by Kate Etue | Tips + Tricks
Recently, we’ve seen more and more doctors recommending sleep logs and sleep journals for those of us who regularly wake during the night, or have trouble falling asleep in the first place. It makes sense. Especially for parents. One of our problems, which KJ...
by Kristen Chase | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
I realize that a fitness New Year’s resolution is a bit of a cliche’, but in my case, it’s a choice I need to make for my health. After losing 25 lbs last year with a change to my eating habits (and no exercise), I’ve been needing to add a...
by Kate Etue | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
I’ve been trying to re-kickstart my yoga habit, and there’s nothing like a fresh new yoga mat to get me motivated. So when we saw that yoga mats in tons of fantastic designs from independent artists are now available as limited editions from Society 6, I...
by Caroline Siegrist | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
I was so charmed to learn about the Thermal Aid Teddy Bear that delivers comforting heat — or cold — in the form of a cute stuffed animal. If your kid has muscle aches from a growth spurt during those “wonder weeks,” or from a particularly...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips + Tricks
This is a sponsored message on behalf of KnowYourOTCs.org With cold and flu season officially here, parents are doing their best to help their kids when they’re not feeling well, which often means giving them over-the-counter (OTC) medicines to help relieve...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast, Food + Recipes
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 Team | Spawned Podcast, Food + Recipes
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: Dr. Tanya Altmann, who you may...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips + Tricks, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
When my oldest daughter was 17 months old, lying half-nekkid on the diaper change pad, she grabbed her genitals and said, BUTT! “No, honey,” I corrected. “That’s your…vagina.” Cough. Gulp. Eep. Deep breath in… Exhale. Phew. Why was it so hard? It made little...
by Lexi Petronis | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared a shortage of EpiPens in May due to manufacturing delays, it left a lot of parents of kids with allergies pretty freaked out. With good reason. Now that it’s back-to-school season, there could be good news for...
