by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
How do you get a skirt-obsessed preschooler who hates tights out the door without a battle in the morning? All hail the adorable knee socks – like these cuties picked by my daughter herself – from Tote and Tee.Owner and mom Amy Trusler’s girls are...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Lately we’ve gotten a few requests for cool preemie-wear. Considering the number of twins and multiples out there, we’re not surprised at all; what we are surprised about was how hard it was to track down something that made us go ooooooh. We found one...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
As my daughter prepares for preschool in the fall, am just now learning that bake sale goodies are not taken lightly there. I am going to have to get my act together if I want to compete with some of the works of frosting-topped art I’ve recently seen at PTA...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
The toothbrush holder is only one small germy step above laying your toothbrush on the bathroom sink. But since trashing ours and swapping out for a Flipper, I’m feeling way more confident that my daughter’s toothbrush is actually cleaning her teeth...
by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
At Toy Fair last month, I was taken with the series of Jambo Kids adoption dolls. Founded by a mom/pop team who wanted to create a toy their adopted Chinese daughter could relate to, these doll and book sets handle cultural and racial differences in exactly the right...
by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
At Toy Fair last month, I spent wayyyyy too much time with the very enthusiastic music maker John Hayden of Jamtown, investigating his selection of fair trade instruments from around the world. Okay, so I wasn’t investigating so much as I was playing with them....
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that trying out lingerie for CMP would entail me wiggling into a pair of post-cesarean underwear. But after my most recent of three c-sections last month, I couldn’t help but be curious about C-Panty, underwear...
