by Christina Refford | DIY, Doing Good
Readers have asked us for ways to celebrate Earth Day with the kids — and while the 50th anniversary in 2020 was marred by quarantine, 2022 seems like a perfectly good time to make up for it. Certainly there will be celebrations in local parks, collaborative...
by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast
As parents ourselves, we know how hard it can be to keep up with what we should be feeding our kids. That’s why were so pleased to chat with our guest, nutritionist Nicole Turner Ravana, who has spent her career helping people understand nutrition and food...
by Cool Mom Staff | Food + Recipes, Podcast
We’re always up for tips and tricks to help us make our time in the kitchen more fun, which is why we were so excited to chat with Catherine McCord, of the uber popular Weelicious, one of our all-time favorite food blogs. We’ve been friends for years now,...
by Caroline Siegrist | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
Now that we’ve found new school clothes and back-to-school gear for all our kids (well, mostly), parents are now moving onto worry #2 — how to avoid back-to-school sickness. My family has already been through hand-foot-and-mouth disease and a wicked...
by Cool Mom Staff | Food + Recipes, Podcast
This week on Spawned, we’re talking kids and nutrition. Which, TBH, is one of those issues that nearly universally stresses out parents of all kinds, with kids of all ages. Fortunately, we’ve got an expert to help us out:Â Dr. Tanya Altmann, who you may...
by Cool Mom Staff | Food + Recipes, Tips + Tricks
Whether we moms are hitting the road for vacation, or just shuttling the kids back and forth to camp every day, we’ve always got a list of essentials in our handbags that we can’t live without. It’s part of our summer ritual: switch the black leather...
by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast
This week on Spawned with Kristen and Liz we’re tackling diets. More specifically, some of the hot diet trends right now (or, ahem, culinary lifestyle choices or whatever they’re being called that’s not “diet”) to discuss the pros, the...
by Stacie Billis | Food + Recipes
When my kids were younger, after-school snacks served largely as a reward for making it through the school day. Now that they are a bit older, what they eat after school and before their after-school activities provides necessary fuel to keep them going strong through...
by Stacie Billis | Baby, Food + Recipes
We here on the CMP team have a lot of collective parenting experience under our belts — or, uh, stretchy waist bands — and one thing that we all agree on is that starting solids is one of the most exciting and overwhelming developmental stages....
by Lexi Petronis | Beauty + Cosmetics
I like to keep things simple when it comes to shopping for beauty products, but I have to admit that it’s far from easy. I want high-quality, conscientious beauty products and I want them inexpensive. (A big ask, right?) That’s why I was intrigued to order...
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