by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
Given the wide range of Presidential candidates still in the running this year, why not add one more? I love the Me for President layered tee from Wrybaby’s limited edition political collection. Depending on your perspective, the tee or bib are either a vote of...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
We’re certainly not anti-Valentine’s Day here at Cool Mom Picks; I mean what crazy person is going to turn down an excuse to eat chocolates and get flowers? But we like to think that if you’re going to stock up on holiday-type stuff...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
With the gaggles of educational animal shows and books out there, the cows, chickens, and puppy dogs of my childhood have been replaced with orangutans, meerkats, and my daughter’s current favorite, chinchillas. When not just any old farm animal...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
These days, you can’t throw a virtual stone without hitting a new environmentally conscious boutique. As we can attest, not all are created equal. Note to boutique owners: Just because it’s got hemp in it doesn’t mean I want my kid wearing it. On the...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I think every kid should have a costume chest (or costume closet if you have a big house like my sister-in-law). Boy or girl, there’s no better rainy day activity than pretending to be a butterfly or an alien or a superhero firefighting princess.The handmade...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
As much as I love those cute flouncy cotton kid’s aprons, frankly, they’re no match for a toddler and a spatula full of brownie batter. So I absolutely fell in love with the kids aprons from Beansoup the second I took mine out of the package. The first...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
Regardless of how you stand on the candidate herself, the fact that there’s a woman leading more than one presidential poll is pretty awesome. We’ve come a long way from the 70s when they ran ads in the back of Ms. Magazine for tees proclaiming A...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
I used to think baby clothes with snaps were the best solution for a wiry, wiggly baby. And then my brute of a son came along, and it was like wrestling a greased squealing pig into pajamas.So take my advice ye mothers-to-be, and invest in a few kimono tops, like the...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I love that we’ve still got a good few months of hat-wearing weather in my neck of the woods, only partly because my bald baby rocks the chapeaux rather nicely without all those fussy locks to get in the way. Our latest happening haberdashery find: The awesome...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Editors Best of the Year, Kid Style
Baby clothes Kristen: Maybe it’s because my husband and I are both avid guitar players, or because it’s one of the most amazing shirts I’ve ever seen. But either way, Damestarbaby’s handsewn guitar tee has won my heart. Liz: The cozy...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Maybe it was all those bad seasonal sweaters we grew up wearing in the 70s and 80s that somehow infiltrated our consciousness, but sometimes we just can’t help ourselves – we must must have a snowman-emblazoned onesie for the kid this winter. The limited...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
If I don’t count the looooovely dress my mother-in-law bought my daughter (note the sarcasm inherent in the word loooooovely), I technically don’t yet have a Christmas dress for her. I’ve been waiting for just the right dress to call to me. Except...