language, questions for the adult, and limits.
Book metadata and attribution are checked against the publisher's official page. Articles do not copy chapters, reproduce long passages, claim that an invented scenario came from the book, or present one author's framework as universal fact. Public health, university, or professional child-development sources are used separately to check factual and safety boundaries. The site does not currently use affiliate links for these books; any future commercial relationship would be disclosed clearly.
Sources and Fact Checking
Claims about child development, responsive interaction, early maths, safety, sleep, communication, or well-being should be checked against an appropriate public source. Preferred sources include government health agencies, universities, and recognised early-childhood organisations.
Sources are linked near the end of each article. A source supports the factual boundary; it does not imply that the organisation endorses this website or the specific activity.
AI Assistance
AI may assist with topic organisation, draft structure, translation, consistency checks, metadata, and internal linking. It must not be used to invent family experiences, professional credentials, quotations, research findings, or publication dates.
Each guide discloses AI assistance. The linked original diary and image remain the experience base.
Safety and Medical Boundaries
These guides are educational family content, not medical, diagnostic, psychological, or therapeutic advice. Articles should:
- avoid diagnosing a child from one behaviour or activity;
- name foreseeable hazards and offer a picture-only alternative when useful;
- respect refusal, sensory preferences, and body boundaries;
- direct readers to a qualified professional when an individual concern requires assessment.
Dates, Updates, and Corrections
Publication and modification dates must describe real changes. A date is not changed merely to make an article look fresh.
Substantial corrections should update the affected statement, source, safety boundary, or activity instructions. Minor typography fixes do not need a new date. Readers can raise a correction through the site's public comment system on the relevant page.
Search and Advertising
Search optimisation is applied to descriptive titles, headings, internal links, image text, structured data, language annotations, and sitemaps. Keywords should not be repeated unnaturally, and advertisements must remain distinguishable from the main content.
This policy follows the principles in Google's guidance for helpful, reliable, people-first content and its spam policies.
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