by Kate Etue | Entertainment + Media
As a homeschooling mom, I know how educational documentaries for kids can help fill the days, balance entertainment with education, and even give us longer breaks when we need it. I even included it in my tips for parents who are now homeschooling. So I’ve put...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
This is paid content from BBC Studios It’s so wonderful to find a charming, modern, imagination-building kids’ tv show that adults can appreciate too, and Bluey is all that and more. Critics have even called it “a show kids can watch on repeat...
by Liz Gumbinner | Editors Best of the Year, Entertainment + Media
It’s hard to even know where to start with this — each of these women could be their own Editors Best of the Year, but together, they’re even more powerful. And that’s saying something. We have to start somewhere, so, as we often do,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Editors Best of the Year, Entertainment + Media
It’s no surprise to anyone who knows me or my kids that we are massive Broadway fans. We are so fortunate to live in The Greatest City in the World (name that tune), which allows us to see a lot of musicals. A lot. But my kids are hardly alone in asking for show...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media
With the announcement of the inspired casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming Little Mermaid live action reboot, certain people in certain corners of the internet lost their GD minds. I alternated between bemusement and more uh, intense feelings, about those...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media
Cheering for the US Women’s Soccer team right now? Us too! But So where can you watch the 11:1:2 team face off against France this Friday and take (thinking positively!) the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup quarterfinals? The game is airing live at 3 PM...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media, Family Travel, Kids
I often feel the resident New York City local mom whose inbox and DMs are filled with requests for “what Broadway show should I take my kids to?” And I don’t mind a bit. With two kids obsessed with musical theater, all of us lucky enough to live a...
by Kristen Chase | Entertainment + Media
There have been many brilliant Sesame Street parody videos over the years, many of which we’ve featured here on Cool Mom Picks, but this new one starring Elmo and the Lannister siblings from Game of Thrones might just take the cake. Or should we say, crown?...
by Liz Gumbinner | Beauty + Cosmetics, Entertainment + Media
As a devoted Game of Thrones fan who’s waited two loooooong (oh God it’s been so long) years for the final season that premieres this weekend, I’m scouring the web for basically anything GOT. The last thing I expected to find: A Game of Thrones...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media, Cool Tech
Video is the new TV for this generation of kids, if you hadn’t quite noticed. (Ha.) When we say to our kids, “let’s watch a show!’ their inclination is to turn their favorite video app or video platform on their little screens, and click play....
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media
It’s March Madness time, and here’s to all of you basketball-loving fans and your brackets and illegal but highly enjoyable betting pools! For those of you however who’d like the fun of a bracket competition without the basketball, we’ve put...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Style, Entertainment + Media
Last week I discovered this fantastic Into the Spiderverse t-shirt on Woot! by comic illustrator Adam Koford (A.K.A. ApeLad), I figured it would be blow up. But now that Into the Spiderverse won the 2019 Oscar for Best Animated Feature last night (and deservedly so!)...