The Best Parenting Magazines

Sometimes it can feel pretty lonely being a parent, especially if you live on a street where there are not a lot of other mothers. This is where subscribing to parenting magazines can be quite valuable.

One good magazine to subscribe to is American Baby Magazine. This is a complete reference for new parents that covers all aspects of child care including infant and toddler care. The magazine also has articles and ads about kid fashions, new products and accessories. American Baby Magazine puts out an issue a month.

Fit Pregnancy Magazine which comes out ten times a year is a magazine that caters to people with kids aged three to twelve. It is a monthly suggestion book that helps families to plan to do things together.

Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine helps moms with their health from conception through to baby's first year. It puts out four issues a year and has helped many moms have a healthy pregnancy.

Hybrid Mom Magazine is for the busy working mom. It is for the lady who is a community worker, teacher and entrepreneur. It puts out four issues a year which is a bit disappointing. I guess they are too busy being working moms to put out twelve issues a year, but we wish they would. It is a great little magazine that caters to today's lifestyle.

KIWI's mission is to help parents raise their kids safely with the best nutrition possible. The magazine is full of family wellness tips as well as ideas as to where to go on vacations. It also has education and craft projects in it that help teach your kids environmental principles and social responsibility.
Parent and Child Magazine is another classic. They put out eight issues a year. You will find articles about kids about all ages including articles on how to teach them to be polite, independent and become more interested in education. It is especially good at suggesting crafts and ideas that teach preschool kids higher learning skills.

Parents magazine is one of the most famous in the United States. It offers 24 issues a year along with tips, sure-fire techniques and great advice from America's foremost childcare experts.

Parenting Magazine is another mainstay in the United States. It puts out 22 issues a year and helps you raise loving, intelligent and confident children. Parenting is that magazine that you see in every doctor's waiting office that offers advice about children's health, safety and emotional development.

The Pampered Child Syndrome

Lately, I have become quite interested in this book by Dr. Maggie Mamen called The Pampered Child Syndrome which is all about that one kid that takes over your entire family's priority. In fact these kids can take over everything including family harmony, financial considerations, respect for others and even common sense. In fact the other day I was in a restaurant just because of such a brat. I was just sitting down to a wonderful meal with my friend, who was a new mother in forties when suddenly her darling new child started bawling. She looked at me, and said, 'I'm sorry. We can't have this dinner. Little Delilah June wants to go!' The other lady I was with looked at her in shock and said, 'But we just got here…the child does not control how long we stay here for dinner.' The mother, a slightly insecure hysterical type kept talking about how we all had to do what Delilah wanted or Delilah would hate her. She had no idea that she should control the situation and seemed afraid of losing the approval of a two year old child.

This type of syndrome where innocent little kids push you around and cause havoc in everyone's lives is called Pampered Child syndrome. Don't think this can't be a problem because this same woman let her child take control of her entire social life for the next few years to the extent that she never got to date anyone and she lost all of her friends because she could never leave the kid with a babysitter. At age five little Delilah June was still nursing because even though she had sharp teeth, her mother did not have a strong enough will to tell her that it was time to stop.

If you do have this type of problem or know someone then Dr. Maggie Manen's The Pampered Child Syndrome: How to Recognize It and How to Avoid It might help. She has also written other books about boundaries, tough love about raising kids including Who's In Charge?, Laughter and Love and Limits.

It's a good thing to take away power from a little kid who has too much power. For one thing, children know it is wrong for them to have authority and power that they are ill equipped to handle. As they grow older they become control freaks and develop serious social and psychological difficulties.