by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
We lost $10,000.Or to put it another way, that $10,000 should have been ours – if only the moment of spectacular toddler hilarity captured on videotape had actually been captured on videotape. After which of course we would send it off to America’s...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids
They claim to be a "new concept in kid’s entertainment," but in saying as much, I think Giddio has sold themselves short. Their audio adventures may indeed be new, but the concept itself is old, and I mean that in the best possible way: These are...
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....
