by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Since moving my fair-skinned family to Georgia last year, I’ve really had a baptism by fire(ball) when it comes to sun protection. Oh, sure, we took precautions in the sun up north, but the sun here is fiercer, hotter, and completely relentless. And is there...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
We couldn’t leave you mamas with sleepaway-ready kids out of Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks, so we found some camp stationery we couldn’t resist. And, hopefully, neither will your kids. Which really is the point.The Camp Kits at Red Stamp may be just...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t Chinese, I’d still have a penchant towards Asian-inspired kids clothing. Given the chance, I could probably dress my daughter in gorgeous lotus fabrics and mandarin collar dresses all year long. But yet again,...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
When my daughter was a toddler, it wasn’t only cleaning supplies that had to go into high or locked cabinets — we also had to hide the band-aids, lest she plaster herself head to toe every time she experienced a boo-boo. Real or imagined.To this day, she...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
With extra protective parents and a ton of great outdoor resources right near our home, I saw my fair share of day camps growing up. So along with my swimsuit and an extra change of clothes, my mom always had to pack me a lunch. Of course, she never had anything as...
by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
Mostly we’re fans of handmade plush around here, but we also understand that not everyone wants to spend $85 on a penguin hand-knit from recycled sweaters then hand-stuffed with locally harvested cotton (even if it is totally awesome and you would be seriously...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids
When I left home, my mother sent my own baby book along with me. She had taken great pains to record minute details for me, including our family tree and every newborn gift I received, but it was her personal commentary – the notes scrawled on scraps of paper...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
If you’ve got a kid heading off to sleepaway camp or even day camp, you’re probably hoping that he’ll come back home again with the same stuff you sent him there with. Except maybe that peanut butter sandwich. Because that would be gross....
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
My daughter adores cartoon characters, as she is biologically programmed to, but I don’t necessarily like cartoon characters all over her clothes. (God love Diego for teaching my kid what an ocelot is but I don’t feel the need to reciprocate by advertising...
by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
Pity the average supermarket shopper; we have to push around banged-up, one-wheel- jiggling, sticky-handled metal shopping carts when we do our food shopping. If our carts looked more like the toy shopping cart from Plan Toys, I may enjoy the experience a bit more...
