The ProudMe Team & editorial standards

Our source hierarchy

We prefer the most direct, established source available for a claim:

1. U.S. public-health and regulatory agencies such as CDC, HHS, USDA, NIH, FTC, and NIST;
2. professional pediatric guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics and HealthyChildren.org;
3. peer-reviewed research for narrower questions, with limitations stated;
4. ProudMe’s own Privacy Policy and documented product behavior for product-specific claims.

Direct links appear near important claims and again under “Sources and further reading.” We avoid copying a statistic from a secondary article when the primary or established source is available.

How an article is made

1. We define the parent question and the practical decision the guide should support.
2. We collect current established sources and separate general guidance from individual medical advice.
3. AI may assist with outlining, drafting, consistency checks, and plain-language revisions.
4. A human operator reviews the final article, checks claims against linked sources, verifies ProudMe feature descriptions, and removes unsupported promises.
5. We test links, metadata, accessibility, and structured data before publishing.

AI assistance is never presented as medical review. The ProudMe Team remains responsible for what we publish.

Our writing principles

• Make the article complete for the parent’s question, not long for its own sake.
• Use low-pressure, ability-inclusive guidance and neutral food language.
• Avoid shame, fear, fabricated statistics, weight-based goals, and guarantees.
• Explain what ProudMe can and cannot do before inviting a download.
• Direct individual health, development, sleep, feeding, or safety concerns to an appropriate professional.

Corrections and contact

If you see an incorrect claim, broken source, unclear disclosure, or outdated product detail, email pklab@lsu.edu. Include the article title, URL, and the passage in question.

We review correction requests with the relevant source or product owner. Material corrections are made directly on the page and its modification date is updated. Questions about personal health should go to a child’s pediatrician rather than our editorial inbox.

For app support, privacy requests, account deletion, and data export, use the ProudMe support page.