Review of Mothering Magazine
Popular Parenting Magazine Supports Natural Family Living
Are you looking for a parenting magazine that supports your out of the ordinary parenting choices? Mothering magazine is chock full of articles, essays, information and products to help you live the natural family lifestyle.
What is Mothering Magazine?
Founded in 1976, Mothering is independently owned and regularly features health, lifestyle and parenting issues that are contemporary and oftentimes controversial. With a definite granola flavour, Mothering presents articles and topics focused on families committed to earth and family friendly lifestyle choices.
Mothering Gives Positive Support for Less Common Parenting Choices
One thing that Mothering Magazine does extremely well is support mothers and families who want to make non-traditional or non-mainstream choices about their family's lifestyle. If you want to continue to breastfeed past the age of two, for example, you'd be hard pressed to find a supportive article in most widely read parenting magazines. Mothering, however, takes a very pro-breastfeeding approach and offers a multitude of examples of other moms who have made the choice to continue breastfeeding their toddlers or preschoolers.
Mothering Addresses Controversial and Complex Issues
Mothering also tackles controversial topics such as choosing to delay or omit vaccinations from your child's health care plan, and provides statistics and information on the dangers of vaccines and their ingredients. Mothering magazine honors women's experience as mothers, and children's experience as children, and discusses topics ranging from the emotional landscape of labour and childbirth to the challenges of disciplining a toddler while respecting her need to explore.
Pro-Granola but Anti-Mainstream?
If you've chosen not to breastfeed your toddler, didn't consider delaying vaccinations, or fed your baby formula since birth and let him cry it out at night, you might not find many articles in Mothering that support your parenting choices. Mothering has very clearly defined their scope as supporting the natural family living lifestyle, which means breast is best and discipline is done with the heart instead of the head. Mothering doesn't feature articles that promote sleep training or cry-it-out techniques and doesn't encourage the use of formula. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of a three year old who still breastfeeds, Mothering might not be the best parenting magazine for you.
For parents who are committed to an earth friendly lifestyle and want to learn about new developments in breastfeeding legislation, cloth diapers, organic food and hip eco-baby products, you'll find just what you're looking for in Mothering. With thorough research and essays, poems and photos that appeal to the emotional aspects of parenting, Mothering caters to the green, granola and groovy set of parents who want to give their children the safest and healthiest start in life.
