Posted on 11/14/2022 9:12:12 PM PST by shoff
I am thinking of ordering Highlights magazine for my grandchild. She is 3 going on 4 and I know I loved it as a kid.The excitment of getting her own mail and then looking thru it would be fun and educational. Is it too woke these days?
It looks much better. I might go for these. I don’t think the animal world cares about wokeness.
Focus on the Family looks like another good choice. Imight orderone to see.
“Is that something you think anyone here enjoys reading?”
No I am thinkng there might be some parents,grandparents that have seen the magazine and could give me their opinion.
I got a subscription to a magazine called Your Big Backyard when my daughter was that age.
https://www.kidsworldfun.com/magazines/your-big-backyard-magazine.php
It wasn’t woke, but who knows what it is like now.
Then there’s Ranger Rick Jr.
amazon.com/National-Wildlife-Federation-Ranger-Rick/dp/B003I7HS5M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UR3D4ZKNTRQU&keywords=range
Yes, at least the animals haven’t gone woke. I was afraid the magazines might have gone woke since I last looked, and checked out a few sample copies and could not find anything, not even any dreaded Climate Change stuff.
I liked the way they honored the parents’ primary role in guiding their children, too, and stress that. In the Cub issue, they show Tilly the Tiger with her mother, showing the size difference and say Tilly will grow up to be as large as her mother, but in the meantime her mother keeps her safe. And there’s a parent guide for every issue so parents can share more fun facts about the featured animals with their child and so forth and be the smart teacher. I was glad to see that.
What about the Harry Potter books? I don’t know.
Refusing to cater to mental illness is not hate and sodomy is the antithesis of a family value.
She’s not old enough for Harry Potter yet. (3 going on 4)
Shaming kids like that was conditioning to raise generations of simps.
“She’s not old enough for Harry Potter yet. (3 going on 4)”
Gotcha. I’m just wondering about those books. I know kids that are devouring those books.
Will Goofus be a “homophobe,” and Gallant woke?
Abe Books: abebooks.com
I collect such books as well. Mine include history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, woodworking, metalworking, and gunsmithing. Of course, I also have gardening an the original Foxfire series. Heck, I even have texts which describe making electron tubes and associated circuitry.
Don’t know about currently, but it was leaning that way when my children were in grade school in the 70’s and 80’s.
Well, just check the Goofus and Gallant section:
Goofus: swaggering bad boy takes the ladies home on weekends.
Gallant: occasionally takes another guy or a transgender “lady” home for variety and compassion’s sake.
If it’s something like that, then Highlights has gone woke.
It would be better to just get your kids a bb gun and practice target shooting.
They will more likely need to hone that skill in particular in the future.
I’d like to thank everyone for their responses. I am going to try that Ranger Rick magazine and make a stop at a local used book store for some pre-woke fairy tales.
I did not want to buy Highlights and find the coloring section with something like “color in Janes penis, and Joes breasts.” I don’t want to encourage something that should be my daughters responsibility to handle in her own way. I just wanted something fun for a young girl.
Thanks again!
When I was very young my parents read the A. A. Milne Pooh stories and poems to me, but that was a very long time ago.
One day these books, and the knowledge that they contain, will be priceless.
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