by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Nothing can prepare a first-time pregnant friend for the ordeal that is maternity shopping. Except for maybe you. That is, if you have it in you to dash her expectations that she’ll look adooooorable in those chic low-rise jeans for the entire nine months....
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
I’m all for books that teach my kids more than just their animals. I mean, cripes, if we have to take the time to read it to them 500 times, it might as well teach them other things too, right? Like how to make their own breakfast, mow the lawn, or even better,...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
New moms will agree that new mom advice is easy to come by. For example, there’s your mother-in-law and her stories about brandy in the baby bottle, or your childless cousin who’s quick to tell you about the evils of television watching. What’s hard...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
As a mama-to-be once again, I am suddenly remembering how absolutely every concern about childbirth and beyond is magnified by sixteen million. It’s not inconceivable that you experience as much anxiety over picking the right pacifier as you do picking the right...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
When a recent trip left me pondering The Complete Works of Shakespeare versus How to Fix The Kitchen Sink as potential beach reads, I realized I had a problem. The shelves in my home library are overflowing with nonfiction and kids’ books, but the fictional...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults
In my experience, there are two kinds of grandparents. Those who start every conversation with, “did I tell you the one about ________?” And before you even get to answer, they’re regaling you with every minute detail (again) about The Time I Met...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
If you’ve ever stood slack-jawed in the children’s section of Borders, entirely overwhelmed by the selection, you’re not alone. Board book or hardcover? Pat the Bunny or Hop on Pop? It’s maddening. But a book on books–that’s the...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
We’re not sure if there’s a better mani-pedi read than Real Simple. Admit it, you’re dying to rip out half the pages when the pedicurist turns her head, stuff them in your bag and sneak them home with you. Or maybe you actually have? So of course the...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Toss your copy of that alarmist pregnancy book, stat. If you really want to know what to expect during pregnancy pick up Stacy Quarty’s Frankly Pregnant: A Candid, Week-by-Week Guide to the Unexpected Joys, Raging Hormones, and Common Experiences of...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Forget the cloth diapers meticulously arranged in the shape of a three-tier cake and get your sister or girlfriend something she’ll really want to use. Like the book, Why Babies Do That: Baffling Baby Behavior Explained by Jennifer Margulis. Jennifer answers all...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Surely every parent agrees that whatever it is that gets our kids into reading, we’re all for it. (Okay, maybe not the SI swimsuit issue. But pretty much anything else.) Which is why we just love Books to Check Out for Kids, a journal from the always cool...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
I just finished reading Judith Warner’s Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. Considering I haven’t read a book since I became a mother, that in itself should tell you a lot. But, in order to pass the time at the gym, I have been known to read...
