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12 smart personalized label ideas to help you save money, cut down on fights, and bring home fewer germs | Back to School Guide

12 smart personalized label ideas to help you save money, cut down on fights, and bring home fewer germs | Back to School Guide

by Liz Gumbinner | Back to School Shopping, Tips + Tricks

With back to school coming up, I’m sharing some of my favorite personalized label ideas to help keep you organized, keep you sane, save you money (whoo!) and even keep the peace if you have more than one kid. (Parents of two or more, you know what I’m...
Valentine’s hack to help make all those preschool classroom cards easier. For both of you.

Valentine’s hack to help make all those preschool classroom cards easier. For both of you.

by Liz Gumbinner | Kids

If you’ve got a child who’s excited to hand out Valentine’s cards to the classroom in preschool or daycare, but isn’t so great yet with the name signing — especially when it has to be done 18 or so times — here’s a clever...
9 cool personalized school supplies to help make the school year a little more fun | Back to School 2018

9 cool personalized school supplies to help make the school year a little more fun | Back to School 2018

by Liz Gumbinner | Back to School Shopping, School Gear

As we start to get settled into our back-to-school routines — and that includes realizing what gear is missing from last year, what we’ve forgotten to pick up, and what our kids have already lost (gah!) it’s the perfect time to welcome back our...
23 of the coolest space-themed school supplies  | Back-to-school shopping guide 2017

23 of the coolest space-themed school supplies | Back-to-school shopping guide 2017

by Liz Gumbinner | Back to School Shopping, School Gear

Looking at all the space-themed school supplies and cool gear we’re this year, we were thinking…wow, we could do a whole post on this! So, that’s just what we did. In fact for this year’s annual back-to-school shopping guide we decided to...
A BTDT mom’s guide to surviving sleepaway camp (you, not the kids!) | Spawned episode 79

A BTDT mom’s guide to surviving sleepaway camp (you, not the kids!) | Spawned episode 79

by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast

Today on Spawned, guest host Stacie Billis joins Liz for a great chat that should put all you first-time sleepaway camp parents — or future sleepaway camp parents — at ease. Well, mostly. Tune in for tips like when to know your kid is ready for camp, how...
6 essential sleepaway camp packing tips to keep you organized and sane (if not a little sad)

6 essential sleepaway camp packing tips to keep you organized and sane (if not a little sad)

by Lexi Petronis | Family Travel

If your kid is going to sleepaway camp this summer — especially if it’s for the first time — your family is probably dealing with a lot of organizational kerfuffles right about now. Not the least of which is packing. Even though your camp will send...
If toilets could talk: 9 funny things every parent wishes our homes could say to our kids.

If toilets could talk: 9 funny things every parent wishes our homes could say to our kids.

by Cool Mom Staff | Living

We’re happy to be working with our sponsor Brother to bring you this post If we had a nickel for every time we told our kids to put away their shoes or pick up their toys, well, we’d be writing this from our yacht in the south of France while Jeeves served...
Cool, colorful school supplies to make September a little more fun | Back to School Guide 2016

Cool, colorful school supplies to make September a little more fun | Back to School Guide 2016

by Cool Mom Staff | Back to School Shopping, School Gear

So once you’ve gotten the hand sanitizer, the tissue boxes, and everything else on that classroom shopping list, it’s time to have a little fun with some colorful school supplies! We always recommend getting a little goodie or two for the kids that gets...
Great savings on some of the coolest back-to-school shopping

Great savings on some of the coolest back-to-school shopping

by Cool Mom Staff | Back to School Shopping, Cards + Stationery, School Gear

When we were growing up, the best part about back-to-school season was always shopping for school supplies. But things have come a long way from the small thrill of finding a Trapper Keeper pattern that matched your personality. In fact, our friends at Minted are back...
The coolest back to school shopping finds on Etsy, all with cash back. Thanks, Ebates!

The coolest back to school shopping finds on Etsy, all with cash back. Thanks, Ebates!

by Liz Gumbinner | Back to School Shopping, School Gear

Do you know how much the average parent spends on back to school shopping? Let’s just say, a lot. We love supporting smaller indie brands, and finding the cool school supplies out there that helps make this time of year a little more fun — but we also love...
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