Two new parenting webzines worth looking into
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:01:00 GMT
I just found out about two new online magazines for parents that you should check out when you get a chance.
The Father Life is created specifically for fathers and will be launching its first issue in January 2007. When THE FATHER LIFE founder Ben Murphy became a father, he quickly noticed that there weren’t any men’s magazines out there created with fathers in mind; everything seemed to be for eligible bachelors. And parenting magazines were all targeted at mothers. He chatted with some friends and they decided it was time to create a men’s magazine specifically for fathers. Hence, THE FATHER LIFE was born. Babble was launched on December 12, 2006 and is geared towards hip, urban mothers and fathers. Published by the same people who publish Nerve, Babble takes a more irreverent approach to parenting advice than is typically found in parenting magazines. Babble will be every bit as disruptive to the status quo as Nerve was when it started. It will be a revolution in parenting magazines: a publication that talks to parents not just as caregivers, but as fun, smart, intellectually curious people. It will apply Nerve’s tradition of irreverent honesty to the experience of parenting without the infantilizing, hyper-judgmental tone or acquisitive baby-as-accessory bent of so much of today’s parenting fare. The subject of parenting needs a bold new voice because people lie about it so often. The topic is plagued by politically correct clichés and generic sentimentality. This is just what we said about sex nine years ago. Today there are more taboos and more social pressures around parenting than there are around sex. We will cover the most controversial topics in parenting via personal essays, our exhaustive info center, and witty, original columns like “Bad Parent” and “Notes from a Non-Breeder.”
