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PyeongChang 2018: 9 Fun Olympics crafts to get kids excited about the winter games.

I’m a total geek for the Olympics, which means I’m a total geek for Olympic crafts for kids every two years. Sitting with my kids, watching the pageantry of the opening ceremonies featuring athletes from countries all over the world, is always such a...

3 wonderful new picture books about African American heroes, all written by authors of color

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids

As a strong proponent of bookshelves filled with diverse books — in our libraries, our schools, and certainly at home — I’ve become much more aware of not seeking out books featuring heroes of color, but ensuring that a diverse group of authors and...

10 surprising holiday gifts you can find at Cracker Barrel — all 30% off!

by Kristen Chase | Holiday Picks

We’re road-trip regulars at Cracker Barrel, with its gigantic menu, clean bathrooms, and super fun general store — which always makes for a fun way to stretch our legs before we cram our big family back in the car again. So I’m pretty excited to...

Web coolness: A Southeast Asian Wonder Woman, a doll bringing more diversity to the toy box, and more

by Cool Mom Staff | Best of the Web

Here are the coolest things we’ve been seeing around the web this week. Hope you like them too. Don’t miss our last-minute Halloween Help Guide filled with hundreds of ideas for easy costumes, creative treats, allergy tips, party games, door decor, pumpkin ideas...

Should your kids be playing tackle football? 6 things that happened when this mom said no. | Thinking Parent

by Kate Etue | Thinking : Parent

Crisp mornings and fall weekends mean one thing here in the South: football. After school we see the kids out on the field practicing, and neighbors are making plans to tailgate. And while my husband played football through middle and high school (and even declined...

Smells like team spirit: 8 super fun ways kids can support their favorite team

by Cool Mom Staff | Kid Fashion

If your kids are big sports fans like mine, with lots of seasons just getting started or already underway, they love finding fun ways to show off their team spirit. However, lots of schools are starting to ban team jerseys (for real), meaning kids have to get a little...

Web Coolness: The $15mm kids sports industry, the best educational apps for kids, and a woman was fired for…what??

by Cool Mom Staff | Best of the Web

Here are the coolest things we’ve been seeing around the web this week. Hope you like them too. The new Time Magazine cover article on the $15 million “youth sports economy” is a must-read. 10 year olds are getting endorsement deals, parents are...

Tory Burch, Billie Jean King, and women’s equality FTW

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

I’d imagine that any of our mothers — and fathers — who were around in 1973 fighting the “battle of the sexes” would be happy to see the progress we’ve made since then, but disheartened to know that issues of inequality are still...

We can’t believe the reason a kids’ softball umpire asked a deaf 10-year-old player to remove her hearing devices.

by Kate Etue | Thinking : Parent

Parents of kids with special needs are used to having to fight for their kids’ rights. It’s part of the parenting territory. But when my friend told me what happened to her deaf child at her softball tournament this week, I was shocked. (Please note an...

The sports bra solution for girls who don’t quite need a sports bra.

by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Fashion

It’s hard to believe that when we started this site, I was thinking about binkies for my daughter, and now it’s like I blinked — and I’m thinking about bras. Gah! While I wholly admit that the affordable Target made-up-brand-name bras are...