A child's contribution won't publish

Try this first

1. Check whether the guardian has signed off yet. A child's contribution cannot be approved by anyone — including the archive's owner — until their guardian approves it first.
2. Make sure the guardian knows something is waiting for them; the request may be sitting unnoticed (spam folders strike again).
3. Once the guardian approves, the memory moves into the normal review queue like any other submission, and the archive's steward can publish it.

What's going on

When a child is invited as a contributor, their invitation is tied to a guardian — a parent or responsible adult who sees what the child submits before the family does. The memory waits with the guardian until they sign off; only then can the archive approve and publish it.

This gate is deliberate and cannot be turned off, not even by the archive's owner. Children tell wonderful stories, and they occasionally overshare in ways they'd regret at twenty-five — a school, a schedule, a family matter that isn't theirs to broadcast. The guardian step means one adult who knows that child looks first, every time. We'd rather a grandchild's memory take an extra day than take a shortcut with a minor's words.

If that didn't work

If the guardian has approved and the memory still seems stuck, or the guardian never received anything to approve, write to [email protected] and we'll untangle it.