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Brains = Cool

With my daughter starting kindergarten, I’ve been thinking a lot about kids thinking lately. And more specifically: how to make thinking cool to my kid. Part of the problem? Pop culture surrounds kids with celebrations of the body, not the mind. That’s why...

Three cheers for custom pennants!

by Betsy | Art + Decor

I used to love the show Happy Days–remember Arnold’s and all the sports pennants hanging all over the walls? (You do remember Happy Days, right? I can’t be that old.) I guess that’s why I loved these personalized felt pennants from Kristine...

Why settle for a mere octopus, when you can make a Socktopus

by Cool Mom Staff | Toys + Playthings

I just do not have that kind of creativity it would entail to look at a traditional sock monkey and think, Hmm, I bet I could improve on that. But that’s what CMP fave Clarity Miller did when she turned one into a Socktopus. It’s virtually the same, only...

Board shorts for girls? Like, totally.

by Christina Refford | Kid Fashion

From hour-long swim lessons to screaming leaps over our backyard sprinkler, my daughters will spend much of the summer in their bathing suits. That’s why we’re turning to the swimwear from Girls4Sport which boasts a line of swimsuits made for active,...

Scooter Smackdown! Spring 2009 edition

by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings

Last spring, I recommended my family’s two favorite children’s scooters, the Mini Micro Kickboard and the Skoooch, based on extensive testing by three scooter-fanatic kids. During this past year, these children continued to grow as they are wont to do, so...

These children’s shoes go to Eleven

by Cool Mom Staff | Kid Fashion

If you need another reason to be happy it’s spring, just check out Eleven’s new Spring line of kids’ shoes. A sort of “big sister/big brother” to our fave See Kai Run, Eleven offers children’s shoes in bigger-kid sizes 9 to 3....

1977 Stocking stuffer flashback

by Cool Mom Staff | DIY

I fondly remember those goofy frustration pencils with the googly-eyed gnomes at the top, and how you’d spin them between your palms to make the neon hair get all crazy. You know, to unload all the frustration we had pent up in fourth grade.Artist June Pfaff...