by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, DIY
Finding all of these free sight word printables for kindergarten instantly brings me back to those sweet early days of school, sniff.I have teens now, but I remember how scary it could be to send your kid off to kindergarten, hoping that their reading and writing...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
With back-to-school season here, it’s the time we start thinking about teacher gifts, thank you notes, and for those of us with college kids in our lives, tokens we can send to let them know we’re missing them like crazy. For a gift idea that makes a...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
When we put together our picks for the coolest backpacks for preschool and kindergarten each year, we think about how exciting it is for little ones to pick what may be their very first school gear ever. They geek out over all their school supplies of course, but...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
“Joy rebels.” Doesn’t that sound like a wonderful thing to teach our kids to be? If you think so too, you’re going to love my conversation with NY Times best-selling author and illustrator, director, dad, and all-around excellent human, Brad...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, Kids
The first trick in finding a cool lunch bag for teens that they’ll actually use is to make sure they have a say. So sit down with them and peruse our picks, created with the help of our own teens. As our own kids have gotten older, we know they prefer lunch bags...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
Can one bra support a 32A, A 34D, and a 36C all at once? We found ones that can! Thanks to our newest partner, the cult-favorite affordable luxury lingerie brand, NEIWAI. Nearly every woman knows about the array of bras in multiple sizes we’re forced to collect:...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, Fashion, Kid Style
Neon sneakers are huge this year, and wow are there a lot of great ones! If you’re looking for cool neon sneakers for back to school, and you’ve followed the excitement of the Team USA world-record-setting wins at the Paris Olympics, you know you’re...
by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Spawned Podcast
News flash: We all age! Every day! And yet the world can be tough on us for doing just that. So how do we move forward with joy and learn to celebrate all our phases of life as women? And might we be inadvertently contributing to ageism in our society without even...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Gift Guides
Each year, we love scouring the web for the very best baby gifts to share in our annual Ultimate Baby Shower Gift Guide. It’s something we love doing, because what gives us reason to celebrate more than the hope and promise symbolized by the next generation of...
by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Spawned Podcast
The world is…rough right now. And that’s an understatement. So I reached out to my great friend, podcast host, and purveyor of wisdom, Dr. Christine Koh, who is sharing 5 small, tangible things we can all be doing to make positive change in our lives and...