I really like Parents magzine. I've also read Cookie and Parenting, but like this one the best.

this is a great mahazine, designed for all parents no matter the age of their children.

We received this magazine earlier than the estimated delivery date and have enjoyed the contents. We have a lot to learn as first time parents and this magazine has been very helpful.

I am a first time parent& have received 2 issues of the magazine. So far I enjoy flipping through the articles & even the advertisements for some ideas. It provides for quick reading for those of us with little time!

Subscribed to PARENTS magazine for a year to be sent to my daughter who is expecting in June. IF the magazine is the same as it was 25 yrs ago, she is going to apply alot of what she reads in the articles. Those aritcles helped me raise two wonderful daughters! Great Magazine for a mom who has children. I had time to read them cover to cover because I was a stay-at-home mom for ten yrs. In hinesight I would not have done any different then stay at home where I was able to enjoy my children that I bore....

I subscribed this magazine on July 2007. After more 6 months passed, none issue showed up. And Amazone did not response to my info request at all.

Don't subscribe this magazine through Amazon!!!!! Terrible experience.

I subscribed to this after my daughter was around 1 year and, being a stay at home mom, thought I might be able to sneak in a magazine article here and there. What better magazine to subscribe to than one focused on the raising of my darling baby girl? What a mistake! There are 2 types of material in this magazine; alarmist and inane. In fairness, there is occasionally a slightly interesting tidbit that doesn't cause me to immediately throw the thing down in disgust.

I don't fully fault the magazine for all of this as I've noticed that all periodicals seem to be catering to the lowest common denominator as of late. But honestly, the average article seems to assume that most parents are either complete morons or possibly 12 years old. Maybe it's because I'm 33 instead of 23, but I find the majority of the advice to be either extremely obvious or downright ridiculous. I do not need to be told to spend time with my child and I find it unhelpful to make parents think their child is Autistic because their one year old doesn't always look up from their toys when their name is called.

Then there's the household tips. In every issue, there seems to be tons of helpful tips to streamline the management of your home. These are the sort of silly "thirteen different ways to use a laundry basket" that some people may find interesting, but I do not. If I need a shelf, I install a shelf rather than hanging a laundry basket from some hooks. Honestly I feel like I've lost IQ points after reading this magazine. Sometimes I think it would have been more educational to watch The View - and that would have been free.

I give the magazine 2 stars because there is occasionally something interesting in it. I have also seen worse. But if you are an actual adult, have some common sense and want to limit the ridiculous decor in your home to macaroni art created by your child, skip this magazine.

Ordered this 8 months ago, never received an issue. This is the second subscription I got through Amazon that didn't get to me.

This one has been out awhile... for good reason,.... valid articles, useful advise, GREAT photography coupons.... recipes, etc.... well worth the subscription... year after year- they do a great job at presenting old material new ways (the stuff our moms told us, but we had to see it in print) GREAT STUFF!

I'm a mom who doesn't really get into the psycho-babble a lot of magazines and books press on parents today, so finding a book or even a magazine that helps real parents in real situations is hard to do. Parents does this to a T. It has useful information based on everyday situations, interesting stories about other families, and funny stories kids tell to complete strangers. I have found this magazine to be the most helpful and entertaining in my day to day use and look forward to it every month.

This is my absoulte favorite magazine. I look foward to this every month and read it cover to cover. Its a must have for any parent.

I renew this subscription every Christmas for my children and their families. Many helpful tips and lots of useful and timely information. As a grandmother I have learned a lot of new things, also. I highly reccomend this magazine for any parent or grandparent.

Wife thinks this is a great magazine. She would say the same if only she was awake...poor sleepy Kristy.

magazine arrived approx 10 weeks after ordering - that was Ok - just need to spell that out in original order - my daughter kept looking for the magazine....

I am still a college students with no children. I got this magazine because I absolutly love children. A while back one of the readers suggested taking peices you think will be important and putting them in a scrapbook based on the age of your unborn baby. I LOVE this idea and this magazine is the perfect one to do this with.

My wife and I have found this magazine to be both entertaining and educational. It always helps to see what other parents have done in certain situations to better prepare you for yours. The articles provide some wonderful information that is useful in everyday life. We would recommend this to all new parents.

I really look forward to receiving this every month. I am blown away by all their crafty ideas for art projects, organization, and meals. Really fun.

I really love this magazine because it has parenting articiles in it!

Every parent should read this magazine! Really good activites and advice.

I just ordered my own subscription to Parents Magazine because I was reading it over at my younger mother-in-laws all the time and I absolutely LOVE it. I even ordered the Sleep Sheep I saw in there. The thing people need to remember is that it is aimed at mothers aged 18-34. There are other magazines out there for older mothers that I'm sure us younger ones would find uninformative and biased. Every magazine has a demographic goal. I honestly LOVE this magazine. I'm 24, and a stay-at-home mom and my husband works at an electronics store. We are by no means upper class. But I still find their tips on saving money and bargain buying VERY helpful. For those who are older, you might want to try babycenter.com for tips for older mothers.

I was given a subscription to this magazine during my pregnancy and have gaining a lot of knowledge on the baby world from it. I enjoy the read and have picked up a lot of great ideas from it.

I started receiving Parents while I was pregnant and I will be renewing my subscription soon. Parents is a great magazine for new or experienced parents. It is a wealth of information and advice about raising kids young and old. Great magazine!!

This magazine was given to us as a gift subscription when our son was born, but both my wife and I quickly tired of it. The previous review that pointed out their lack of scientific research in a good bulk of their advice and their tendency to misquote and distort studies is just plain irresponsible. The magazine seems to be firmly stuck in a fantasy 'PC' world of lofty goals and ideals for your children that have very little real world application.

Articles about disciplining your children that read along the lines of 'If your 2 year old hits his brothe rin the face with a soccer ball, look him straight in the face, make eye contact and tell him that it is not nice to hit'.

Thanks for that pearl of wisdom. ANyone with a 2 year old can atest to the futility of reasoning with them. Never would parents magazine advocate something that might actually WORK like say taking all of his toys away and marching his butt to the corner where he gets to stand for say 9 years or until he is adopted by the neighbors :)

Seriously, the magazine writes for a fantasy land scenario where June and Ward are the parents and the kids act like the munchkins on a Disney TV movie. if you happen to be the cleavers, go for it...

I HAVE BEEN RECEIVING PARENTS FOR OVER A YEAR NOW. EVERY MONTH I LOOK FORWARD TO READING THE NEW EDITION OF PARENTS. THEY HAVE A LOT OF USEFUL TIPS AND THE EMERGENCY GUIDES ARE VERY INFORMATIVE. I ALSO LOVE THE YEARLY INFO ON EVERYDAY TOPICS FOR EACH AGE GROUP. OKAY I DO FIND A LOT OF ADDS BUT I HAVE SEEN WORSE. I SUSCRIBE TO CHILD,PARENT, PARENTING, & BABY TALK. BABY TALK AND PARENT ARE SOME OF THE BEST OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this magazine to be OK but nothing really worth paying for. Flipping through this magazine I felt like they were trying to sell me every baby product under the sun rather than trying to show me how to best bring up my child.
I was surprised to see no mention of breastfeeding in the whole magazine, but I guess there's not a lot of money to be made in breastfeeding products; And the 'must have' baby products would set most new parents back half a years salary. Their information was in many cases common sense and in other cases a bit misleading.
From what I have seen I think this may be the best parenting magazine out there, but I would recommend any new mums to save their cash and use the internet instead, you will find both sides of the story there, not just the one which is trying to make money off you.

I really enjoyed my subscription to Parents Magazine while I was pregnant and during the first year of our daughter life. I liked the product recalls...found it very helpful. I now buy it at the store when I am wanting a magazine. There is things I think they should change with this magazine but overall it is worth buying.
Great gift if you know a new mommy that isn't already getting this in the mail.

As is true of most of the mainstream parenting magazines, I find the articles almost exclusively geared toward mothers, rather than (both) parents -- only rarely to fathers. Perhaps this is a little less true of this pub. than of its chief competitor, "Parenting." The voice of the articles often specifically addresses the mother/female half of the parenting team and the features with beauty tips in the "taking care of yourself" vain are pure fluff, more appropriate to 'Vogue' or 'Self' and of course, again, never addressing the male half of the parent team.

I agree with other reviewers who have noted that the general tone of many of the articles seem to be mostly aimed at upper income, traditional families. While we can often find something of interest/use in this mag. As'older' (over 40) parents of a 3-yr. old transculturally adopted daughter, this targetting is makes the magazine less useful than it could be. As the 'father' half of the team, I find it even less helpful, although, if I had to choose between this pub. and "Parenting" I would opt. for this one.

I guess the marketeers believe that fathers don't read magazines about parenting, and saddly maybe this is mostly true, but I would love to see a magazine that is truely devoted to parenthood -- all types and all both halves. This ain't it.

Parents magazine is a very good publication about raising kids to be happy, healthy adults. It offers some good advice about the task of parenthood, illustrating the hard work and rewards that go hand in hand if parents perform their role in the best possible manner.

I like this magazine as a whole, but there are a few things that potential readers need to know about before they pick up a copy to read. First of all, the articles in Parents magazine deal mostly with younger children, below twelve years of age. You won't find much of value in this magazine if you have teenagers. It is intended more for families with youngsters.

Another thing about this magazine that makes it less practical than it otherwise would be is the suggestions for family activities. The ideas presented here are all pretty good, but the problem is that the majority of them involve outlays of cash and/or time that are unrealistic for most families. I can agree, for example, that adding a game room would make a nice addition to one's house and would add tremendously to a family's time spent together. But how many among us can afford a home addition? Parents magazine talks about activities and enhancements like this in an unrealistic way, making them seem much simpler and easier to implement than they really are.

Aside from distractions like that, however, Parents is a very good magazine to read. It's one of the longest magazines you can buy, with 200 to 300 pages per issue. Add to that the low subscription price, a few pages of coupons, and the generally sound parental advice and you have all the makings of a good magazine for young families.

I liked this magazine more when I was pregnant and was dreaming about mommyhood. Now that I am a mom and have been reading it for a year I feel like the articles are repeating themselves and are quite superficial. I get more insights now out of the parenting books and articles about children in our local paper (Boston Globe).

I like this magazine mostly for the activities and the developmental articles. I agree with some of the other reviews that say that it's "age-biased," but you have to remember that when they publish a magazine, they are targeting a specific audience. 18-34 IS their target audience. If you don't fit in that range, then buy another magazine! I don't buy Cosmo girl because, duh, I'm not a teen-ager anymore. I think this magazine has fun ideas and helpful information about baby products (such as consumer reports and recall information on strollers, carseats, toys, etc). And contrary to other reviews, they DO feature children of all different races, they DO have articles on children who are physically/mentally challenged, and they DO have articles on the benefits of breastfeeding. I don't expect their material to cater to my exact lifestyle (I haven't seen an article about vegan babies yet and I'd like to see something about cloth diapering) but I think they do a good job of trying to include all different kinds of families and parenting styles.

As an owner of a day care center/director educator, I did recommended Parents magazine - but no longer - I have cancelled. With 5 months remaining on my 2004 subscription, I began to receive collection letters with a increasing threatening tone ("protect your credit,etc.") for subscription extension to 2006. My letters to a PO Box (no telephone # is listed)on their "invoice letters" produced no action. You don't want this hassle.

It is unfortunate that attempts to force renewal is destroying the reputation of a top notch magazine.

Charlotte Johnson
Allen, Texas

I have subscribed to this publication for 3 1/2 years now and loved every issue. I'm always able to find something of value and an article to share with my husband. I especially appreciate the reviews of children's books, toys and music. They have excellent suggestions. I've used this as a baby gift for showers multiple times and always received on-going thanks as they receive the magazine each month!

This magazine clearly caters exclusively to the mainstream American parent. As a mother who breastfeeds, cloth diapers, and co-sleeps I find that this publication has very little to offer parents who parent 'outside of the box'. Furthermore, I often come across opinions presented as facts, and studies are often grossly misquoted and misinterpreted. Coming from a scientific background, I find the information presented in this magazine to be skewed and biased and showing a distinct lack of research to back up its claims.

I also miss articles on breastfeeding, choices in diapering, etc. The focus is clearly on consumerism (baby products and ads), and there is hardly any critical reflection and not enough information.

I'll pass on this one.

The magazine itself is good, a lot to read but always in the same "tune" that all children magazines are. I guess as editors for magazines about kids and pregnant women they run out of themes pretty fast (!!) and also I wonder why is it that the magazine insists (no ofense here to anybody) on having very, very white kids with light eyes on the cover... A only pink rainbow would not be as much fun as the full color one, would it?

Great magazine. I'm only 21 and have a little while left before I start a family, but I really enjoy reading this magazine. I've learned a lot that I will use both in my own future family and in babysitting and child care in the meantime!

I received a subscription to Parents as a gift while pregnant. I love it! It is not full of articles focusing on weight loss and the latest make up trends, like some mags. It has serious articles and great tips and advice. My husband reads it too! I definately suggest this mag to parents sick of the other fluff filled mags.