No matter what your parenting style is or where you are in your parenting journey, you can find a parenting magazine that is right for you. Here is a list of the best parenting magazines available for parents today.
Parenting Magazines for Pregnancy and Infants
Pregnancy & Newborn
This print magazine covers topics from the beginning of trying to conceive, through birth, and into the first year of baby’s life. It provides a lot of information on baby’s development and anticipated milestones.
They host a robust website that reviews baby gear and advertises giveaways. There is also a dedicated section on their website that features a variety of birth and babyshower stories.
The “Ask the Experts” section highlights feedback from medical professionals, child educators, lactation consultants and others, on questions about pregnancy and newborns.
Pregnancy Magazine
This is an online magazine with digital issues. Being an online magazine, it has an extensive website that covers pregnancy, labor and delivery, baby’s first year, and breastfeeding. Additionally, they have a podcast, a specific section for dads-to-be, and a Buyer’s guide that gives in-depth information about the best baby gear on the market.
American Baby
As the name implies, this print magazine’s focus is on pregnancy and newborns/infants, particularly in the United States.
It provides a dearth of information on issues pertinent to pregnancy and babies, activities to do with your little one, fashion advice (both maternity and postpartum) and celebrity interviews. Their special feature, CribNotes, highlights what’s new in the world of maternity and babies.
Fit Pregnancy and Baby
This is a formally print magazine that now operates solely online. Fitting for their name, it features health and fitness information as it relates to pregnancy, postpartum and infants.
It provides tips on exercise, nutrition, and ways to de-stress. They also give fashion advice for moms-to-be and newly postpartum moms. In addition, there is a large section devoted to trying to conceive.
Parenting Magazines for Child of All Ages
Parents Magazine
They offer lots of recipes, family trip ideas, family activities, seasonal crafts, and more. While the overall audience is aimed more at mothers aged 18-35, they do offers articles outside of that range.
They have a special feature called parents IRL (in real life) that highlights a family (sometimes a celebrity but not always) with questions about their parenting style and family dynamic. The section called “Time for You” is all about self-care.
Family Circle
It is one of the longest-running circulations of print magazines on parenting in the United States. This is a lifestyle magazine with a heavy focus on the family as a whole but it does delve into topics specific to preschoolers through teenagers.
There are lots of recipes aimed at pleasing everyone in the family while not taking much time to prepare. Their website has a section specifically for articles about teenagers.
Today’s Parent
This Canadian print magazine focuses on pregnancy through the pre-teen years. Topics range from proper development (physically, emotionally and socially), to recipes and product reviews. It also offers up time-saving tips and fun activities for kids of any age.
Family Fun
Properly named, this magazine focuses on finding things to explore together with children aged 3 to 12. They give ideas for activities for families to do together including travel, crafts, cooking, holiday preparations and more, all with the goal of making great memories with your kids.
New Parent Magazine
This magazine offers information on all things from pregnancy to big kids (pre-teens). On their website, they give lots of advice. The Sleep Center offers tips and tricks for getting little ones to sleep. They also have fun extras like a milestone tracker and a Pinterest board.
Specialty Parenting Magazines
Your Teen For Parents
One of the trickiest periods of development for parent to navigate are often the teenage years. It’s healthy to start preparing them for adulthood but they still need limits as their impulse control is not fully developed.
YTFP is a rare magazine specifically aimed at older kids and teenagers. They offer a print edition as well as an online community.
The age range for topics covers middle school through high school and into college. There are articles on how to positively address puberty, sexuality, academics, sports, college prep and more.
Hip Mama
Described as edgy and real, this magazine on alternative parenting definitely lives up to the hype. It’s been around since the 90s and covers parenting culture and politics, without apology.
The authors are not afraid to take on controversial topics, but they do try to include a bit of humor sometimes. Their audience is typically more urban and feminist parents.
There is a collection of articles available to view on their website. Featured topics include tattoos/piercings, holistic medicine, extended breastfeeding, gun control, and transgender issues.
Working Mother
This print magazine offers exactly what it advertises – information all about working moms. There is an emphasis on how to achieve a work-life balance and how to effectively separate work from family time.
This is in addition to fun things like crafts and projects for the kids. Their website has an entire section devoted to the “Best Companies” to work for as a mom (with higher marks going to companies that offer flexible leave, on-site childcare, upward mobility for women, etc.)
It also gives advice on how to tackle workplace issues surrounding disabilities, gender and cultural discrepancies, and the general difficulties of navigating the workplace as an expecting and working mom.
Mothering
Priding itself on natural family living, this, formally print, now online magazine provides a bevy of guidance on things like attachment parenting, alternative [to hospital] childbirth options and natural remedies for ailments ranging from pregnancy to adolescence.
There is a section specifically for “Green Goods” with products that are organic, natural and environmentally friendly. It also hosts an online forum where members can connect directly.
Kiwi
This magazine targets all things parenting that are natural and organic. There is a print version available but they offer online access to their digital issues at no cost.
Topics cover a wide range from pregnancy to college. Posts include subjects such as yoga, meditation, and proper nutrition. This is in addition to fun, screen-free activities for kids. They also provide an online forum for member communication.
In addition to parenting specific magazines, it is become more common for mainstream women’s magazines to cover topics that deal with conceiving, pregnancy and raising children. These titles include Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Self.
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