This week on Cool Mom Tech

by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech

5 ways to watch movies at home, since we parents never get to the theater! (Hmph.)A simple web based to-do list organizer designed by a mom, graphic designer, and one of our favorite bloggers.Great video cams under $500. Or really, under $250. Because who needs to...

Won’t you be my neighbor? Heck, yeah!

by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment + Media

I firmly believe that anyone who does not love Mr. Rogers has no soul. So when I got word that PBS Kids is hooking up the next generation with my own generation’s favorite TV icon, I was so happy, I took off my shoes and put on some sneakers in solidarity. The...

Green: A great color for every baby

by Rita | Uncategorized

There’s so much advice for new moms to wade through, and after being pregnant and told you can’t eat spicy tuna rolls or a good brie for ten months, it would be easy to throw up your hands by the time you get around to choosing the safest, most...

I can bring home the bacon, I can wipe your butt with one hand

by Rita | Baby

My childless co-workers are intrigued by my ability to open almost anything with one hand. I did not possess these mad skillz when I was a new mom. So while the diaper clutches from Kristi G Diaper Bags touted the “EZ-Wipe System,” I was apprehensive. (And...

Excessively motivated parents, your owners manual has arrived

by Rita | Baby, Books for Adults

After researching my proposal for my own parenting book (Ahem, Sleep Is for the Weak, shameless plug, shameless plug) I thought I’d read every baby handbook on earth. And, I admit it, I became really jaded and snooty about them. Let’s just say...

Baby quilts approved by those of us who know baby quilts

by Rita | Baby

I’m from small-town Iowa, so when my daughter was born, the Quilting Ladies (as they are known) whipped up something custom, no problem. I didn’t even have to ask. But fear not, Quilting Lady-less mamas, for Etsy has delivered once again.Baby Jayne’s...

Something new in baby bibs? Believe it or not, yes.

by Rita | Baby, Kid Style

I know, organic cotton is cool, plastic is not.  But cotton gets … wet. With the drool. And the spit-up. And the yams.I’m grossing myself out just thinking about it.Never fear, though — Wow Baby has a new line of US made, double-lined, organic...

You say Maria, I say Mariah. Or, nah. Let’s stick with Maria.

by Rita | Books for Adults

Linda Rosenkranz and Pamela Redmond Satran raised baby naming to an art form with their original 1988 baby-naming book, Beyond Jennifer & Jason – names that practically seem pedestrian with today’s Talullahs and Artemises.  Now the authors are...

Childrearing advice for when you’ve misplaced your gay uncle

by Rita | Books for Adults

Fellow blogger and Vanity Fair contributor Brett Berk has unleashed on the world his parenting perspective with The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting: Candid Counsel From the Depths of the Daycare Trenches. Berk obviously has no uterus and no children. That said,...

Gentlemen, start your Roku

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media

If you still haven’t found the perfect Father’s Day gift (hello? Have you even been to our Father’s Day gift guide yet?)  we still have a few ideas up our sleeves that you can get in time to serve up with bagels in bed on June 21.If you’ve...