I am a member of AOS. My mom has gotten me the membership as a Christmas present for the past 2 years. The magazine is nice. A lot of the time, though, I don't find too much useful information in there about growing 'chids, but I also don't have a lot of time to read through the magazine carefully. The pictures are pretty though. If my mom hadn't gotten it for me, I probably wouldn't have paid for it myself. At least not now while I'm in school.