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 change the age range for this magazine !!!! November 18, 2002
39 out of 42 found this review helpful
I was looking for a magazine for my niece who is 11...I have boys...so this was fun and difficult at the same time...I was reading the articles...some are great and appropriate for ages 14,15 ....but for 10 , 11, even 12...I personally would say absolutely not....I am all for the latest fashion...which they do have in the magazine and for "girl talk" ..but when I read some of these things, all I could think is ...these girls are focusing too much on boys, boobs, and kissing for 10 and 11 year olds...does her mom want this? Is this what all the girls this age are focusing on? their articles on celebs was good..but not enough substance for me to say this is a good buy...****they should change the age range for this magazine*****...I am so far from being prude...but this is overboard for GIRLS...but ok for young ladies !!!
 Great Magazine For 10-15 Year Old Girls!!! April 21, 2002
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
I really enjoy this magazine - I have been subscribing to it for 2 years now. It has great advice on boys, clothing, beauty, puberty, and much more. I know almost any girl my age would love it.I thoroughly disagree with the reader who said this magazine was inapropriate - it is not AT ALL! The clothes are MUCH less skimpy than in magazines like Teen People and Cosmo Girl. My mom looks at every single magazine that I get to see if it is appropriate or not, and GL is one of only 2 magazines that she has approved. This magazine approves of high self-esteem and being who you are and only who you are - and not anyone else. I love it and would recomend it to any girl my age (13)!
 For the Girly Girl Only May 13, 2003
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I subscribed to this magazine because it looked good-it had won the Parent's Choice Award, and it was ages 10-15. I've only gotten about 3 issues of it, and I don't like it. Most of the articles about crushes and fashion and dating, and the magazine usually displays parents (or should I say the "rents") as bad guys! Some parts are good, like GL Fun and Short Stuff. But I'd have to say that this magazine doesn't talk too much about sports and crafts and other stuff that girls like. If you're a girly kind of girl that's obsessed with boys and fashion, then you'll LOVE Girl's Life. Otherwise, skip it.
Girls' Life is...okay January 11, 2004
StarGymnast (California, USA)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I first encountered Girls' Life at my friend's house, an avid reader. Flipping through the magazine, I saw some good, okay, and bad features. Girls Life is targeted to ages 10-15, and it's good for those parents who feel as though their kid is too old for American Girl but still not old enough for YM, Teen People, etc. This magazine has advertisments, but not that many, and they're nothing inappropriate, just things like Smackers lip gloss or Secret deodorant. I think this magazine is appropriate for the age group that it is targeted to. Girls' Life has articles about school, boys, seasonal articles about holidays, fashion, real-life, celebrities (though there isn't any gossip about who's doing what), beauty, and other topics. I don't think you should read this magazine for it's beauty and fashion articles; try Teen Vogue or Teen People for fasion and beauty. Plus, there are quizzes, celebrity features and articles, embarrasing moments stories, advice to questions sent in by real girls, letters to the editor (of course!), and other fun features. You won't find any articles about sex and college, however. My only problem with this magazine is obviously that the editors don't know what kind of girls to put on the cover and in their fashion and beauty pages. Usually, there are regular girls on the cover, sometimes a celebrity. But the thing is, Girls' Life usually doesn't put normal girls with glasses, freckels, dark hair or skin, or non-straight hair. Most of them feed us the picture of the ideal girl: tall, blonde-haird, blue-eyed, perfect complexion, no glasses, no freckels. That can ruin a girl's self-esteem, so I suggest reading this magazine not for it's models, but for the actual content. Besides from that one problem, Girls' Life would be an okay magazine for girls age 10-15.
not for girls under 12 August 30, 2006
mmckenna (Raleigh,NC)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
The magazine is supposed to be for girls 8 and up... it is not. An 8 year old girl does not need to have information on contracting herpes, being sexually active and kissing. I am dissapointed that society thinks 8 year olds are ready for this material and thinks getting this info from a magazine rather than a parent is appropriate.
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