by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Handknit baby stuff, as we’ve seen, runs on a remarkably broad continuum from scratchy grandma styles to painfully amateur designs that seems sized for dolls. With three legs. And then there are the few amazing rock star knitters who totally dominate with the...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
As my toddler grows old enough to express clothing preferences, I’m a little less averse to frilly tutu kind of stuff and a little more into making her happy. (Don’t make me admit it in public.) Still, it’s nice to come across a compromise that...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
In our house, stocking stuffers weren’t the cheap crappy things you didn’t feel like wrapping, but rather the really nice (and sometimes expensive) loot that just so happened to fit in our stockings.Thus is the case with the sweet appliquéd and...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
So maybe you need a little Christmas, right this very minute – or maybe you’re doing your best Bah, Humbug every time you hear another round of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer in the supermarket. If you’re in the former camp, you’re going to...
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by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
I am now calling my son "The kid with the largest head on this planet" — said with love, of course. The search has been on to find a hat for him that’s cute, warm, and won’t cut off all blood flow to his brain.Well thanks to Faith’s...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
If you rummaged through my son’s drawers you’d find absolutely no sports themed wear. I’m just not a fan of overpriced licensed jerseys that help fund overpaid athletes.But I am loving Milkshaxs, a Vancouver clothing company that caters to the sports...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I’m not sure why strangers feel the need to go up to my little girl and call her "Princess." Is she wearing a tiara? Waving a wand? Setting me up in a 60 room castle filled with jewels? If only. Perhaps she can deflect the moniker with the tee from...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
There’s a rumor going around that boys love trains. I wouldn’t know for sure, but I will assume that every boy I’ve ever seen who needs to be pried kicking and screaming from the train set in our local toy store speaks for his brethren.If you want to...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
You might think that baby shoes made to order are merely something just for the rich. Allow me to correct that misperception. While perusing the wares at haute mama-run shop, Tiny McSmall, I lingered over all sorts of wish list-qualifying goodies from the likes...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I know that traditionally, it’s boys who like cars and trains and trucks and girls who like…I don’t know. Sparkles. I guess. So what do you do when you’ve got a daughter like mine who likes the cars and trains and trucks? You hook her up with a...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
When I think of grandma sweaters I think of scratchy, wooly, dated things that you pull out for holidays – if you really really have to. But Fairybread for Kids, is putting a new spin on the term. Brooklyn mom (and Parents magazine art director) Amanda Kirk...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I, sadly, don’t have unlimited funds to set my toddler up with one pair of shoes in every color for every occasion. (Oh, the tragedy of it all.) So what I try to do is find something cute that she can wear with dresses, but also lets her kick up the asphalt on...
