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Lovely, love my etsy artists
Lovely, Love My Family by the Roots is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head in a good way. My girls discovered it after watching it on Yo, Gabba Gabba! oh, maybe 6,000 times and it's been a favorite around here ever since. So when I saw they had inspired a...
Chunky is in.
This week, I popped into one of my favorite NYC department stores to leave my drool marks on the jewelry cases--kind of like a wolf marking his territory. Hey, maybe if I drool on this case here no one else will buy it? And then they'll have to give it to me? Free?...
Hail to the finger puppet
We'd never recommend you give our forefathers the finger (especially on President's Day!), but in the case of these adorable knit finger puppets from Wee Knits, we'll make an exception. Their Patriotic collection of finger puppets includes George Washington and...
One Year to an Organized Life with Baby
Even if I had known about One Year to an Organized Life with Baby when I was first pregnant, I probably would have been too disorganized to read it. We had recently moved to a new house and to say we were unprepared is an understatement. We were fools. No, we were...
Art for cool kids (and their cool parents)
The thing about typical art for kids' walls is that it can feel a little... transitory. You know? Like, it's only up for a year or so before the kid moves on to a new thing.That's why this amazing wall art is so perfect. You just can't grow out of it. ModTots by...
Posterous groups – Making life easier for everyone. Mostly parents.
We're always on the look out for cool services that help make our busy lives easier. Over at Cool Mom Tech, we recently introduced our readers to our sponsor Posterous and their new smart Posterous groups service, and our readers were really, not surprisingly, really...
Celebrate Black History Month in good company
Having just observed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day last month, my kids are familiar with this major figure in black history. But I want them to know that history goes well beyond one man (or woman), and the fact that February is also Black History Month gives me a...
Baby clothes with magnets = Magnificent!
I couldn't even begin to count the number of times I've mis-snapped my baby's onesies and sleepers during a middle of the night diaper change. Heck, I've even done it during the day. And now, since finding Magnificent Baby, I'm seriously considering tossing them all...
Online meal planner? – Reader Q&A
I am looking for an online meal planner and shopping list generator...any suggestions? As I sit down to plan the meals out and do up a shopping list, I think to myself, there has to be a digital way to do this. -Aine If you really want everything from soup to nuts...
Breaking News: IKEA Crib Recall
The CPSC issued a recall of IKEA SNIGLAR cribs in the US and Canada, because the four bolts that secure the mattress support may not be long enough. Check your crib and see if the mattress support bolts extend through the nut. If so, you're fine. If not, the mattress...
Give me some robot love!
As a mom of two girls, I haven't had the pleasure of exploring any of the typical themes for boys' bedrooms, like cars, boats, fish and monsters and I'm fine with that. However, robots, at least in my mind, are cool for anyone. I am all over these Robot Pillows by...
A stylish baby gate. I kid you not.
I'm not a big fan of baby gates. Sure, I appreciate the protection they offer, don't get me wrong. But more often than not, they're ugly. Now, I'm no interior decorator, but I do like my home to look good. And bland wooden baby gates simply do not look good. Instead...
The Handmade Olympics – Let the voting begin!
A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to nominate yourselves or your favorite handmade artisans for the Handmade Olympics, a fun, entirely unathletic competition featuring amazing handmade creations. Cool Mom Picks was invited to be the official judges of Event 2,...
Talking parenting with Katie Couric
Yesterday, Cool Mom Picks editor-in-chief and publisher Liz Gumbinner joined NurtureShock co-author Ashley Merryman to talk with Katie Couric about some of today's hot parenting topics on Katie's excellent CBS News webshow, @katiecouric. If you haven't had a chance to...
Peeled organic fruit snacks – Paradise found.
"Snack" is no longer a bad word in my house. Once upon a time in my mind, one box of baked veggie sticks used to cause a downward spiral straight to childhood obesity and school drop-outs. Welcome to my neurotic brain.Of course my rational brain knows that healthy...
Hollywood Renaissance, emphasis on the naissance
We drop the word "cute" a lot, mainly because it's so versatile. Teeny tiny onesies? Cute. Gorgeous handmade jewelry? Cute. Sweet stationary? Cute. The guy who washed my hair this morning at the salon? Cute.But it's also refreshing when we find objets de baby that...
Let’s just pretend spring is here, shall we?
I have one word for this time of year and it's not nice. Stores are featuring spring clothes and outdoor toys, but outside my front door there are still the last vestiges of frozen snow, and I'm sure it's not the last of it for the season.So, for now, I'm going to do...
Wrap your gift in artwork.
These days, I'm lucky if I remember to get gifts in time at all these days, let alone have the wrapping paper on hand to wrap them up. But with an unbelievable number of birthday parties and special events crammed in my calendar, I'm determined to be prepared. And...
Celebrity style loot bags, without the celebrity-only prices
I love throwing birthday parties for my kids. Love it. But I'm a bit of an over-achiever when it comes to loot bags, generally insisting that there should be something handmade -or at least really, really cool- inside. And that means I spend precious hours (that I...
Flowery, beautiful, non-hurty hair accessories
Lately, my daughter is looking pretty sheepdoggy -- how is it that bangs grow five times as fast on an almost-4-year-old? -- and, occasionally, she will concede to wearing a hairband or ponytail so that she can actually see things before she, you know... trips over...
A parenting book you might be surprised to love
My dad died when I was 22 -- long before I met my husband, or had my son -- and my mom is very much alive. So you wouldn't necessarily think that the book Parentless Parents, by my friend Allison Gilbert, would resonate with someone like me. And yet it is one of the...