by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
“Mom! They aren’t wearing seat belts!” It’s funny what my kids and I noticed while we watched the re-released classic Escape To Witch Mountain on DVD. Kids sitting in the front seat without a seat belt, a “car phone” that has a cord...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
My love affair with Rick started when I was just young girl and I heard Jessie’s Girl come blasting on the radio. Twenty something years later, it’s still my favorite song of all time. (And there is a video of me singing it at a karaoke bar somewhere in...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I don’t watch a heck of a lot of kid TV, but I’ve been making an exception for the new DVD release of We Got the Bee which features a bunch of episodes from Nickelodeon’s series, The Mighty B!Haven’t seen it yet? Let’s just say the...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Pirates may be lawless, mean and smelly, but I’m having a blast listening to the buccaneering rock of Portland, Oregon’s Captain Bogg & Salty on their new CD, Emphatical Piratical. And fortunately, instead of telling my kids to rob and pillage,...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I’d like to thank Donny, Marc and Ben of Atlanta’s The Baby Grands for helping to bring my heart rate down after another “we’re late!”, mad-dash to the car with the kids. Hearing their cool, Jack Johnson-esque musical style paired with...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Hearing an eight-year-old belt out a song about romantic love, or a six-year-old mournfully sing about the end of high school is a bit unsettling. Fortunately, I have found Cathy Heller, whose debut CD, Say Hello to the Sun, gives my kids the type of melodic,...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
After listening to the 24 bite-sized songs on Parry Gripp’s Do You Like Waffles?, I’m pretty certain he could come up with a rockin’ song about any food product out there. In fact, this album was born after Parry tried his hand at commercial writing...
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Mommy, why you shakin’ your booty?, my son asked a few minutes after we popped in Easy, the 2008 release from Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. Never mind where a four-year-old learns such language, Easy is one cool hip-hop CD with music that isn’t watered down for...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If you had asked me about Nick Jr’s Yo Gabba Gabba! a few months ago–unlike editor Liz who’s their biggest fan on the planet–I would’ve told you, I don’t get it. However I am now writing enthusiastically about the Yo Gabba Gabba!...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
After reading the headline to this review, you may be wondering, When did Cool Mom Picks become Cool Grandmom Picks? I hear you. When I first heard that Neil Sedaka had put out a new CD of reworked hits for kids, I thought, There is no way this is going to be my kind...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Did I ever tell you that my oldest daughter is a music video star? Yep, it’s true. Check out the Bedhead video from the Jimmies, and at about 1:40 you’ll see her rocking out with a spiky red mohawk and huge smile. You’ll find this and more at...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Wondering how to amply convey excitement and understanding about Obama’s historic inauguration for your children? Me, I’m going to click over to Share My Inauguration with my oldest daughter, and show her what it all looks like from a kid’s...
