Shout - Magazine

Being the parent of a pre-teen is hard enough at times without worrying about the content of the magazines my 11-year-old daughter is reading. Last week I was faced with the very disturbing image, in one of her magazines, of a young man barely wearing a pair of boxer shorts thrusting his nether regions at me. He must have had a problem in his pants because he had one of his hands in them. I have since taken the offending picture away from my child and it is currently under my pillow for safe keeping! Becca's favourite magazine is 'Shout', published every fortnight and priced at a very reasonable £1.80. When I asked her what initially attracted her to ...

I hear you say ‘What is a fully grown woman doing, buying a magazine that is clearly aimed at young teenagers?’ Well if the truth be known, I picked it up in one of those bargain bins in my local supermarket. The price had been reduced to 20 pence and on the front cover was a free watermelon lip gloss, and having a six year old daughter, I knew I couldn’t go wrong. The magazine is aimed at the sort of 11-13 year old market. It is published every fortnight at a retail price of £1.40 per issue. It contains 84 colour pages, but was amazed to find no page numbers at all in the magazine itself, and so had to count these myself. The ...

Shout is a magazine for teenage girls. It is full of beauty tips, reviews on top fashion and games etc, embarrassing moments, problem pages, and shocking real life stories. The best part of Shout Is that they have lots of fabulous hair and make-up tips. The worst part of the magazine is that they have lots of people writing in asking for makeovers. I like it when they are doing make-up, but the clothes make-overs are just quite boring. I have actually appeared in Shout myself, when I was 11, modelling for some of the clothes. It was so funny because when I went to the studio to try on the clothes and get made over, the clothes didn't fit me and they ended ...