Cool Mom Staff, Author at Cool Mom Picks

5 smart laundry tips for families that actually work. Because we use them ourselves.

by Cool Mom Staff | Storage + Organization, Tips + Tricks

No matter how many kids you have in your house, it somehow always means lots of laundry, and over the years, we’ve figured tried lots of laundry tips to help make the process a whole lot easier. Of course, it doesn’t matter what size your family is, you...

Holiday craziness and stress: Let’s sloooooow things down a little, please? | Spawned ep 174

by Cool Mom Staff | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Holiday Picks, Podcast, Tips + Tricks

If you feel like the holiday season came sooner this year — along with the holiday ads, the holiday sales, the Mariah Carey videos, and the holiday pressure, it’s not in your head. There are lots of reasons we’re feeling it more this year, and social...

4 smart, simple tips to help kids make good media choices with their screen time.

by Cool Mom Staff | Tech CMP-Style, Tips + Tricks

We write a lot about the importance of raising good digital citizens. The way we see it, the internet isn’t going away, and the older your kids get, the harder it is to start teaching them good behavior. So we start young, so that as kids get older,...

How the new HomeHawk by Panasonic makes home monitoring simpler, easier, and way less expensive | Sponsored message

by Cool Mom Staff | Living, Tech CMP-Style

This is a sponsored message from Panasonic HomeHawk If you don’t yet have a smart home monitoring system, it can seem overwhelming to get started. Systems can be expensive, and complicated, with professional home-wiring to schedule, and installation to figure...

Finding Kindness: A beautiful new children’s book with a message the world needs | Sponsored Message

by Cool Mom Staff | Books for Kids

This is a sponsored message on behalf of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes, which is exactly the lesson kids will learn reading the newest book from New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Underwood. Finding Kindness...

Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Book Club Selection #11

by Cool Mom Staff | Book Club, Books for Adults

After speaking with Dr. Ken Ginbsburg on our Spawned Parenting Podcast, I went out and bought all his books, one of which I’m thrilled to share is the next pick for our Cool Mom Picks Virtual Book Club. I found his approach to parenting teens (and well, kids in...

How can we prioritize what we love when we’re so damn busy? | Spawned Ep 172

by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast

Back in January, we spoke with Jake Knapp about making time for the things we love. In other words, prioritizing.(Way better word than “balance,” don’t you think?) Jake offered outstanding tips for making sure your days and weeks and years are spent...

New Johnson’s Hair Care: How to pick the one right for your child | Sponsored message

by Cool Mom Staff | Baby

Before we agreed to partner with Johnson’s on this series, we did our own research about their growth and evolution in terms of ingredients, practice, and transparency. As parents ourselves, we are incredibly conscientious about the brands we work with and we...

Should we be banning kids from restaurants? Spawned Episode 171

by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast

Just last week we read an article that said Japan Airlines would soon to be letting their customers know where children would be sitting on the plane. So what’s next? Kid sections in restaurants? With Kristen’s husband and Liz’s ex in the restaurant...

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Picks in 2006 to help make life cooler, more meaningful, and more fun for parents of all kinds.

Trivia: It was called Cool Mom Sh*t for the first two days. (Yeah, we rethought that.)

We had no idea our site would grow to become a major lifestyle network, that we'd end up sharing our finds with the TODAY Show and Martha Stewart, that we'd be able to make a real difference for so many small businesses and women-run companies, or that we'd end up with an incredible community of the coolest readers on the planet. (If we do say so ourselves).