Feature & Follow #30 ~ Magazines!

I'm so excited to join Feature & Follow Friday!! This is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read where they each feature a blogger with an interview and also have a question or activity for all bloggers to participate in answering. Please click the links above to follow the hosting bloggers and the featured bloggers and enter the link to your own post in the linky. Hop around to as many blogs as you can - find new blogs to follow and gain some new followers as well. Mingle and make some new blogger friends! :D

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 Q: What are some of your favorite magazines?

I like the question this week again! I love Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Soap Opera Digest, Psychology Today, and Game Informer. 

Rolling Stone has been like a staple of my life for the past fifteen or so years. There are so many covers that kick ass, and I'm a huge fan of music. If it weren't for music, I wouldn't be able to cope with some of the emotions that can be destructive to my overall health. Plus music is a great way to express those emotions that are difficult to otherwise put into words. I love how a lot of authors are including playlists with their books lately. 

I love Spin magazine nearly as much as I love Rolling Stone. They've featured some super awesome bands I love, and it's always fun to find out more about them behind the scenes of making albums and touring. 

Entertainment Weekly is always informative when it comes to TV and movies, even books too. 

I'm a soap enthusiast as I've added above under my blog name, and so reading Soap Opera Today is an absolute must for me. I haven't read it in quite a while to be honest because my husband's grandmother stopped subscribing to it and it's expensive to buy one issue at a time. I might get a subscription sometime - I miss it terribly. I always enjoy reading what other soap fans think about current storylines. 

I read Psychology Today more online than I do in actual magazine form. I usually borrow issues from the library as I do all the other magazines. I don't think our library carries Soap Opera Digest, which I wish they really did. Sometimes I just stand in the checkout at Walmart and glance through it, lol!

For two years we had a subscription to Game Informer from Gamestop, which I would renew for my husband's birthday. We're both really into video games. I used to play Final Fantasy XIII every week until Netflix. Netflix then took over my life. If I had a choice between reading and watching Netflix or playing video games, I'm gonna read. And blog. Read and blog. ;D 

What are your favorite magazines? Do you like to read them in actual magazine form or on your e-reader or online? I don't have an e-reader in color, so I don't read magazines on an e-reader personally. If I did, I probably would. :D  

fighting monsters with lightsabers

If you read my last post, I promised to look for the link to the article I had read about conquering your child's fear of monsters. I couldn't find the exact article--it might have helped if I could remember when and where I saw the article. :P My memory just isn't what it used to be! However, I did find plenty of other articles with the same theme of creative ideas. Below are just a couple that were interesting to me.
Fighting Monsters with Force Fields and White Lies
Helping Children with Monster Fears

The first link takes you to an article written for one of my favorite magazines, Psychology Today. The author mentions some of his colleagues expressed concern that the fear of monsters may be reinforced if a parent chooses a method other than telling the child they don't exist in the first place. I can see where they're coming from--perhaps this would happen in some cases, but I honestly think the number would be very low.

Children, especially the very young such as toddlers, don't think the same way adults do. My parents told me monsters don't exist, and I sure as heck didn't believe them! Eventually, I just grew out of that fear but suffered many sleepless and anxious nights until I did. I want to prevent that for my kids. I believe a more effective and possibly quicker fix to this dilemma calls for some creativity. :D

I'm want to know what all of you think! Whether you aren't a parent, are a parent, or will be a parent, please tell me your opinion and any experiences you'd like to share. If you are unable to comment directly on this post, then you can contact me in one of the following ways:

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Do you think "fighting" monsters with your child (or another similar idea) would be helpful to him/her, or do you feel that it would be feeding into your child's fears, thus reinforcing them instead of dispelling them?

Let me know your opinions, and I'll post them on here to share with others! :D