As for the Topic of the Day...
I did not - well, my parents did not have a subscription to "Highlights", but my grade school did, as well as my dentist's office. -Dr. Morabito!
My Mom had subscriptions to "Family Circle" and "Better Homes and Gardens", and I'm guessing that's where my love of food and cooking came from. Both magazines had "cooking with children" features, but I usually gravitated toward the regular, "adult" recipes. It's amazing how much both of those magazines have changed over the years. "BH&G" seems really dumbed-down now.
I did like "Mad" - mainly for the folding cover - but even at the age of nine or ten, I knew that most of the humor was beyond my age and frame of reference at the time. But I do remember buying any of the "Star Wars" related issues. Oh, and there was also "Bananas" magazine.
Right after college, I went through a MAJOR magazine phase due to all of those "2-years for $10" offers that were out there. "Men's Health", "GQ", "Gourmet", "Bon Appetit", "Cook's Illustrated", "Keyboard", "Electronic Musician", "Opera World", "The Advocate", "Out" and a couple of others. I remember doing a major cleaning, and after bundling up hundreds of back issues - and realizing that I had hardly read any of them - I finally stopped renewing my subscriptions. All that paper! All those trees!
Currently, I don't subscribe to anything, but will pick up copies of "Time Out New York" and "New York Magazine" regularly.