little feet, big sky

At the end of the day, I feel I get better value from my magazine subscriptions than from purchased books. The content feels fresher, the material more quickly digestible and the portability is pretty good. By far, my favorite parenting magazine has been . The articles are insightful and well-written and the commercialism kept to a minimum. Perhaps the only thing missing would be a little more diversity in content, but that could be said of most magazines.

I was going to recommend Cookie, but on hindsight, I remember now just how commercial it was. (Not to mention the editorial focus on mothers being fashionable rather than competent. Think Cosmo for the newly initiated.) Rather like the FitPregnancy I’ve been subscribed to for the past year, it’s as if the articles are there to provide spacing from pages and pages of ads. Though, I must admit, that for a mainstream magazine, FitPregnancy has been pretty good on writing balanced articles (if you can call ten sentences an “article”) with favorable mentions of homebirth, breast-feeding, etc. It’s just not enough for me to recommend when every three pages is an ad for formula.

A one-year digital subscription to Mothering saves trees and is only $12. :-)

Any other parenting or pregnancy magazine recommendations?