by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Happy Dia de los Muertos! Or, as I think of it, single coolest holiday not yet imported to America. If you’re celebrating, or if you’re just a fan of the sugar skull motif, we found this colorful Day of the Dead melamine dish set to get your kids in the...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
If I told you a celebrity’s wife had yet another cookbook out, you’d roll your eyes, right? I admit I did when I heard that Jessica Seinfeld had just published Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food. But, damn her,...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Okay, so we like our funky, toddler-proof melamine dishes as much as the next parent. But with all the heated controversy about plastics these days, we’re slowly inching towards the whittle your own dishes out of wood camp. Because I suck at whittling, good...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Yes, I do plan to eat that. And that. And THAT. I’m pregnant and hungry, and I’m also grumpy enough to sit on you if you get between me and my food. Only problem is, I can’t always figure out beforehand what foods are going to taste good–and...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
In a perfect world, every restaurant would offer crayons and a paper placemat to keep toddlers’ attention away from the shiny, pretty knives. Or alternately, I’d remember to bring some myself to keep from having to let my daughter scribble on my checkbook....
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I’m convinced kids will put pretty much anything in their mouths that’s personalized just for them. Of course I’ve only tried it with pancakes, and birthday cake – not like those need much help going down. These Personalized Jelly Moulds...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Straws just make everything taste better. You could probably blend up a shake for your kids, the ingredients of which are straight out of an episode of Fear Factor, and they’d drink it if it had a straw in it. So I knew right away that when I stumbled upon the...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I’m not a cooking enthusiastic, but I do want to encourage my daughter to learn life skills. In other words, I hope she can expand her food prep repertoire beyond instant mac-and-cheese before she heads off to college. Unlike, ahem, her mother. The Handstand...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Who says that kids have to eat off of plates with ducks or chickens or other barnyard animals on them? Besides if you ask me, there’s got to be some sort of bad karma when it comes to feeding a kid a burger on a plate featuring a cute cartoon cow. Instead...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
We’ve officially hit the temperatures in my neck o’ the woods where icy cold liquid refreshments are starting to be top of mind. And just in time, we’ve turned up this totally clever and very official LEGO ice cube tray. It’s that awesome...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
When we receive an inquiry at CMP declaring, "no mom can live without it!" We can’t help but look more closely. After all, we’d hate to think of countless mothers needlessly passing due to the lack of a particular product. Well in the case of the...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I try to be a homemaker, really I do. If only because I don’t want my son to grow up thinking cooking merely involves pushing the buttons on the microwave–currently my main culinary skill. Fortunately, in this post-Betty Crocker age I found an easy option...
