5 tech picks you won’t want to miss this week

by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech

We’re in awe at how far technology has come, even in just the past year. Our favorite picks from the past week are so 2012. And that’s a really awesome thing. 1. Check the home thermostat from work? Turn on the fan from carpool? With the invention of one...

Costa Rica’s Peninsula Papagayo – Undiscovered paradise for families

by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel

The idea of a family beach vacation usually conjures up images of crowded beaches, a muddy ocean, and food I will wish I hadn’t eaten. Doesn’t really sound like a vacation to me. So when Four Seasons Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo invited Cool Mom Picks...

A guide to responding to those really bad emails from family. (You know the ones.)

by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services

We’re happy to be working with our sponsor Yahoo! Mail, who’s helping encourage families to stay connected via email. Which, as we know, is a good thing!While email (and email etiquette) seems to have been around for a million years or so, oddly, we all...

Editors Best of 2010: The coolest baby gifts, blankets, strollers and gear

by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year

Whatever we cover here for bigger kids, our hearts still belong to those beautiful new babies, and their new moms who are just discovering the world of cool possibilities for them. While we have an awesome annual baby shower gift guide with more than 100 awesome...

The video baby monitor that just may turn you into a video baby monitor fan.

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

In my now six year tenure as a parent, I’ve learned you should never say never. Because there’s a good chance, especially if you have more than one kid, that your never will come back to bite you in the butt. So while I can say with confidence that I will...

Hospital gowns get a (much needed) upgrade

by Carrie | Baby, Fashion

I know none of us cared what we looked like during the moments our babies were born. The health of baby and mama were the most important things in the universe, and there was very little room for vanity. But when I think back to all the hours (many many hours) before...

They grow up so fast. Don’t take bad pictures.

by Christina Refford | Books for Adults

Forget the baby monitor or motorized swing: what I really could have used when my kids were little was photographer and dad Nick Kelsh’s entertaining and smart new DVD, How to Photograph Your Baby, a companion to the classic book by the same name. If you have...

Sassy Web Watch iC: A video baby monitor for the truly obsessed.

by Julie | Uncategorized

When I put my little guy down for a nap, I close the door and don’t look back. I’m not one for compulsively checking on him (because with my luck, I’ll wake him up) and I’d never even considered using a video baby monitor. Until now.Lately...

A baby monitor for your iPhone? Sure. What the heck.

by Mir | Cool Tech

I remember that time we went to visit my folks for the holidays, and in the midst of packing the presents and the pack-n-play, I somehow forgot the baby monitor. Well, I was sure I’d hear the baby when she woke up. But by the time I went to check on her I...

Make it a Double

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

With all the great frank and funny mom books out there, it’s about time someone came up with an equally entertaining daddy alternative. So we were tickled when we found out that Robert Wilder, well-known writer, columnist, and dad of two, had done just that. In...