by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
Feeling feisty? Log onto a mommy message board and tell everyone you’re considering doing a "no gift, make a donation in our name instead" birthday party for your kid. You’ll be called everything from progressive and cool, to snobby, to a child...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
When I sent my older daughter off to day care, I scrawled her initials on masking tape and stuck these makeshift labels haphazardly on her bottles, thinking that ought to suffice. Oh, how wrong I was. Some of her things never made it home, and those that did were...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Ever thought to yourself, nursing’s great and all but you know what I could really use? Some spare nipples. Oh admit it, of course you have. And clearly you’re not alone. Which is why the always clever folks at Wry Baby has created just that –...
by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
While we would hope that all of our bestest friends and relatives could fly/drive/hitchhike on over just to shower our babies-to-be with the requisite 84 receiving blankets, it doesn’t always work that way. For a better alternative than some virtual...
by Julie | Random Coolness
As a child of the eighties, I was privy to the debut of many fads that should never have been, including parachute pants, bolo ties, and those cheesy Chia pets. If only the last one had died out along with the first two. If you want a cool plant to cultivate at home...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
I have a friend who spends every New Year’s day plants a new tree with her family. I think it’s such a cool tradition and speaks so beautifully to the concepts of growth, rebirth, and fresh starts. Plus, it’s way nicer than wasting the day in bed...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
With all the scary news lately (toxins and plastics and pthalates, oh my) I’m starting to look at everything that goes into my baby’s mouth in a whole new way. Starting with her pacifier.Well hooray for Zoë B organic, a shop stocked with all kinds of...
by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
After months spent in OB offices browsing parenting magazines that ran the gamut from mindless fun to downright annoying, I had no idea that there was something out there for moms that was actually (gasp) literary. While I love a good holiday cookie recipe or rainy...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Neither of my kids took a binky, which was frustrating until now that I see friends trying to coax their toddlers’ pacifiers out of their mouths to give to Santa or The Binky Elf. (Who knew?) I also might have been the last to learn that binky clips are...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
The latest hilarious, totally unnecessary, but absolutely fun item out for the parent who has everything: BabiePlates, customized European-style license plate for your carriage or stroller. Give them a name or message up to 11 letters (sorry, How’s my driving...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
If you haven’t yet bookmarked Mommy Track’d, The working mother’s guide to managed chaos, you haaaave to do it. Besides fantastic columns from great writers and a slew of resources for working moms, I always like poking around their shop to see...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
One of CMP’s all time favorite artists, Michelle Caplan is now wowing us with her brand new tooth fairy pillows. The coolest part? They don’t look like tooth fairy pillows. (Or at least that’s cool to me.)She’s essentially taken some of her...
