Let’s hear it for the girls!

by Christina Refford | Books for Kids

CD audiobooks, or what I still call “books on tape,” are my secret weapon against boredom in the car. Our newest gem is Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder which follows in the footsteps of its much loved predecessors, Tell Me a Story and Tell Me a Story 2:...

Baby steals – As in amazing deals, not stealing babies

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

We make no bones about loving cool stuff here at Cool Mom Picks, and while we’d love to sport every single thing we feature, we haven’t yet won the lottery. So when we happen upon sites that let us snag the designer stuff at ridiculously cheap prices, we...

Come on over to my pad

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kids

The cult favorite Patemm pad was one of the first products we ever featured on Cool Mom Picks, back when we all had one kid a piece and were astonishingly better rested. Since then, we’ve added to our own broods while Pattem has extended their line of super...

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...