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Favorite Parents' Magazine? (was: Parenting magazine inadvertently makes a point)
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Favorite Parents' Magazine? (was: Parenting magazine inadvertently makes a point)
Which do you like and/or dislike, and why?
I dislike Parents intensely. I also dislike American Baby, Parenting, and just about any other mainstream parenting magazine you can name. Why? Because they pander to formula feeders, for one thing. Also, because I find them boring. Mostly they just repeat the same kind of stories over and over again, and the writing all sounds the same. I like Mothering and the Compleat Mother. I feel less weird when I read them, because they are all even weirder than me! :-) Leslie |
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Favorite Parents' Magazine? (was: Parenting magazine inadvertently makes a point)
Leslie wrote:
Mostly they just repeat the same kind of stories over and over again, and the writing all sounds the same. Exactly. Yesterday I was looking through a magazine my pediatrician gave me, thinking of this thread. At first I was intrigued, because the magazine -- Baby Years -- has a section on breastfeeding, and I didn't see any ads for artificial breastmilk. But then I realized I was enjoying the ads more than the articles. -- Sara, accompanied by the baby barnacle |
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Favorite Parents' Magazine? (was: Parenting magazine inadvertently makes a point)
Something else about the sameness of them all . . .
A couple of times I have written letters to the editor of Parents, and they called to verify that I had written the letters because they wanted to print them. But they edit the letters so heavily that the contain only the original idea, not the original words at all. Read those letters and you will see that they all have the same "voice" as though they were written by the same person. Editing for length and grammar I can understand, but I don't get why they want it all to sound so boring. Leslie |
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