Since 2010, Green Child has been a trusted resource for families seeking calmer, healthier, and more intentional parenting. Our award-winning publication combines natural parenting, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, non-toxic living, and nature-based learning to help parents raise resilient kids with confidence.
Hailed as “good for a green mama’s soul,” Green Child is an inclusive community for parents who value compassion, critical thinking, and thoughtful conversations about raising children. We believe the best parenting blends research with intuition, giving families the confidence to make informed decisions that align with their own values.
Whether you’re looking for guided meditations, nervous system tools, healthy recipes, outdoor activities, parenting guidance, or carefully researched non-toxic product recommendations, you’ll find practical resources created to support your whole family. Our goal is to help you feel informed, encouraged, and never judged as you create a healthier, more intentional life together.
We believe children’s physical health, emotional wellbeing, and connection to the natural world are deeply intertwined—and that small, thoughtful choices each day can have a lifelong impact.
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Our Editorial Focus
You’ll hear from a variety of experts in the green living and natural parenting space. Over the past 16 years, Green Child has hosted outstanding expert contributors from all over the world. These contributors and our own team share their expertise about…
Positive Parenting
At Green Child, we believe children thrive when they’re treated with respect, empathy, and curiosity. Positive parenting isn’t about permissiveness or perfection — it’s about understanding child development, responding to behavior with compassion, and building the kind of relationship that lasts a lifetime.
Explore expert interviews, evidence-informed parenting articles, and practical strategies that support emotional regulation, healthy communication, positive discipline, and mindful parenting. Whether you’re navigating toddler tantrums, big emotions, sibling conflict, or the teen years, you’ll find thoughtful guidance that helps your whole family grow together.
Raising Kids in Nature
Time in nature helps children build confidence, resilience, creativity, and a lifelong appreciation for the world around them. Whether it’s climbing trees, observing wildlife, tending a garden, or simply slowing down outside, meaningful experiences in nature support physical health, emotional wellbeing, and healthy child development.
Explore our collection of outdoor activities, nature crafts, gardening projects, environmental education, forest school inspiration, and screen-free ideas that help families reconnect with the natural world — one adventure at a time.
Mindfulness, Guided Meditation, & Emotional Wellbeing
Mindfulness helps children (and adults) develop self-awareness, emotional resilience, and the ability to navigate life’s challenges with greater calm and confidence. At Green Child, we believe these skills are just as important as academic learning and are most powerful when practiced together as a family.
Explore our growing library of 70+ guided meditation scripts, breathing exercises, body scans, visualization practices, and mindfulness activities designed to support better sleep, emotional regulation, focus, self-compassion, and everyday wellbeing.
Health & Wellness
Health is shaped by the small choices we make every day—from the products we bring into our homes to the food we eat, the time we spend outdoors, and the ways we care for our minds and bodies. Green Child takes a whole-family approach to wellness, helping parents make informed decisions that support lifelong health.
Explore trusted resources on reducing everyday chemical exposures, creating a healthier home, supporting your child’s nervous system, healthy sleep, nutrition, natural first aid, and practical wellness habits for the whole family.
Family-Friendly Recipes
Sharing wholesome meals is one of the simplest ways to nurture healthy habits and meaningful family connections. Our recipes focus on real, nourishing ingredients that make healthy eating approachable, delicious, and enjoyable for every stage of childhood.
Explore family-friendly meals, healthy snacks, seasonal recipes, and practical nutrition advice that helps children develop adventurous palates, enjoy real food, and build healthy eating habits that last a lifetime.
Non-Toxic Living
Creating a healthier home starts with understanding what comes into it. Green Child helps families navigate the often-overwhelming world of everyday chemicals with thoughtfully researched, evidence-informed guidance you can trust.
Explore our in-depth buying guides, product reviews, and articles covering organic mattresses, safer baby gear, clothing, personal care products, household essentials, and practical ways to reduce exposure to endocrine disruptors, PFAS, flame retardants, VOCs, and other common environmental toxins.
Meet the Green Child Team
Our contributors include journalists, child development experts, meditation teachers, psychologists, bestselling authors, and longtime advocates for children’s health and environmental wellbeing. Together, they bring decades of experience to every article we publish.
Amity Hook-Sopko, Executive Editor & Publisher
Amity has been an advocate for the environment since childhood, but her passion for natural parenting, real foods, and holistic health began when she became a parent in the early 2000s.
She holds a Journalism degree and has a background in corporate sales, sales analysis, and marketing. Her work has appeared in CNN, New York Magazine, Today, Parents, Lifehacker, Yahoo, Earth911, and other publications.
Caitlin Ultimo, Baby Editor + SEO Manager
Caitlin is a writer, editor, and expert digital content strategist. She has worked and written for parenting and pet care publications and brands including Parents and Scholastic magazines, Parenting.com, Pampers, Sundays for Dogs, and Chewy.com.
She has managed writing teams and executed global content and SEO strategies. She’s also the mother of one daughter and two dogs.
Aaronica Cole, Parenting + Green Living Columnist
Aaronica Cole holds a B.A. in Psychology from Spelman College and an M.B.A. in Marketing. She’s been writing for more than 14 years and decided to become a full-time blogger after having her second baby.
She also designs and sews most of her own clothing and recently modeled for several pattern companies. When she’s not writing, mom-ing, teaching, or wife-ing, you can find her sewing and researching how to not kill the plants she loves.
Mellisa Dormoy, Guided Meditation Creator
Founder of ShambalaKids, Mellisa is a Certified NGH Hypnotherapist, meditation teacher/trainer, and best-selling author. She wrote the book Guided Imagery Work with Kids for teachers and professionals and created the PikuCalmKids app which includes free meditations for children.
Mellisa loves to cook healthy food, read, go on spontaneous adventures, and constantly challenge herself to bring more joy and fun into life!
Linda McGurk, Author + Parenting in Nature Expert
Linda Åkeson McGurk is a Swedish American writer and author of two critically acclaimed parenting books, including There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather.
McGurk and her books have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Orion Magazine, Slate Magazine, TreeHugger, ScaryMommy and more.
Katherine Martinko, Author + Green Living Writer
Katherine Johnson Martinko is a Canadian editor and writer. She is the author of the 2023 book Childhood Unplugged: Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, she now works as a freelance editor and writer. Katherine speaks four languages and spent 10 years as a senior writer and editor at Treehugger, where she wrote extensively about free-range parenting and the importance of outdoor play for children.
Katy Codekas, Parenting + Green Living Writer
Katy Codekas is a freelance writer and single mother of three. She shares her expertise in gentle parenting, cooking and foraging, sustainable living, and homesteading for several popular blogs.
When not writing or doing all of the mom things, Katy can be found running long distances for the beautiful nature views, identifying wild-growing useful herbs and flowers, drinking tea, reading books, and hanging with her kitties Howie and Hamilton.
Peggy O’Mara, Activism Columnist
Peggy O’Mara is an independent journalist best known for editing and publishing Mothering Magazine for more than 30 years. She now covers topics important to natural and holistic-minded families, as well as social justice and activism.
Peggy is the mother of four and the grandmother of three. We’re thrilled to help share Peggy’s voice and wisdom to a new generation of parents. She has presented at Omega Institute, Esalen, La Leche League, and Bioneers.
Green Child in the Media
Green Child’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets and press publications to date. Our natural parenting, healthy living, and mindfulness resources have been shared in trusted news, health, lifestyle, and entertainment publications.
See us in ABC, MSN, Today, Yahoo, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, US Magazine, Lifehacker, Parents, Earth911, Greenpeace, Spotify, Bustle, SheKnows, Care, Scary Mommy, Chopra, Romper, and more.
Industry Associations
Green Child Magazine is proud to be involved with organizations that promote children’s health, sustainability, and safer baby and child products.
Children & Nature Network
ShiftCon
All Baby and Child Expo
Green Schools Alliance
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We’re Glad You’re Here!
We’re all students in this world and we welcome you to learn and grow with us. We’re grateful for our advertisers who support our mission and help us keep this publication free. Green Child’s core values and our approach to green and natural parenting appeal to many nature moms.
We’re delighted to offer advice on natural family living, creating a nontoxic home, raising mindful kids, and taking a holistic approach to health and wellness. This approach to a more sustainable life gets us called nature moms, hippies, crunchy mamas, or granola parents. We embrace all of these titles and are so happy to have you join us on this journey.