Comments on: Two chapters, 2x and early mornings.

By: HelenHaricot

HelenHaricot — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:48:19 +0000

ooh, i had the kids one as a child. pressie from transatlantic aunt. it was great

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:19:36 +0000

Nat Geo are allegedly about to start up a UK edition of their Kids magazine (nee World magazine which I loved to bits back in the Seventies).

So I’m holding on until they do instead of placing an order for the US edition.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:19:45 +0000

I think there are a few - usually enough to choose from - but I just scrolled back up to see where you’d been buying them - ahhhh, Morrisons! I bought comics in there before we came back from Pembrokeshire, and they had a tiny selection, no better than our corner shop.

By: Jax

Jax — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:27:55 +0000

I let Big have her choice - they don’t get mags very often at all, they were just using up what was left of my voucher But what annoyed us both was that there wasn’t really a choice - she wouldn’t choose something overtly boyish with masks and weapons on, and most of the girlie ones that she could read were utterly boring. She’s had Witch before, which wasn’t nearly as bad, at least having stories in it and loads of comps, which she does enjoy, but either we’re between issues or they were all sold out.

There wasn’t DK Findout, Magic Key or anything other than Art attack that wasn’t very pink.

Just wondered if there was any call for a less gender specific (which I will admit does irritate the life out of me!) more generic magazine out there. Or if there was one that I haven’t found yet.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:52:35 +0000

We get Aquila, and Hannah really likes it. But she’s also allowed to buy whatever she fancies for herself. Actually, “allowed” sounds odd, as I don’t think of it like that, she just does.

By: layla

layla — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:46:42 +0000

C still gets Click which she really enjoys (http://www.cricketmag.com/ProductDetail.asp?pid=6).

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:25:41 +0000

I don’t know if we’re suffering from more rural newsagents or something here but we can’t even get things like the DK Findout magazine anymore. M sometimes looks but usually decides against getting one. He gets the Horrible Science magazines monthly and does read them. I’ve toyed with subscribing to Discovery Box http://www.bayard-magazines.co.uk/gammebox/discoverybox.htm after we got some good ones in a charity shop or there’s Aquila http://www.aquila.co.uk/ that I keep seeing ads for but haven’t seen a copy of.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:15:33 +0000

Mine buy their own, unless I want to buy them one (e.g. long car/train journey). I buy Buttercup’s, as she doesn’t get pocket money yet, and she usually picks one of the TV characters ones. Top choice here is Doctor Who Adventures If I’m buying, I’ll get Magic Key, DK Findout, something like that.

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:39:22 +0000

I honestly don’t think it matters too much what magazines they get because sooner or later they will realise that the tat that comes with them is just tat which teaches them a good lesson in marketing, plus they will grow out of them quicker than you realise. And if they have to buy their magazines out of pocket money, they will think twice about spending that much - a good lesson in budgeting. I think small person had to start buying her own magazines aged 11 when she got a monthly allowance rather than pocket money, which also coincided with her having a proper bank account and doing internet banking.

Small person reads Bliss (when she has enough money to buy it); although it is not what I would choose for her to read necessarily, some of the stories have sparked some interesting debates about social issues and injustices which have helped her to form an opinion on things. She currently thinks girls who get pregnant as teenagers are wasting their lives and that doing drugs is a fools path. Can’t argue with either of those

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:21:00 +0000

Personally, although I hate the whole gender stereotyping commercial lot of ‘em, I let F have mags (one a week usually) as pink and trashy as she likes, partly because I’m pretty sure that otherwise the pinkness and trashiness will become like a beacon of the forbidden in later years, which might be much worse! If she can get it out of her system with a few pages of nothing about princesses once in a while, all well and good.
There are some ‘good’ mags out there though - animal-related, science-related, etc.
I hate pink, full stop. But I have adjusted very well to its presence in my life as Nic can testify! Just hoping she goes hippy/goth in teen years, but she’ll probably stay pink.