by Kristen Chase | Tips + Tricks
January 1 is my favorite holiday, and making New Year’s resolutions is my favorite way to celebrate. Okay, that and cleaning out my closets! (I know, I’m a party animal). I know that there are various approaches to New Year’s resolutions, many of...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
I have been thinking a lot about the pressure on moms to make the holidays magic! Perfect! Memorable! Fun all day and all night! But what we don’t talk about enough, is how we can have more fun over the holidays — not necessarily to make more fun. And the...
by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor, DIY
I know we’ve been sharing gifts galore, because hey, that’s what we do this time of year. (And quite well, I might add. Ahem.) But I want to call your attention to one more gift idea that checks all my favorite boxes — it’s from an independent...
by Kristen Chase | Spawned Podcast
It’s not the first time we’ve talked about the sex talk on Spawned, but if your school district is like mine (and many across the country), they are making sex education an optional, home-taught module. That means, we need to be more invested than ever in...
by Christina Refford | Doing Good, Holiday Gift Guide
For this year’s holiday gift guide, we really wanted to share some creative, irreverent, sassy and smart Gen Z gifts that give back to causes that our teens and young adults care about. We have Gen Z kids ourselves, and we know first hand how passionate they can...
by Christina Refford | Uncategorized
Personalized gifts have always been among our favorites, but finding affordable personalized holiday gifts — well, we really love a challenge. So we’ve found more than a dozen for you all, to help you select something extra-thoughtful for anyone on your...
by Christina Refford | Holiday Gift Guide
The span between shopping for a preschooler and finding a holiday gift for a college student seems impossibly short, now that many of us have hit that stage of parenting. But what remains is the desire to make the holidays really special for our kids. And since even...
by Kristen Chase | Spawned Podcast
Just when I thought I was pretty aware of what I needed to know about teens and sleep, I got my hands on Lisa L. Lewis’s book The Sleep-Deprived Teen: Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, And How Parents And Schools Can Help Them Thrive and I realized there was so...
by Kristen Chase | Tips + Tricks, Family Travel
If you’re looking for tips for flying with toddlers, you’ve come to the right place. Even though my four kids are now teens, they were once toddlers, and we used to travel a lot. That means there was a time when I was on a plane with toddlers and babies,...
by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics
This is a sponsored message from Style Edit These days, it’s hard to find the time, money and energy to hit the salon and touch up your color — or maybe you’re waiting until your roots grow in just a teeny bit more. Enter the cult-favorite, beauty...