by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
Do you have a dream, a hobby, a passion, or a problem you want to solve and you think it could be a viable business? Do you want to know where to start and where the opportunities are? Or maybe you just want to hear about entrepreneurial women who are shaking up the...
by Caroline Siegrist | Books for Adults
I’ve been so glad to see more books about self-care for moms, especially since there are so many books on how to care for babies that leave us out of the equation, more or less. Strong as a Mother: How to Stay Healthy, Happy, and (Most Importantly) Sane from...
by Kate Etue | Books for Kids
This week is National Screen-Free week, our kids’ favorite week of the year. Ha! We love hearing from our readers about the different ways you manage screen time at home, including some of the tricks you’ve picked up from Cool Mom Tech. Lots of you have...
by Caroline Siegrist | Books for Adults, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
There are tons of books — not to mention unsolicited opinions from strangers (my favorite!) — on how to raise a healthy kid, but when you think about it, there’s not much out there on how to cultivate healthy moms. Which is why social worker, writer,...
by Lexi Petronis | Books for Kids, Books for Adults
Holocaust books for kids? Absolutely. Without a doubt. There’s no room for “but we have to keep our kids innocent!” — this is important. This week was Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, and we were all shocked to see the...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids, Books for Adults
Wow, journals have come a long way since I was a kid and I had a choice between a plain lined composition book or some cutesy diary with an easily pickable lock. Now, journals are so creative, with so many different kinds of approaches and prompts, making them far...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids, Easter Gifts
As we’re busy sharing all the traditionally cute bunny books and gifts for kids’ Easter baskets, here comes one that…well, it’s a long way off the beaten path of your typical bunny book. Presenting: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, an equally...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults
If you haven’t yet checked out our annual roundup of the the best lists of the best children’s books of the year, it’s well worth your time. But here’s one more book list that really caught my attention: Amazon’s list of the states that...
by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year, Books for Kids
The truth is, we want to give a shout out to the many wonderful children’s authors this year who dedicated their energies to supporting, uplifting, and empowering girls — and to those publishers who gave them the opportunity. But the one that really steals...
by Caroline Siegrist | Books for Adults
It’s been a tough year for women, but we’re convinced that the future is female, and that includes 2018. So in the spirit of sisterhood, supporting the work of more diverse voices, and in general, just discovering something new and wonderful to read right...