Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: magazines

This topic has 8 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 8 months ago by nerakr.

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April 20, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Laura.bora
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My Mom wants to buy my kids some magazines. So what ones do you guys have? We have/had Nature’s Friends, Ranger Rick, Ranger Rick Jr., National Kid’s geographic, Your Big Backyard. I’ve got kids from the age of 10 – 3, mostly boys and one 7yo girl. Just looking for suggestions for the kids and I to look through and pick which magazine they would like.
April 20, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Wings2fly
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We have had Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse. ds9 reads bits of it. He likes the jokes in it. There’s a mystery in it he likes.
April 20, 2013 at 6:52 pm
Lesley Letson
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We’ve had the ones mentioned, along with: Hidden Pictures Playground (Highlights), Puzzlemania (Highlights), High Five (Highlights), Birds and Blooms (not a kid one, but my bird enthusiast loves it), and Which Way USA (Highlights). I have looked at Nature Friend and Creation Illustrated, but haven’t tried them out yet. I loved just plain ol’ Highlights when I was younger.
April 20, 2013 at 7:10 pm
JennyMN
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God’s World News.
April 20, 2013 at 8:10 pm
nerakr
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For your older son, Boys’ Quest is good. http://www.funforkidzmagazines.com. Your daughter may be old enough for their girl mag, Hopscotch. It’s billed as being for 8 and up. Samples available on the website. What I like about them is that they are ad free and do not accept content about fashion, celebrities, boy/girl relationships, that sort of thing. They also have an activity magazine for both boys and girls, Fun for Kidz, that comes out the months that BQ and Hopscotch don’t.
Focus on the Family also has a jr. version of Clubhouse for ages 4-8.
You may also want to look at the Cricket family of magazines http://www.cricketmag.com or the magazines published by Children’s Better Health Institute. Your youngers may like Turtle or Humpty Dumpty. http://www.uskidsmags.com
April 20, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Katrina in AK
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We love the Cricket family of magazines, too. Some are more history centered, some more science, some more literature….and NO outside ads. Love that!
April 20, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Laura.bora
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Oooh – Thank you ladies!! I knew I could count on you for good choices!! Keep the ideas coming.
April 20, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Mysterious Lady in Pink
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ZooBooks have one major animal focus each issue which I really like; Zootles for the 3yo, and is a younger one than that… Zoobies maybe? Groupon and the like have deals regularly where they are $10-$15 for an annual subscription, ad free I think. Very colorful, although not from a creationist perspective of course. You’ve probably seen them, but if not, libraries always seem to have them.
April 20, 2013 at 11:54 pm
nerakr
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Forgot about Kids Discover. Each issue is either all about one science topic or one history topic. I have a few back issues about Vikings and the Wright Brothers, for instance. Don’t know if the science is overtly evolutionary or neutral.