by Cool Mom Team | Tips + Tricks, Helpful Services
We have preached for years about the #1 rule of online shopping — always look for discount codes before you checkout — but even we forget that it always means…well, always. In fact, there are plenty of sites that just don’t spring to mind as...
by Kristen Chase | Tips + Tricks
We are always on the lookout for the best teacher gift ideas every year, and it may in fact be one of the top gift questions we get from readers every year about this time. (Then again in May.) And hey, I get it; if there are any people on my holiday shopping list...
by Kate Etue | Tips + Tricks
This is the time of year to get the very best deals on all your holiday shopping, and we’ve already shared some of the most amazing Black Friday weekend deals this year. But the secret is, often these companies offer even bigger discounts on Cyber Monday and we...
by Kristen Chase | Tips + Tricks, Family Travel
I have to admit, I never thought about my car’s tires a whole lot. I guess your tires are the kind of thing you don’t think about a lot — until they stop working properly. In which case…yikes. So I’m truly happy to support our fantastic...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
The toddler years comes with quite a reputation for putting poor, unsuspecting parents through the ringer. Well, we’re here to give you a little bit of your sanity back thanks to our special guest Dr. Heather Wittenberg aka The BabyShrink, who’s an expert...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips + Tricks
With the tragic California wildfires all over the news right now, once again as parents, we’re faced with prospect of having difficult conversations with our kids about natural disasters. We want to say the right things. We don’t want to give our kids...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
Whatever your feelings about what happened on November 6, 2018, we hope you can agree that it was an exciting, historic day for women. Over 100 women in Congress! YES! So, on this week’s episode of Spawned with Kristen and Liz, we’re talking about Election...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good, Tips + Tricks
Parents. We’re not like other people who can just drop everything and fly out to a swing state to canvas, or host raucous fundraising cocktail nights, or even attend a GOTV concert on a whim. But there’s a lot we can do — with our families —...
by Anne Wolfe Postic | Family Travel, Tips + Tricks
With winter breaks coming up, I know lots of our readers will be planning Orlando vacations. Because, family! And…Orlando! Let me just say, our family is good at vacation. We trained on our first trip to Disney back when I was pregnant, and our sons were four...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast, Tips + Tricks
This week on Spawned, we’re joined by Amiyrah Martin of 4 Hats and Frugal. She’s one of our favorite writers and Instagrammers and while she’s known for her great tips on saving money, she happens to be pretty sharp with time-saving tips too....