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Toys for adults: 9 super cool options that you’ll have to hide from the kids

This year, we notice just how much we’ve been writing up cool gift ideas and toys for kids and mentioning, but we’d like one too. It’s like the fantastic innovations in toys plus our need as adults not to feel quite so adult is colliding, and...

Alphabet posters for the non-couch potato generation

by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor

If you’re the type who hears news about kids needing to get outdoors more and wonder just who the heck they’re talking about, have we got an awesome pick for you. My Outdoor Alphabet is a series of beautifully designed posters, baby onesies and tees that...

Web coolness: Great summer reading, kids in nail salons, and Team Serena Williams

by Liz Gumbinner | Best of the Web

Here are some of our favorite reads from around the web this week. Hope you like them too. An amazing, kick-ass female athlete won Wimbledon and Kristen wonders why even the big media outlets are body shaming her. (Grrrrr…) Team Serena! Great summer reading...

Venice Beach-worthy skateboards for your little shredder

by Julie | Toys + Playthings

On a recent trip to Venice Beach, I wandered through skate shops and hung out at the skatepark. What can I say — I’m still a skatebetty at heart, even at my age. But unlike the old days when bumper stickers proclaimed Skateboarding is not a crime!,...

5 of our favorite cool tech picks you don’t want to miss this week

by Cool Mom Staff | Best of the Web

In case you missed them, here are 5 of our most popular cool tech picks from Cool Mom Tech this past week. Enjoy! 1. We’re counting the days for when this new Dyson gadget is launched. In time for winter, we hope. 2. Managing your iPhone camera roll just got a...

Web Coolness: Hilarious librarians, the kind of spam we like, and the hidden danger of trying to be a supermom.

by Cool Mom Staff | Best of the Web

Here’s our favorite links from what we’ve been reading around the web this week. Hope you like them too. Must see: the handmade items that fill Lucy Sparrow’s corner convenience shop. Huge congrats to our own Delilah Dawson! Reviews for hew new YA...

Our favorite safe, cool bike helmets for kids. Whether or not they’re future Tour de France riders

by Kate Etue | Toys + Playthings

It can be a struggle to get kids to remember to wear their helmets, but when their bike safety gear looks as good as these cool bike helmets for kids–they’re much more likely to use one. So since it’s July, and in our house the Tour de France is on...

Gifts for the dad who has everything: 2014 Father’s Day Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Father's Day Gifts

You know the dad who has everything? The one who’s impossible to shop for? Yep, so do we. So even though we’ve now suggested dozens of Father’s Day gifts of all kinds, you might still be looking. And we feel for you. So here, we present some of our...

Kick off the Winter Olympics with 7 excellent party treats, printables and activities for kids

by Kate Etue | DIY

The Winter Olympics will kick off this Friday night with their Opening Ceremonies, which is possibly my favorite part of the Olympics. My family loves watching this huge party on TV, but to be honest, the kids get a little bored by the time Hungary or Moldova is...

Web Coolness: Lisa Simpson for fashion week, more flex-work for parents, and the best baby photos ever.

by Cool Mom Staff | Best of the Web

Here are some of our favorite links around the web this week. Hope you like them too! Karate babies rule! Love this ad campaign featuring strong babies by Eric Sahrmann. You’ll laugh at these 21 kids who sold out their parents through their artwork....

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Picks in 2006 to help make life cooler, more meaningful, and more fun for parents of all kinds.

Trivia: It was called Cool Mom Sh*t for the first two days. (Yeah, we rethought that.)

We had no idea our site would grow to become a major lifestyle network, that we'd end up sharing our finds with the TODAY Show and Martha Stewart, that we'd be able to make a real difference for so many small businesses and women-run companies, or that we'd end up with an incredible community of the coolest readers on the planet. (If we do say so ourselves).