Practical parenting (Practical Parenting)

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Product:	Practical Parenting
Date:	24/05/06 (205 review reads)
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Practical Parenting is a magazine for parent's and parent's-to-be. It comes out monthly and will cost you £2.40 - £2.50 which is a good price to pay.


I have the june edition is the most up to date one out at the moment. The front cover has a picture of a mum holding a baby, and the cover stories that are including which are:-



- 10 steps to an easier labour

- Why your baby keeps waking

- Soothe Exema

- What to wear this summer

- Tried and tested - car seats, night lights, baby food & changing stations

- Dr Tanya Byron "my golden rules for tantrums"


As you can see the articles cover everything from babies to toddlers.


Most months they give away free gifts on the front of the magazine. Some of them have been a plastic cutlery set and a changing mat. When i subscribed i got a cuddle toy, a tompee tippe cup and a bath toy.


The magazine is set in to different sections to make it easier to read. The first part is You and your pregnancy, then it is you and your baby, then you and your family and then lots more which includes letters, news, subscribing to the magazine, freebies to win and what is coming up in next months edition of the magazine.


I find the Baby and Child section most useful at the moment as my daughter has jus turned 1 and the difficulties with feeding and tantrums have started already!


There are quite a few advertisements, but they are all related to babies and toddlers which is good.


I have been getting this magazine for 3 months now, and do find that you will find the same sort of things in each edition, like the week by week of pregnancy. Though I have to admit I love reading this part as it brings back all the memories of my pregnancy!


The magazine is all in colour with the front page being glossy. All the information and articles are really easy to understand, so parents-to-be will find it a good magazine to read. The magazine has 129 pages to browse through, and the articles are very interesting to read.


At the back there is a section called Classifieds, where you will find addresses and website addresses for everything realated to children and babies like nursery items, clothing, holidays and more. This is very useful as it gives you idea's as where to look for what you need.


Experts write in this magazine and these include Health Visitors, Family GP, Community Midwife, Psychologist and a few others as well. This makes all the information that you are reading reliable.


I have a subscription to this magazine which i got while at the baby show at the secc in glasgow. It only cost me £9.99 for a 6 month subscription! Which i have to say was a special offer at the baby show. A 6 month subscription normally will cost you £12.84 which gives you a saving of 20%. And most of the time they have special offers on with the subscription that you get a free gift when you subscribe. In this months magazine it is a box of lego duplo which is worth £14.99.


The main reason I decided to subscribe to this magazine was for the free gift with it! I am glad now that I did buy it as it has been a fountain of knowledge to me!


I highly recommend this magazine to parents-to-be and parents!!!


I hope this reveiw has helped you make a decision on buying this magazine.


Thanx for reading xxxx

Summary: Best parenting magazine ive ever bought!