7 of the best free printable 2020 calendars to suit any taste. And yes, we said free!
2020 is already underway., and normally we’d have shared our annual list of our favorite printable calendars with you for the year. But with some of our kids back in school late this year, combined with and some of the recent stories on the news, we may be a...
5 incredible deals on home decor at Zulily right now. It’s holiday entertaining season!
If you’re looking to score some deals right now without dealing with the Black Friday madness, our partner Zulily.Is a great option. You’ll find thousands of products up to 70% off including an entire home & garden category. If you’re freshening...
5 smart laundry tips for families that actually work. Because we use them ourselves.
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...
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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...
These 8 single-use products are going away in our lifetimes. Here are alternatives that make switching easy.
I love that increasingly, so many of us are trying to be more mindful with our product purchases, opting for eco-friendly reusable products instead of wasteful single-use alternatives. It doesn’t just make good earth sense, it makes good budget sense. Besides,...
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Book Club Selection #11
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...
Cards honoring women’s achievements beyond motherhood and marital status. (Shocking, I know.)
I just got wind of Statement Cards, a new line of greeting cards designed to honor women’s successes beyond the traditional congratulatory occasions. You know, like engagements, weddings, pregnancy and childbirth. Not that there’s anything wrong with any...
2 great books about raising activist kids: Cool Mom Picks Book Club selection 10
This go round, we’re going to change things up a bit in the Cool Mom Picks Virtual Book Club, because I’m going to be talking about two selections that I know are relevant to so many parents these days. In light of the recent Climate Strike marches around...
Decluttering solutions: Hang these 8 things to free up floor space!
As a small-space apartment dweller, I’m always thinking about ways to declutter. Not that I always achieve it, but I try! A lot of the trick, as I’ve learned, is about getting stuff off the floor that we just assume goes…on the floor. So we all know...
Brain Pickings introduces Art Pickings, featuring the most incredible artwork for children’s rooms and beyond.
Those of you who are also fans of Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings may know that it’s one of our own favorite sites too. We include their list of favorite children’s books on our own annual lists of the best children’s books lists of the year....
Atomic Habits: Cool Mom Picks Book Club Selection #9
I’m super excited to share the next Cool Mom Picks Virtual Book Club selection that many awesome people in my life have raved about. And sure, it’s not technically a parenting book, but who cares? If we’re making positive changes in our lives (and...
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We started Cool Mom Picks in 2006 to help make life cooler, easier, more organized, 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).
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