by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
There are more "mom" websites and social networking sites popping up than we can shake a BPA-free baby bottle at. And who can blame them? We are collectively awesome, thus everyone wants us to grace them with our virtual presence. One of the more promising...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
If you live in a little-ish place like I do, toy space is a commodity. Of course that doesn’t stop the trucks and books and dolls and crayons from accumulating (God bless the grandparents) so we always look for furniture that serves more than one purpose. My...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
I have been in love with Lisa Masterson’s artwork for so long I could hang it on my walls, my ceiling, lean it against my furniture, and rub it all over my body. But walking on it? Something I hadn’t considered.But Lisa considered it. Because now her great...
by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
My older daughter and I have finally reached the point where we can do crafts together that involve more than just dry pasta and pipe cleaners. There’s only two problems: 1) I’m lacking the creative-mom gene. 2) I’m not enthused about projects that...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media
Bilingual educational tools are all the rage in the US these days and The Cool Mom Picks editors have certainly come across our share of DVDs, CDs, books and other tools to get kids speaking everything from Spanish to…well, not Sanskrit. Yet. One of the cooler...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Neither of my kids took a binky, which was frustrating until now that I see friends trying to coax their toddlers’ pacifiers out of their mouths to give to Santa or The Binky Elf. (Who knew?) I also might have been the last to learn that binky clips are...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
We parents often have no problem sticking our kids in clothes that proclaim cutie or sweetie-pie or (gak) future model. But when it comes to proclaiming their obvious genetically-determined intellectual superiority, for some reason we stop short.No longer. The...
by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics
Before kids, I used to custom select the perfect little whatever for every gal on my Christmas list. After kids? So not happening. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to stick them all with impersonal gift cards and call it a day either. Idea: The luxe body...
