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I’m honestly, a big fan of National Geographic magazine. I just love the pictures, and all the offbeat stories that they offer with each issue. If you’re an outdoors type of person, you’d love the National Geographic magazine, anytime. Although I visit their website quite often, I still prefer their magazines – in hard copy. But what about kids? The National Geographic magazine is not quite meant for kids, sometimes it’s heavy on the understanding and reading comprehension. I think the magazine called Your Big Backyard Magazine is just what they need.

The Your Big Backyard mag is issued by the National Wildlife Federation for kids mainly.

I find it to be refreshing and down to earth, nothing at all like what is usually produced by govt bodies. No propaganda and preachy stuff. Kids actually love nature and the outdoors. Of course the same can’t be said for the adults though

What’s so cool about Your Big Backyard Magazine?

Well it mostly elaborates on what we can do around our homes. It relates to gardening, and what I like best is there are many nice articles on backyard wildlife (which we can lure into our backyards); pretty interesting stuff for city slickers, as well as country bumpkins.

Your Big Backyard Magazine is a great read for advice on how to look around your own backyard to find different plants and animals, and even how to create habitats for wild creatures. Gardens that host wildlife successfully are the real gardens, not some spic-and-span garden that is devoid of any life but the lawn grass and Petunia bed.

At any rate, Your Big Backyard Magazine is a good introduction to the natural world, and ties in with gardening nicely. It helps the young ones to see the connection between themselves, gardening, the natural world, and the wildlife that inhabits it. The pictures are cute, and there are drawings submitted by kids.

I won’t venture to compare Your Big Backyard to National Geographic Explorer because their audience is not the same. The former is for kids, and the latter is for adults. Granted, National Geographic has sweeping pictures of the landscape which Your Big Backyard doesn’t, but Your Big Backyard does have real practical projects for the kids to do. And that is what they’ll remember, when they “do.”

Instilling a love of nature should be done during the tender young stage, when your children are growing up. They’ll better realize their responsibility in taking care of the earth which we all share, when they grow up later.

Starting em young, is the best policy.

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