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The best list of last-minute holiday gift ideas that let you skip the $$$ shipping

I totally get the last-minute holiday gift problem. Believe me! I mean, we may have started amassing ideas for our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide in, like…February, but hey, we’re busy moms. And we’re busy shopping for you sometimes at the expense of our...

5 gifts to help kids develop valuable skills: Top holiday toys from Lakeshore Learning | Sponsored Message

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Picks, Toys + Playthings

This is a sponsored message from Lakeshore Learning Kids love toys — all kinds of toys — and parents love those toys when they get kids excited about learning and building skills they need through play. In fact, learning through play is how kids learn...

12 fantastic Hanukkah gifts for kids that are cool, not corny

by Liz Gumbinner | Holiday Picks, Toys + Playthings

Hanukkah comes early this year — December 2! — so it’s time to start gathering up ideas for cool Hanukkah gifts for kids. While of course every toy, game, accessory or gift can be wrapped up for Hanukkah, I love that we’ve been able to track...

Our favorite multi-denominational kids’ holiday tees for a happy Hanukkah, merry Christmas, and joyous everything

by Liz Gumbinner | Kids

Leave it to Free to Be Kids to create a collection of positive multi-denominational holiday tees for kids and babies that I couldn’t wait to run here to share with you all. We’ve joked before about the dearth of cool, clever Hanukkah tees and gifts for...

The ultimate Chrismukkah gift: Found it!

by Liz Gumbinner | Holiday Picks

The other night, at my annual apartment building Christmas party — that’s the NYC version of a block party, by the way — a neighbor asked, “so who here gets Chinese food and sees a movie on Christmas?” Basically, everyone raised a hand....

Liz and Kristen’s favorite holiday gift ideas from our 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Picks, Podcast

We have to admit that picking favorite gift ideas from our 2017 Holiday Gift Guide is sort of like picking a favorite kid; it was really hard to do! But, we somehow managed, and we had a lot of fun doing it. Whether you’re smack in the middle of your holiday...

Check out our top picks for toys and games all 25% off at Target today. YES!

by Liz Gumbinner | Toys + Playthings

Target rolled exclusive weekend deals every weekend in November and December and as a dedicated Tarzhay shopper, I am all about this! Especially since today’s deal is a whole 25% off toys at Target. What better way to say, “attention holiday shoppers:...

11 things from our childhoods that should definitely stay there!

by Cool Mom Staff | Toys + Playthings

This post is sponsored by Nintendo, who is awesome for letting us do this. The 80s and 90s were…quite a time. And so we cordially invite you to laugh with (at?) us as we depict some of the stuff we don’t miss a bit. From the hell of cassette tapes to...

The Chrismukkah ornament for all your interfaith gifting needs.

by Caroline Siegrist | Holiday Picks

Families who celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah totally get the best of both worlds. 8 days of gifts plus one blow-out morning of overstuffed stockings and packages? Dreidels and reindeer? Eggnog and latkes? Okay, maybe not those two at the same time, but still. And now...

FAO Schwarz is back for the holidays, and everything is not even a billion dollars!

by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks, Toys + Playthings

I didn’t grow up in NYC so I don’t have FAO Schwarz shopping memories like some of my city friends. But I did know about them from Big, and I loved pouring through their catalogs around the holidays every year, carefully circling the hundreds of high-end...