by Nicole Blades | Books for Kids
Monday, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and his innumerable contributions to this nation’s history and advancement. Books for kids about MLK can be a great way to help little ones understand the importance of the day. Although it’s a...
by Liz Gumbinner | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
The past few years have been — as if you didn’t live through them too — kind of hellish. Okay, very hellish. You don’t need me to share the many many articles about how much work moms in particularly have been doing to balance everyone’s...
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 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 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 Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
This week on Spawned, I have the honor of welcoming back the wonderful Anya Kamenetz, NPR Education reporter and author, to talk about her new book, The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Kids’ Lives…and Where We Go Now. I will tell you this: From the title...
by Cool Mom Team | DIY, Tips + Tricks
We’re always happy to offer up parents ideas for what to do with all that leftover Halloween candy you’ll surely end up with. Well, at least after the small gorge-fest that your trick-or-treaters may be entitled to after all their hard work. So we’ve...
by Caroline Siegrist | DIY
Who here is a fan of no-carve pumpkins for Halloween? As someone with a toddler who definitely shouldn’t be anywhere near sharp objects, I’ve become a staunch convert. And as someone who doesn’t always get to my Halloween pumpkin until the...
by Stephanie Mayers | DIY
I’ve been looking around the web for some great free printable Halloween coloring pages (did I mention free?) to help keep the kiddos occupied while the adults polish off that first bag of peanut butter cups. If your kids are anything like ours, your cobwebs are...