Cool Mom Picks loves Parents Magazine!
We were already huge fans of Parents Magazine (who isn’t?), but now we have even more reason to love them–for including Cool Mom Picks on their list of Parents Power Moms. Wow.We’re sooooo flattered to be a part of this fantastic list (if we do say...
KidSteals. No it’s not about stealing a kid.
Moms of babies that have grown up to be not quite babies anymore will be delighted to know that BabySteals, the popular daily sale site for baby gear, has introduced KidSteals. It’s sort of like one of those members only sales sites – only without the...
An app that makes living in NYC even cooler, if that’s possible
Ironically, in a city that seems to have more of everything, any NYC parent or visiting tourist will tell your horror stories of being unable to find a changing table or a way to get from the uptown subway platform to the crosstown one without dragging a sleeping...
Houzz call
From Christmas through January, I seem to go into serious nesting mode. All I want to do is organize my home and fix those shelves and dream about paint colors and alphabetize the kids’ books and…and…and… So I’ve had a grand old time...
Editors Best of 2009: The coolest websites, services and stuff just for moms
Cool Mom Picks certainly isn’t all about shopping – it’s also about those wonderful websites and services that help make our lives easier, simpler, or just more fun. (And wow things have changed; it wasn’t too long ago that we were all nervous...
Unwrap a free holiday playlist of kid-friendly songs
If your holiday music collection needs a little boost of something you haven’t heard ten thousand times already, check out the list of 7 free downloadable holiday tunes from Jitterbug.tv. They’re all original songs from cool bands for kids. In other...
Need Santa? There’s An App For That
I don’t need to tell you that it might be handy to be able to program calls from Santa into your phone, for when you want to remind the kids that he knows when they’re naughty or nice. Or to be able to pull, right out of your pocket, video to show a...
iPlay’n Learn – They should’ve named it iDistract’n Calm
A few weeks ago I had some friends over to the house, and one of them brought her three-year-old, who immediately commenced leaping around on the furniture like a chimp on crack. Given that my children are past that phase (or can be reigned in with a simple, Knock it...
Trusting your teen? There’s an app for that!
It seems impossible to me that I’ll one day have a teen or two whom I’ll allow to roam the world somewhat freely, but the truth is that teenagerhood will be entering my house very, very soon. Hold me.Vanessa Van Petten has been helping parents communicate...
