From my childhood experiences, I was under the impression that Highlights (for kids!) was available only in pediatrician and dentist offices. Mrs. Curmudgeon had a different set of experiences (when she gets her own blog, she can relate her anecdote of having an early horse picture published in Highlights), and so insisted Thing 2 get his own subscription when he got around to learning how to read.
My only objection to Highlights is the legendary "Goofus & Gallant" feature, which has the unfortunate effect (in my not-so-humble opinion) of making bad manners look like good clean fun and good manners look like the province of those in need of a more substantive hobby. If possible, Goofus and Gallant have both been redeemed by Jim Stallard's Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon, to which I was alerted by a dramatic reading on Wiretap (brought to you by our friends to the north in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Finally, a weird little nook in our collective psyche gets the attention it has long deserved.
