Well, now I know how he scored 99th percentile in vocabulary...

[luuknam]

Found my 8.5yo reading The Economist: "Sometimes I like to read the news".

 

Major downside is that The Economist isn't cheap and I wasn't planning on renewing it.

[Arcadia]

The library might have a Zinio subscription. Else make going to the library or Barnes & Noble a regular excursion :)

 

Mine reads The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review and travel magazines because of their dentist, pediatrician, urgent care and music teachers waiting area being well stocked on magazines.

[luuknam]

The library might have a Zinio subscription. Else make going to the library or Barnes & Noble a regular excursion :)

 

Mine reads The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review and travel magazines because of their dentist, pediatrician, urgent care and music teachers waiting area being well stocked on magazines.

 

Mine doesn't see the dentist/doctor/urgent care often enough. (ahem - any urgent care visit is one too often, lol)

[ThoughtfulMama]

I caught my 7-year-old reading C&EN, Chemical and Engineering News last weekend.  I think we need to do some more library trips too.

[prairiewindmomma]

For many years, we got The Economist with Delta airline miles.  Then we switched to reading it at the library.

[wintermom]

That's cool. My boys love Garfield. Their vocab reflects this, too. Luckily, they also read other things to balance things out. ;)

[Kerileanne99]

I caught my 7-year-old reading C&EN, Chemical and Engineering News last weekend. I think we need to do some more library trips too.

Lol, my hubby and I are chemists, and he teaches university-level chemistry. We had decided not to renew our annual C&E subscription...until dd6 exclaimed in utter dismay: but what will I DO without Newscripts!!!!

[Artichoke]

The library might have a Zinio subscription. Else make going to the library or Barnes & Noble a regular excursion :)

 

Mine reads The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review and travel magazines because of their dentist, pediatrician, urgent care and music teachers waiting area being well stocked on magazines.

 

 

Yep, we use Zinio as well.  I was amazed to find so many offerings online through our library system.  It makes the $50 out of county fee even more worth the expense. 

[Arcadia]

(ahem - any urgent care visit is one too often, lol)

Anyone without an appointment gets directed to urgent care. So flu, strep, HFMD, ear wax ... gets handled by urgent care. It is not ER/A&E.

 

Besides Zinio, there is also Flipster. Your libraries may have subscriptions to both.

[EndOfOrdinary]

Mine reads famous speeches or YouTubes them. This last week he used oligarchy and fascist. Though I often find the subject matter troubling, I just tell myself it is history.

 

Amazon was allowing free back issues of magazines a while ago. We got an email about it. You could see if the Economist was on there. At our coffee shop, people can take home issues which are two months old. There are many with "dibs" on specific titles.

[bibiche]

That's cool. My boys love Garfield. Their vocab reflects this, too. Luckily, they also read other things to balance things out. ;)

I found that when I strewed Calvin and Hobbes DS's vocabulary definitely experienced a boost. ;)

[Dmmetler]

Also, my state has the Tennessee Electronic Library, which includes a lot of periodicals. It's state level, but usually local libraries have a link on their website where you can use your library card to set up an account. I don't know if other states have something similar.

[ThoughtfulMama]

I just recently subscribed to Scientific American so that if he's going to read every random thing in the house at least it's a bit more accessible to a non-expert.

[raptor_dad]

 

Major downside is that The Economist isn't cheap and I wasn't planning on renewing it.

 

Rack rate is $190/yr... student/rate is $115/yr... we currently pay somewhere around $90/year. We go in and out of subscribing to the economist because it is spendy and difficult to keep up with. If you call the 800 number and discuss it they can often find a better deal... it will never be as cheap as time or newsweek(whichever of those are still in business).