Scholastic's Parent & Child magazine is not something I would pick off the rack, thanks to my self-induced hiatus from parenting magazines that I enacted when the little angel was about one year old. I was tired of feeling judged, wrong and lazy.
The first 20 pages or so seemed chock-full of ads and reviews of books and toys. These things interested me more when my daughter was very young, and I was pretty sure I didn't know what I was doing. However, I soldiered on, because, after all, SCHOLASTIC.
By page 38, I was duly rewarded. A bunch of scientific-y ideas to do with a sandbox. Things I would never have thought of doing in a million years, such as burying metal objects in sand and then finding them with a magnet. I also really liked the interview with the creator of Mad Libs.
Parent & Child leans a bit toward the Mental Floss end of the parenting magazine spectrum, and I highly encourage it to lean farther. However, I'm cheered by its progress away from headlines screaming "Why Your Eating Habits While Pregnant Ensure Your Child Will Live in a Van Down by the River." Keep it up!
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