by Liz Gumbinner | Cool Tech
Here are five of our favorite picks from this week that you might have missed. 1. You’ll want to bookmark these smart tips for monitoring your kids’ screen time. 2. A brilliant way to keep track of your luggage, or your gadgets, or anything else you might...
by Liz Gumbinner | Family Travel
A passport case is one of those small indulgences I’ve always wanted but it never seemed necessary. But with a few international trips under my belt recently, and seeing how ratty mine is getting compared with my kids’ less-used passports, I’m ready...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Uncategorized
I’m kind of floored to admit that the new Active Top Smart Drinking System from SIGG absolutely refused to leak no matter how much I abused it. This new line of bottles for adults and kids has a liner that’s eco-friendly, BPA-free and phthalate-free, plus...
by Kristen Chase | Family Travel
Growing up, I was fortunate enough to have a father who traveled for work and could take us with him on many of his trips. The sad part: I don’t have much of a written record of all our flying adventures. Now that I’m married to a pilot, my kids are...
by Christina Refford | Baby, Family Travel
Back when my now-tween was a babe, the one piece of equipment I dreaded using above almost anything else was her “portable” playpen. It weighed a ton, pinched my fingers every time I tried to assemble it, and just looked like a big ugly netted cage taking...
by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel, Tips + Tricks
One of our readers’ most common questions: what are your best tips for surviving travel with kids? We’re here to oblige! So we’ve rounded up our tried-and-true favorite picks for keeping junior travelers in great spirits. From day trip to 12-hour...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Just yesterday, the CPSC and KidCo Inc. recalled all 220,000 of their Peapod travel cribs that have been sold since 2005. We were so sad to hear that the recall was due to a possible infant death (though the cause is unknown), and others being trapped and...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Baby
If you’ve discovered the joys of babywearing, then you know that slings can be as addictive as shoes and cute dresses. But now we’ve found a super-light buckle baby carrier that shares the same magic as that perfect little black dress you can pull out of...