Good magazines for teen girls?

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My young teenage girls are looking for a magazine subscription that will interest them. I want it to be in keeping with the moral virtues in which we believe. Any suggestions? I’ve been looking, but have not been successful. They are interested in all the same things most girls like…fashion, music, movies…only faith is also very important! What do you think?
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I am a teen girl and I subscribed to Time magazine to some time. It’s interesting. I do like Joel Stein’s articles. However, it’s mostly propaganda. Get her a science magazine like National Geographic or Psychology. 🙂
 
I was thinking National Geographic. Those are interesting and educational.
 
hmbax said:
My young teenage girls are looking for a magazine subscription that will interest them. I want it to be in keeping with the moral virtues in which we believe. Any suggestions? I’ve been looking, but have not been successful. They are interested in all the same things most girls like…fashion, music, movies…only faith is also very important! What do you think?
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I would suggest “Love One Another” from the Society of Christ Fathers (great magazine for all teens and college students- male and female)
loamagazine.org/pg/en/magazine_issues.html

They might be a bit young for this one, “Verily”, but it looks great for the older high school/college age young woman: archindy.org/criterion/local/2013/06-14/verily.html
 
Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country.

Seriously, though, what are they interested in? Our boys like Sports Illustrated. (The publisher allows subscribers to specifically decline the “swimsuit” issue.) They have also gotten Baseball Digest and liked that. I know girls who get Horseman magazine. If they like fashion, consider Fine Sewing. There are also magazine dedicated to beading and other crafts. In other word, avoid “spectator” magazines (IMHO), and get them “do-er” magazines.

National Geographic and Smithsonian are good if they just like to learn stuff.

As for faith-based magazines, they are also old enough for adult versions of those. I’m finding that teens who like to read will (to be blunt) find most faith-based media aimed at “youth” to be insulting, it is pitched so low. Get them something for adults. You might want books instead of magazines, though, such as C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton–our boys loved the Fr. Brown mysteries–and biographies and autobiographies such as “Story of a Soul.”
 
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Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country.

Seriously, though, what are they interested in? Our boys like Sports Illustrated. (The publisher allows subscribers to specifically decline the “swimsuit” issue.) They have also gotten Baseball Digest and liked that. I know girls who get Horseman magazine. If they like fashion, consider Fine Sewing. There are also magazine dedicated to beading and other crafts. In other word, avoid “spectator” magazines (IMHO), and get them “do-er” magazines.

National Geographic and Smithsonian are good if they just like to learn stuff.

As for faith-based magazines, they are also old enough for adult versions of those.** I’m finding that teens who like to read will (to be blunt) find most faith-based media aimed at “youth” to be insulting, it is pitched so low.** Get them something for adults. You might want books instead of magazines, though, such as C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton–our boys loved the Fr. Brown mysteries–and biographies and autobiographies such as “Story of a Soul.”
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I feel like I know what you mean by this, but at the same time, could you elaborate? I’m always feeling that faith-based media, youth aimed, just doesn’t seem to be “doing it right” kinda thing, but I can’t seem to articulate what it is exactly that bothers me. It’s not like the information is bad or the overall message…yknow?

Er…if this is a hijack/tangent then please PM me instead! 👍
 
catholicmamajoy said:
I would suggest “Love One Another” from the Society of Christ Fathers (great magazine for all teens and college students- male and female)
loamagazine.org/pg/en/magazine_issues.html

They might be a bit young for this one, “Verily”, but it looks great for the older high school/college age young woman: archindy.org/criterion/local/2013/06-14/verily.html
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I second the motion for verily - I don’t have a subscription yet, but it looks like an excellent source for young Catholic women.
 
EasterJoy said:
Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country.

Seriously, though, what are they interested in? Our boys like Sports Illustrated. (The publisher allows subscribers to specifically decline the “swimsuit” issue.) They have also gotten Baseball Digest and liked that. I know girls who get Horseman magazine. If they like fashion, consider Fine Sewing. There are also magazine dedicated to beading and other crafts. In other word, avoid “spectator” magazines (IMHO), and get them “do-er” magazines.
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Took the post out of my fingers. :). All my subscriptions are/were for video games and knitting/crocheting.

Not only are the magazines targeted to those interests but so is nearly all the advertising contained within if that also concerns you.
 
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I feel like I know what you mean by this, but at the same time, could you elaborate? I’m always feeling that faith-based media, youth aimed, just doesn’t seem to be “doing it right” kinda thing, but I can’t seem to articulate what it is exactly that bothers me. It’s not like the information is bad or the overall message…yknow?

Er…if this is a hijack/tangent then please PM me instead! 👍
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The youth who find offerings supposedly aimed at them insulting do not like that the prose is stilted and set about four grade levels too low, lacks substance, and tries too hard to be alluring through its use of color. It seems to presume that they have absorbed about zero of their previous catechesis and find religion boring…and that it will be less boring if the authors speeeeak verrrrry slowly and use bright colors. This is especially grating when a student is in honors English or other advanced coursework. They are capable of Shakespeare and yet get offerings that look more like something out of Highlights.
 
Thank you for the responses. We already take the National Geographic. One daughter likes it, the other does not. Really, what they are looking for is a substitute for People and Cosmo. They want to be up on the latest fashions and trends, just not the sex-laden half naked presentations that most magazines offer. I’ll check out the links that some of you have provided as potential solutions. I told my girls that, perhaps, they ought to learn about magazine production and create one themselves for the next generation!
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I liked The New Yorker and Teen Vogue when I was a teen. I still get The New Yorker, and I got regular Vogue for a while, but I don’t really have time to read it anymore. If I recall Teen Vogue was pretty tame–mostly fashion, music, teen celebs. I was never super into it, but my mom ordered it for me, and it was definitely set a teen appropriate level, but I wasn’t looking at it from the perspective of a really religious household. I was raised Catholic, but my parents weren’t super strict about it.

Edit: I should clarify that I started getting The New Yorker when I was an older teen, maybe toward the end of high school. There is a lot of good stuff, but if your girls are younger teens, there will be some material that will be a bit too mature.
 
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