by Cool Mom Team | Tips + Tricks
As much as we would love to tell you how wonderful the morning routines are in our homes, complete with kids eating a healthy breakfast, packing their own lunches, and finishing up their morning chores before heading out the door (and of course, not even once playing...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media, Tips + Tricks
We know it’s so hard to keep up with your kids’ tech when you’re a parent — there are social channels, apps of all kinds, and so many games! On Out Tech Your Kids, our private Facebook community for tech questions and answers from parents,...
by Kristen Chase | Family Travel, Tips + Tricks
Whether you’re hitting the road for a quick weekend getaway, or are heading out for a family vacation, getting out the door can be pretty overwhelming. Between packing lists and all those last-minute to-do-before-we-leave lists, it’s so easy to get sucked...
by Liz Gumbinner | Family Travel, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
As a mom to kids who can get car sick — kids who have friends and cousins who get car sick too — I never travel anywhere without anti-nausea acupuncture wrist bands (which we recently shared on our list of 12 essentials you’ll always find in our...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech, Living
It’s here! It’s Amazon Prime Day, a shopping extravaganza for Prime members that starts today, July 16 at 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST and runs a full 36 hours this year. And, lest you think it’s all just a lot of hoopla over crap you don’t want, we...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
With summer pretty much here, that means Liz and I are about to say good-bye to a few of our kids as they head off to summer camp, some close by, and one well, to Japan! We get asked all the time about sleepaway camp, from wanting to know how to decide when a kid is...
by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts
As much as we love finding fun, funny, sweet, and sentimental Father’s Day gifts for you each year, one thing we really love doing is helping our readers solve problems. Like, gift problems. Like, finding the perfect creative Father’s Day gift for the man...
by Lexi Petronis | Father's Day Gifts
Yes, it’s nearly Father’s Day, and we’re kicking off our annual Father’s Day Gift Guide with some of the very best personalized Father’s Day gifts around! We’re always so excited to share our favorite gifts for dads, grandpas,...
by Kristen Chase | Storage + Organization, Tips + Tricks
It’s probably no surprise that decluttering — your home, and your life in general — can really help keep stress levels at bay. Whether you go full KonMari on your closet or just purge your kids’ toy bins from time to time, being able to access what you...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
If you’ve got spring cleaning fever like we do, then you know that there’s just something about the change of weather that makes us want to get things clean and organized so we can enjoy our homes and families. Turns out, there are a bunch of cool gadgets that can...
