Baby Gifts of a Different Stripe

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

I’m always stuck on what to get the newborn who has everything; particularly when that newborn isn’t the first to hit the household. All I know is, another package of onesies or flannel receiving blankets do not top my list. So check out the zebra-themed...

Tattoos Aren’t Just For Sailors

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

If you’ve got a family that’s planning to take you out out to brunch on the 14th, make sure they’re coiffed and clad in mom-worshipping style. Something like the Tattoo Heart Mom shirts from Inky Dink Tees. The company is the brain child of mom and...

Showing Off the Kiddos, Old School

by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery

With the digital age upon us, there’s no shortage of pictures of my kids.But unlessI want to myfriends huddling aroundmy laptop,there’s no actual enjoyment of my handiwork (the kids and the photos) to be had. I think it’s high time I develop a few of...

The Mercedes of Child Carriers

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

Sometimes when we hear about a latest/greatest/hottest new kids product we try it out and it really isn’t all that. (Snap, snap.) I know this is hard to believe–brace yourselves–but just because Courtney Cox-Arquette was given something for free...

Oh, Bull

by Cool Mom Team | Kids

There’s something about kids shirts and bad puns that seem to go hand in hand. Not sure what it is, but we’ve come across enough "chick magnet" tees featuring little baby chickens (Get it? Get it?) to lasts a lifetime. How refreshing to stumble...

God Save the Mommy

by Cool Mom Team | Kids

While Mother’s Day is a great opportunity to demand plenty of respect, adulation and pampering from the family, you shouldn’t be averse to being treated like royalty the other 364 days of the year. If you’re with me, then drop your own brood a major...

Bonnets, Brooklyn Style

by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style

I may gravitate to the classic and the traditional, but I don’t dress my girls like we live on a little house on the prairie. Thoughts of calico dresses and frilly bonnets give me Nellie Olsen flashbacks. No thank you. A hip mom/designer from Brooklyn has given...