YLM's managing editor, Ya Hsien, provides an apt analogy to describe the function of his magazine: "If you equate classroom lessons with the main course of a meal, Young Lion Monthly constitutes the fruit after the meal--that is to say, it is full of nutritive value yet delicious to the taste."
因此他說：「如果把學校課業比喻成正餐，幼獅少年就是飯後水果，營養豐富，美味可口。」該刊主編孫小英則表示，幼獅少年的讀者是國中生，說他們小，已不必事事依賴父母；說他們大，又還沒有完全獨立自主的能力。