by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, Cards + Stationery, School Gear
When we were growing up, the best part about back-to-school season was always shopping for school supplies. But things have come a long way from the small thrill of finding a Trapper Keeper pattern that matched your personality. In fact, our friends at Minted are back...
by Liz Gumbinner | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
Do you know how much the average parent spends on back to school shopping? Let’s just say, a lot. We love supporting smaller indie brands, and finding the cool school supplies out there that helps make this time of year a little more fun — but we also love...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest impression, and when it comes to back to school shopping, it may be the backpack we spend all our time stressing about, when it turns out to be the $1 hamster eraser or the personalized pencil case that our...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
As parents, one of our favorite things about the web is the ability to find so many cool–often free–printables for kids of all kinds that make us all look like crafty geniuses. They’re especially abundant this time of year, as back to school...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
In the next installment of our Back to School Guide, we’ve rounded up some of the coolest lunch box accessories–always one of our favorite categories. We’re not miracle workers or anything, but here’s hoping they’ll make you look forward...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
Next up in our back to school shopping guide: The coolest lunch boxes and bags. And wow, there are so many, whether it’s your first year sending your preschooler off to school with lunch, or (lucky you) your kids are finally packing their own. And what would our...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
Next up in our Back to School Shopping Guide series are the coolest backpacks and bags for big kids. And you may know that’s no easy task, especially when kids suddenly have an opinion (or two or 27) about what they’re carrying. Here, you’ll find the...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
We’re so excited to bring you our annual Back to School Shopping Guide! Whoo! While you were busy drinking in the rest of summer, we were all busy combing the web to find our favorite back to school goodies to help get everyone a little more excited for...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping
While you’re all still lounging by the pool, making the most of your linen, or squeezing in a last minute vacation with the family, we’re already thinking about helping parents out for back to school season. (Oh, the sacrifices we make for you.) So...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping
For our 2013 Back to School Guide, we looked at four of the hottest style trends for cool school clothes for kids and (a little painfully) pared them down to some of our very favorite pieces. Remember with back to school shopping, you don’t need to buy...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
While we love the annual ritual of picking out a new backpack or fun lunch box to start the school year, there’s something about finding just a few cool school supplies for our kids that remind us that school isn’t just about homework and tests. Well,...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Shopping, School Gear
There’s no shortage of cool lunch containers, bento boxes, water bottles and other fun accessories to help make your kid’s lunch a little more appealing than our own brown-bag days of yore. Here, we’ve pared them down to a few of the very coolest for...
