Child Nature magazines help start a child down the path to a lifelong love of reading and learning nature. This sturdy, board format magazine is designed especially for babies and toddlers between the ages of 12 months and 3 years. Each issue is filled with rhymes, stories and lovable baby animals. Child Nature magazines are fun, interactive reading experience for children and parents alike. Articles included have been on safe computer surfing, fun with nature, and pet time. The stories are varied from simple to harder reading abilities. Besides fun articles for kids, there is games to play. From simple mazes to crosswords. 

Children undergo tremendous intellectual, emotional, and physical development from birth to age 5. Providing safe, loving, and enriching environments for children at this stage is crucial to development. Child Nature magazines are a wonderful, inexpensive magazines for parents of young children. Get great parent/teacher tips for different ages. Read well-written articles on Child Development/behavior. The magazine's target audience is parents of children attending daycare, pre-school or kindergarten. The magazines give up-to-date information on such areas as health, nutrition, behavior, and discipline.

Nature behaves in predictable ways. Searching for explanations is the major activity of science; effects cannot occur without causes. Through Child Nature magazines primary children can learn about cause and effect by observing the effect that light, water, and warmth have on seeds and plants. Intermediate grade children can discover that good lubrication and streamlining the body of a pinewood derby car can make it run faster. A relationship exists between the way organisms and objects look (feel, smell, sound, and taste) and the things they do. Children can learn to infer what a mammal eats by studying its teeth, or what a bird eats by studying the structure of its beak. 

Child Nature magazines thoroughly review the research on brain development in early childhood and debunks some popular myths. A child's brain begins to develop before birth, continues throughout life, and is influenced by both genetics and the surrounding environment. How can parents and caregivers help young children excel? Although many parents and caregivers wish for a special toy, tape, or lesson to accelerate children's cognitive development, there isn't any one product that will do this. For instance, there is no scientific evidence to support the so-called Mozart effect -- that listening to classical music will raise a child's IQ.