Cookie Magazine

by Nicole Apostola (Subscribe to Nicole Apostola's posts) Nov 8th 2005 11:21AM

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Cookie Magazine is part of a new wave of lifestyle magazines for parents. Heavy on the lifestyle, light on the parenting advice. For the Bugaboo owner in all of us.

Their website includes a few snippets of articles from the first issue, which goes on sale next week. The article on how to entertain for your child's first birthday is subtitled "Celebrate your child's birth and your rebirth as an adult with a no-cook dinner party." Color me funny, but if I still have to change diapers every day for the next few years, I'm not looking at my son's first birthday as my rebirth as an adult. That can wait for the time that he moves out of the house to go to college but before he moves back in with us as a twenty-something.

While we still use the Salon of Papa for our hair cutting needs, Cookie did have a good article on where to go for stylish kids cuts, including what each salon had to entertain the kids, and one salon even had special pricing for gum removal.

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Bonnie 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

Wow. Suggestions on where to pick up truffled goose foie gras for a one year-old's birthday! And 'advice' like "it is okay to leave the wax paper on the prosciutto." Might be a good source of ideas, but ones I would adapt a bit more for our lifestyle! Actually, maybe I can use ideas from this article to help plan my next adult party!

Nicole 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

Bonnie -- I had to do a double-take on the party instructions myself, because I wasn't sure whether this was a first birthday party that actually included any children.

My favorite quote from the NYT article was: "I want the things around me to be beautiful, even if I do have a couple of kids." In a weird way, I think parents who admit their children are ugly are brave :)

Leslie 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

I agree with both of you, Bonnie and Nicole. I am planning my son's first birthday party for next month. Boy, was I way off.

momma2mingbu 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

Some of those haircut prices were a little shocking too! YIKES!

Chris 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

I just read my first issue of Cookie and I know now why Americans save no money, bankruptcy rates are higher than ever and our kids are getting more materialistic every day...who buys $110 boots for a 4 year old? Or $200 sweater for a 3 year old? How about putting some money in a savings account people. I say less ads and more realistic articles.

Chris 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

mjbaby 12-18-2005 @ 6:45PM

Chris, you make good sense but I think you missed the Cookie point. This ain't your mama's middle-class parenting mag and if you don't grok the $200 sweater or the $12,000 beach vacation then you aren't in the demo, as they say. I'm not so concerned about Cookie's targets not saving - they're likely doing just fine thankyouverymuch. It's the people who really want to *look* like they're in the demo that have the problem.

leslie 12-26-2005 @ 5:09AM

wow! i did enjoy looking at this first issue of cookie mag. but to be able to afford some of these things, my children will do without. however, i did love some of the ideas i read about. like the art party, is one that i will adapt to my needs, and use. the magazine is upscale and ritzy, but for this not fitting in the "demo" by a long shot mom, it does contain some fun ideas in which to bring a family together. I do hope the next issue contains more of these ideas, while thinking to not every american can afford a bug a boo.