by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Wondering how to amply convey excitement and understanding about Obama’s historic inauguration for your children? Me, I’m going to click over to Share My Inauguration with my oldest daughter, and show her what it all looks like from a kid’s...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Hey you guyyyyyyyys! Let me just come right out and say the new Electric Company kids’ show on PBS does not disappoint, and, believe me, I was worried. In fact, my first reaction to the relaunch was one of skepticism. How could they mess with Easy Reader?...
by Julie | Entertainment + Media
I’d always heard about infant massage, but I never felt comfortable enough to give it a try. I figured that slathering my babies with lotion after their baths was about the closest I’d ever get to practicing infant massage.Then I got a chance to check out...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Melissa Levis, the Moey of Moey’s Music Party, communicates to toddlers the way I wish I could, especially when they are getting on my nerves. Rather than tensely demand, “Share your toys!” this off-Broadway songwriter sings a bouncy song about...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If there’s one sassy heroine my daughter’s been dying to see come to life off her bookshelf, it’s Olivia, the cute little metropolitan pig originally created by British illustrator Ian Falconer as a gift for his niece. Lucky kid, huh? Well starting...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If you grew up anywhere around the NY area in the 70s, you understand that the proper response to How are you? Is I’m fine, me too, we’re fine and how are you. At least if you were like me and spent your afternoons glued to cult TV hit, The Magic Garden...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
There are days when I just want to listen to something a bit more aggressive than the usual children’s music fare. But, I learned a valuable lesson the day I jumped out of the minivan while the kids sat inside listening to Fatboy Slim’s F-bomb-laden...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
The first DVD release from CMP fave Uncle Rock, Number 1 DVD: Live from Kidtopia is a great example that kids don’t need big, commercial, overproduced videos to fall in love a band, provided that band has half an ounce of talent. And in this case, talent is...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If you have holiday guests (of the fun variety) to entertain over the next couple weeks, run — don’t walk — and grab yourself a copy of SingStar ABBA for PS2 or PS3. As a huge, cheesy, unabashed ABBA fan, when I had the chance to review this I was...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Instead of coughing up fur balls and sleeping, Pete the Cat goes out for a leisurely stroll in his spanking new white shoes. I can’t even imagine trying to get shoes onto my cat, never mind how miffed she’d be if she stepped into some of the things Pete...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I’ve never thought of the Blues as particularly cheerful until I heard Brooklyn’s Randy Kaplan sing Good Morning Blues, the first song on Loquat Rooftop. Amidst the amazingly nimble-fingered guitar work, I heard him ask, Good morning blues….blues How...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
My son has a crush on an older woman, and her name is Laurie Berkner. Judging by the number of times he’s listened to her new kids CD, Rocketship Run, he has fallen hard. Fortunately for the rest of us, we can understand his adoration: her voice on...
