Rolling with Dante Beatrix

by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel

We’re already huge fans of the kids’ backpacks from Dante Beatrix as we already revealed (again) this week, so it’s not surprising that they’ve got some new items we’re adding to the must-have-it-NOW-NOW-NOW list. First of all, their new...

Squiggle it, just a little bit

by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings

Now that I’ve put my foot down on the whole no-DVD-in-the-car thing (the same way Liz had mentioned earlier this week), I better have something to keep my three occupied on long road trips. So along with all the great kids’ music we play, I keep some...

Table Topics cards: Road trip essentials

by Liz Gumbinner | Toys + Playthings

I am one of those moms who avidly resisted a DVD in the car until I finally broke down before a 10-hour car trip with two under three. Even so, I am a strong believer in looking out the window, playing word games, and singing along to music, with the DVD as a very...

The Cool Mom Picks Summer Road Trip Mix Tape

by Christina Refford | Entertainment + Media

I’ve done enough seven-hour road trips with the kids to know that the right music can eliminate the fear of “are we there yet?” So before strapping the kids into their car seats, I spruce up our music collection with some new tunes for less money...

The awesome Omni Kids Suite, a.k.a a room of their own

by Julie | Family Travel

My girls have reached the age where they’d prefer not to share a hotel room with us when traveling — and to be honest, we’d prefer not to share with them either. So when we heard about the family friendly Omni Kids Suites available on a recent trip...

Azul Beach Hotel – Putting the word “vacation” back into family vacation

by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel

When my husband got his first vacation in about three years last month, we decided to leave the cold (yes, even Atlanta has been cold!) and head South. And then we remembered we had three kids under 4. Whoops. We figured we’d be relegated to chasing them around...

The Club Med Vacation: Only more appealing now that kids stay free

by Liz Gumbinner | Family Travel

I learned early on that family vacations tend to be something you do for your children. [Ahem, fill in theme park of choice here.] Not so Club Med. In recent years the company has converted nearly all of their properties from places that singles went to be…very...

Paging Dr. Mom

by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

Seems like every time my girls and I hit the neighborhood playground, there’s a mini injury of some sort. We’ve had the bee sting, the bloody nose, the scraped knee, and the invisible boo-boo that needs more TLC than Neosporin. You know the one. The...