The Kid Should See This Earlier generations may have seen their parents or grandparents restoring old leather shoes with a wash, a shoe tree, leather conditioning, color shoe cream, and a mirror polish. These days, it’s likely a […]
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The Kid Should See This Schooling fish, a mesmerizing, undulating mass of sleek bodies that bends, breaks and becomes again. This collective movement is dazzling, but also puzzling. A clear understanding of how and why it happens has […]
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Cool Mom Picks Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 – October 15 each year, and our favorite way to honor the occasion is by sharing some of our very favorite children’s books honoring Hispanic heritage. So this year. I’ve […]
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Cool Mom Picks As a small-space apartment dweller, I’m always thinking about ways to declutter. Not that I always achieve it, but I try! A lot of the trick, as I’ve learned, is about getting stuff off the floor that […]
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The Kid Should See This From the leads to the pencils, to painting and stamping, to finishing, this how-it’s-made promotional video for office and art supply manufacturer Faber-Castell is full of impressive moments. Watch as mounds of graphite […]
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Cool Mom Picks Here’s an obvious statement: motherhood is hard. It’s so hard, in fact, that it can often feel like you’re not doing a great job. It’s actually why I started my blog Motherhood Uncensored, and why author Leslie […]
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The Kid Should See This The Exploratorium’s Curious Contraptions exhibits showcase some truly delightful pieces of automata, mechanical devices that move in patterns and often create a scene or narrative moment. In this video, automata artist Keith Newstead […]
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Cool Mom Picks Those of you who are also fans of Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings may know that it’s one of our own favorite sites too. We include their list of favorite children’s books on our own annual lists of […]
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The Kid Should See This From the 4 Levels food science series from Epicurious, watch amateur Emily, home cook Gabrielle, and Tracey, a professional pastry chef of nine years, make their own delicious versions of the classic cinnamon […]
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The Kid Should See This Go behind-the-scenes at LEGO’s Kladno, Czech Republic minifig factory where the specialized machines endlessly mold, jiggle, and stamp little plastic heads and bodies, completely assembling the company’s iconic minifigures. They even have machines […]
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