... 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 this magazine she ... Read review
Advantages: I enjoy reading it too! Disadvantages: Have to wait till she's finished!
...of the many features in Shout is the flowcharts, one of them this month asked ‘Are you a cool kisser?’, where you answer yes or no to the questions posed (apparently I am!). There are also various quizzes to ascertain whether you are Orlando’s type of girl or not (I am – watch out Mr Bloom!). Each quiz or flowchart is very light-hearted and simple to follow.
As with all these magazines there is a great deal of celebrity gossip and ... ...showing unflattering photos with sarcastic captions. I want my child to be happy and comfortable with her body and looks (she is gorgeous anyway), not to think that there is something wrong in having an outbreak of spots or a roll of fat around her tummy. Sometimes I think these magazines cross the line a bit.
There are often posters of celebrities and pop stars, this week featured Ronaldo, Busted and Girls Aloud as well as song words ... more
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 this magazine she replied it was 'cos of the free gifts'. Every issue has either an item of jewellery or makeup attached to the front. I must admit to being a fan of free gifts on magazines myself and have recently acquired 2 beach bags, a make-up bag, a pair of oversized sunglasses, green flip-flops and a 'one size fits all' boob tube - 'one size fits all', pah!!! So I can't really complain about her logic.
This month Rebecca received a ‘brill bracelet’ and last issue she had ‘luscious lip gloss’. The only time I have ever had a problem with one of her free gifts was when it was a set of black eyeliner and mascara as I think she is too young for black. Also I had just run out of them myself so it wasn’t as if they went to waste. Naughty Mum!
This magazine is great for dipping into as so much seems to be packed into it, I can’t see it not appealing to the majority of 9 to 13 year old girls. From dramatic true stories – such as living with an incurable illness, to soap news – catching up on all those exciting(!) storylines. Each issue has over 60 pages without too many adverts although I am sick of seeing ones for ringtones. There are always competitions and giveaways, which Becca religiously fills in but never sends off, so there is always plenty to read.
Sometimes I still worry about the obsession of these types of magazines with being grown up and having boyfriends but according to my mother I quite liked this sort of thing myself at that age, I had thought I was still into Twinkle and Bunty at 11, not boys and periods.
Within the problem pages there is a section each issue about periods, which I find has been a great help in exploring certain things clearly and concisely to my daughter. I find the problem pages quite informative too. The latest edition contains such problems as ‘I am frightened of starting high school’ and ‘I lied about my age’ (I was a bit concerned about the latter one as an 11 year old had told her 15 year old boyfriend she is the same age). The majority of problems posed, concern relationships with family and friends and how to get boys to notice them. Advice given is very helpful and sensible. Also featured is a page of health problems, such as ‘I wet myself when I laugh’ which I myself found particularly interesting and helpful!
One of the many features in Shout is the flowcharts, one of them this month asked ‘Are you a cool kisser?’, where you answer yes or no to the questions posed (apparently I am!). There are also various quizzes to ascertain whether you are Orlando’s type of girl or not (I am – watch out Mr Bloom!). Each quiz or flowchart is very light-hearted and simple to follow.
As with all these magazines there is a great deal of celebrity gossip and unfortunately Shout has now started to follow the trend of showing unflattering photos with sarcastic captions. I want my child to be happy and comfortable with her body and looks (she is gorgeous anyway), not to think that there is something wrong in having an outbreak of spots or a roll of fat around her tummy. Sometimes I think these magazines cross the line a bit.
There are often posters of celebrities and pop stars, this week featured Ronaldo, Busted and Girls Aloud as well as song words from chart topping groups – this issue contains the well known song words from V with ‘Hip to Hip’, no I have never heard of them either!
The fashion features are very down-to-earth showing normal girls wearing affordable high street clothes. There are very often articles on how to do your make-up or hair, which Becca and I enjoy trying out on each other, but it is never excessive or overly expensive.
Now I have saved my favourite feature to last – ‘Most Embarrassing Moments’. These are collections of readers’ most embarrassing cringe worthy experiences and never fails to make me and Becca laugh our socks off. They nearly always happen in front of the readers ‘crush’, usually involve farting in inappropriate places or falling down. The best ones win prizes. What I like about them is the fact that these girls have chosen to share their mishaps with us all and I think it shows the ability to laugh at themselves shows others that it is quote normal to do silly things at times.
I like this magazine as it is bright and cheerful filled with helpful advice relevant to my daughter’s age group. I think it is great value for money and definitely better for her to read than many of the others aimed at her age group. The mix seems to be just right. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to parents of daughters of a similar age.
Shout is one of my favourite kids/teens magazines, my friends read it and their younger and older sisters read it. It is for children between about 9 to 14 and I’m sure there is something to suit all their tastes. On the front of it, it says about some of the things that are in the magazine to read about, a free gift – usually make-up or something and one or two models.
On the back it usually has a poster of someone or sometimes and ... ...body problems then write into Shout and you can either have a reply to your house or in the magazine but you can remain anonymous. A lady tries to answer their problems and if someone else has the same problem and is to embarrassed to write in, then they will know what to do. ***HOROSCOPES***
I don’t really believe them most of the time but they are fun to read. For each of the signs they have your luck with lads for that fortnight, what you ...
tasha164 13.03.2002
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Advantages: good articles for the young lady of today, with nothing too 'grown up', free gift with every issue Disadvantages: mum will probably want to pinch it
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 ... ...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 magazine itself is good quality and unlike so many other magazines that are aimed at this end of the market, there are surprisingly very few adverts. There is a good array of features and some very amusing quizzes where you can discover if you are a beach babe or which member of Hearsay would make a ...
elle3041 23.07.2001
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Advantages: Great for kids age 9-12 , easy to read , organised Disadvantages: simple for above aged 12
...been a major fan of shout and not read it for a couple of years , I decided to see if I'd missed much! It was their new make over which grabbed my attention! I thought it looked quite childish but thought i'd buy it anyway.
Although this magazine is aimed at 9-14 year olds , i would not reccommend a 14 year old to read it as it's rather childish.For example it covers about 4 pages just comparing celebs as to how alike they are.
Each month a celeb ... ...scarlett johanson and Jessica Alba.
Shout lets it's readers take part in the magazine by printing their embarrassing moments and real life stories.I think that the real life stories are a scary read for nine year olds as they may be too mature for them to handle.
Shout contains a few fashion pages using teenage models.The models in the magazine look normal and not too skinny.
Shout reveals all the latest storylines coming up in popular soaps such ...
xdonzx 19.08.2007
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Advantages: Great read Disadvantages: bit too short
I love Shout magazine because it has so many different things, i feel like a small child in a sweet shop, not knowing what to choose and being surrounded by all these wonderful things to choose from.
The layout of the front cover is fun, fresh and funky. The design is simple yet stunning, it includes some of the main feratures of the magazine, things like cringe which are in all of them and things like the dramatic, true stories, about peoples lives ... ...gem on your tooth.
Shout is like a handbook for all girls everywhere, it provides information on the problems most girls have, like during puberty and how to cope and it provides help with bullying, you can write/email in your problems and you will get a reply more often than not. The best problems are printed and the winners recieve a prize reward of upto £50!!!
Cringe is my favourite thing in Shout because all of the cringe moments m,ake me laugh ...
mightyminx 14.07.2003
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Advantages: Reasonably priced and good content Disadvantages: Free gifts are normally very poor quality
...grown out of that. So Shout was what I started to read next. Similar to Mizz, but a bit more grown up, Shout contains all the usual features of a girls magazine, and is age appropriate making sure it does not upset any parents. Shout is like a teen version of Take A Break magazine, which was the next regular magazine I started to read upon outgrowing Shout. It uses the same idea for competitions, where you send all of your answers in on one form. ... ...also offers advice on matters such as periods and boyfriends, but does not contain advice about sex because it is not aimed at girls of that age.
I can imagine parents would be happier for their daughter to read Shout than many of the other teen mags in the shops. ...
gem412 14.01.2006
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