by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Fashion
Target has been pretty ahead of the mass retailer curve in terms of sensory-friendly and adaptive clothing for kids. And I’m so happy to see they’re adding new adaptive Halloween costumes this year, made for to help ensure that all kinds of kids get to...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media
With the announcement of the inspired casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming Little Mermaid live action reboot, certain people in certain corners of the internet lost their GD minds. I alternated between bemusement and more uh, intense feelings, about those...
by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor
The whole world has gone Royal wedding crazy and I can’t say I entirely blame them. Unless of course, they’re snapping up royal wedding souvenirs so fast they didn’t catch that this Royal wedding commemorative plate actually features Meghan Markle...
by Ellyn Exley Dvorkin | Beauty + Cosmetics
The trend of fun, retro makeup for adults is taking retailers by storm. It may seem crazy, but you can now find your favorite animated characters from your childhood on professional  — i.e. adult — collections of lipstick, blush, toner, masks, brushes and...
by Cool Mom Staff | Toys + Playthings
This is a sponsored message from Dynacraft In celebration of #PrincessWeek, Dynacraft will be giving one lucky little princess her own Disney Princess Carriage.  This way she can hit the road in royal style, whether she’s racing around to save the world, or just...
by Cool Mom Staff | Podcast
Thanks to the new Beauty and the Beast movie, we’re seeing lots of chatter about princess culture and whether it’s good for our kids. So, on this new episode of Spawned with Kristen and Liz, we tackle this hot button issue, and whether the whole Disney...
by Georgette Gilmore | Art + Decor
On the outside chance you have been hiding out in a yurt without access to technology for all of 2017, you know there’s been a massive revival of women protests this year and it’s pretty incredible to witness. Women and girls from all walks of life have...
by Kate Etue | Toys + Playthings
Even though Halloween is long over, my kids are still running around in costumes most days, as they’ll continue to do. It’s fun to see the stories they come up with when they dig through our dress-up box — like when Cruella deVille and an astronaut...
by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings
Though there are sure to be many awesome high-tech toys out there this holiday season, our latest obsession is the adorably low-tech wooden peg dolls by Wooly Llama on Etsy. I mean, what could be better than hearing your kids playing their own imaginary game of Star...
by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor
I was never a musical crib mobile kind of parent. And now that there are so many options for piping in lovely music into a child’s room — as in, lovelier music than that tinny awfulness in most crib mobiles — I love the idea of just a simple, pretty...
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