Some national coverage.

Jan 17, 2008

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You know, PM is a pretty good magazine. After my seven-year-old started reading last year, I started looking for magazines to subscribe to, you know, stuff with text and interesting pictures that could be lying around waiting to be picked up and looked at. I thought PM might fit the bill: interesting for the adults in the house, not too high a reading level, and possibly having material that would be good for a mechanically-inclined kid to flip through.

Then I bought a paper copy and saw the ads in the back.

Um. NO. They are not, how you say, family friendly. (Much like the Skiing Magazine that I can’t seem to convince Mark to cancel, only because we got it when the other, good skiing magazine went out of business and transferred our account, prepaid for like the next ten years)

I’ve had some other suggestions (Smithsonian; National Geographic) but have dropped the project in the meantime…

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4 responses to “Some national coverage.”

4ddintx

January 17, 2008

There are lots of good kids magazines out there. We like Ranger Rick, Nat’l Geographic Kids, and Highlights. My kids have been known to read stuff out of our Discover magazine, and occasionally Nat’l Catholic Reporter. Dh has hunting magazines with interesting articles and pictures, too.
Tabitha

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Christy P

January 17, 2008

We do love Smithsonian at our house, but the articles are awfully long and more often about topics that I don’t see a 7-year old liking to read. I’ve told you before that I credit much of my early reading ability and mental collection of random trivia to Reader’s Digest. In the summer when my mom wouldn’t turn on the AC I would go to the library and sit in the stacks and read Boys’ Life (not sure where the apostrophe goes). I never was a Boy Scout since I was and still am female, but the articles about camping and the outdoors were really interesting to me as an 8-10 year old.

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Derek

January 17, 2008

I also loved Boys Life (I was a half-hearted Boy Scout).
What about Scientific American? If he can read Popular Mechanics, he could probably read SA – not a bad magazine.

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bearing

January 17, 2008

My memory of SciAm is that the reading level is higher and the concepts generally more difficult than PM.
I forgot about Reader’s Digest. Boys’ Life isn’t a bad suggestion either. He did get Spider (like Cricket, but aimed a bit younger) as a Christmas present and is enjoying it.

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