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Autism Into Art: Siobhan’s Story

April 2, 2012 SiobhansDream autism, children, craftivism, disability, Good Morning America, Home, kids, lifestyle, press, Read, Rhode Island, SiobhansDream, television, TV, Videos

Photo by Siobhans DreamIn honor of Autism Awareness Day, we’re bringing Siobhan’s story back from the archives. It was originally published on December 14, 2007.
My daughter Siobhan is three years old and she paints with her hands and finge…

Science rocks in Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention

March 23, 2012 Cool Mom Picks BBC, education, educational kids' TV, Home, kids' DVDs, kids' shows, Media, science, television

Long before I had children, I fell in love with the clay stop-motion characters of nerdy inventor Wallace and his lovable dog Gromit.

Why PBS should bring this circus to your town

March 4, 2012 Cool Mom Picks circus, family entertainment, film, Free or close to it, Home, Media, Movies, PBS, television, Tweens + Big Kids

Last summer, our editor Liz gushed about the wonders of Circus Smirkus, the amazing single-ring circus whose performers are all kids. For those of us who adore these young performers and want to see more, more, more, there is a way to bring the circus …

Fighting evil with rock ‘n’ roll, Aquabats style

March 3, 2012 Cool Mom Picks family entertainment, Home, kids' music, kids' shows, Media, music, television

The minds behind Yo Gabba Gabba! are not content to settle with one successful kids show. In fact, they have just hooked themselves a certain daughter I know with a brand-new show.

It’s Cool Mom Picks on The Martha Stewart Show!

February 22, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Baby Clothes, baby gifts, baby shower gifts, CMP Admin, gifts for new moms, Home, Martha Stewart, television

In case you missed our Editor-in-Chief Liz’s recent Martha Stewart baby shower show appearance, here’s the online clip so you can watch the whole thing right from your computer!

Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess puts the cross in cross-stitch

February 19, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), cross stitch, DIY, Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Etsy, Getting crafty, Home, home accessories, television, wall art, wall decor

I want to live at Downton Abbey. I want a Mrs. Patmore to cook dinner and a fleet of Annas to clean up and a closet of gorgeous, beaded dresses.

We’re on Martha Stewart! Yipeeeee!

February 16, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Baby Clothes, baby gifts, baby shower, baby shower gifts, CMP Admin, Home, Liz Gumbinner, Martha Stewart, Media, television

Our editor Liz Gumbinner practically skipped out of the 26th Street studios after her taping of the Martha Stewart Show this week. (Okay, she did skip, according to some reports. Just a little.)

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