Category Archives: Mother-Son Videos

How to get your kid to stop watching TV

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I’m not the best mom. Yes, sometimes in order to get stuff down or end a tantrum I park my child in front of a TV.  But, at some point I think enough with this 2 d world. Whether it is what I want to do or not I have to get this kid away from the boob tube.  This was one of those days.  I’ve been getting this revamped site loaded and needed the free baby sitter, aka TV, to mind him while I did so.

Now, it was time to venture onward.  Surely he would be happy with the exciting choices I lay before him.  Park, library, play space, back yard?  Hello?

I didn’t know I was about to be ambushed like a foreign journalist reporting in Libya.

 

Am I raising a bad boyfriend? ( worries of a loving mother)

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Noman Bates or dream guy? What kind of son am I raising?  How do you mother a little boy with an eye on manhood.  A loving, attentive mother is going to make the best, happiest boy, right?  But, what am I doing to his future girlfriend ( or boyfriend)?

I’m besotted with my son, but the world won’t be…

Do you ever think about how you are crafty a future lover/partner/spouse?

Eau de Rex : one more time!

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I’m having a problem uploading my new vid for today, but I love THIS vid and I think everyone loves the smell of their kids more than some stinky crap in a bottle with a B actress’s name or worse, a “Real Housewife” on it.

Babies, hmmm

Mid Morning Show with Cool Mom: Room Parenting

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I always enjoy having a talk show in my own home. When Rex was younger he was a more placid sidekick. Now he is less Doc Sevirnson and more Crispin Glover. Special guest and Cool Mom player sister Carole drops by (be sure to check out her fun blog, LA Girl Now).

Our topic for today: being a room parent makes me understand police brutality.  Any room parents out there? Maybe you can relate.

Occupy My House

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Sure, lots of left leaning folks watched in horror as Mayor Bloomberg cleared the campers of Occupy Wall Street. I’m 100% with the 99% and its message against economic inequality and politics spooning big banks  while hustle for a hand holding. But when you have someone who is demanding, sleeps, eats and poops all in the same place, well, one can get frustrated.

Maybe this “‘movement” will mature or at least try the potty?

Our Reporter Daphne Brogdon is standing by, Daphne?

Eau du Rex

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I am VERY proud of this video. It’s one of my favorites of the year for sure. It turned out exactly how I imagined it. Thanks to cameraman Chun Ming Huang, producer Michelle Orrego who oversaw the editing to perfection. (I’m already practicing my acceptance speech for the Cool Mom Awards 2012.)

I know I am not the first parent to love their child’s smell.  Along with the cute round face, it’s another part of mother nature’s design that keeps one from leaving their wailing child on the side of a road. Recently, David Beckham commented on how he loved the smell of his new baby girl. Smell it like Beckham?

Some say it’s baby powder, some say it’s the absence of smog and cynicism. I think it’s a bit like fresh baked bread. My daughter still has a sweet smell, but it changes. I know it’s fleeting so I take big inhales of them whenever I can.

So, in keeping with my Italian Movie Star theme, I present to you the commercial I made for my favorite perfume.  But then it’s not really a commercial since Rex’s scent is not for sale

Dressing a Toddler

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Rex is two and a half now. So, natch, he is VERY sensitive. Sometimes when he gets upset or senses a personal injustice he curls up into a ball on the floor to try and hide from us. Sometimes he walks into the laundry room (I’m sure to get closer to our Kenmore washer and dryer) and shuts the door and wails. It’s not the painful wail. But the I have so many feelings and I can’t process them wail.

The silently injured Rex rips at my heart much more deeply. The noisy one I can ignore for awhile as I think “work it out dude, life is tough, can’t always get what you want.”  Rex removing himself quietly hits my buttons as I think to retreat and feel as if no can help is how I feel at my lowest ebb and I want to take him out of that.  Also, I know there is something about the male removing himself that gets me. A female making a bunch of noise, ah, that’s my MO, I can handle that.  But a guy shutting down is like reliving every relationship I’ve ever had.

Anyway, sometimes just getting dressed is cause for a toddler meltdown. We were in one and I was trying to get back on track the day we were shooting vids.  I said to Chung Ming, “Roll the camera, this is real life.”

I learned with Vivien, at three, you can’t fight it.

Rex’s Fashion Show

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Best Dressed Toddler!

Fancy dress for rough toddler boys!

Style and sporty for little boys!

I keep thinking of tag lines for the cute clothes that Blume sent to Rex. I saw them online and they kindly sent him this shirt with something extra. One with a tie and one with a tie and vest. Trying to get a real tie and vest on a boy who is constantly in motion is a lot harder than just pulling the one t-shirt over … which is hard enough since Rex has a huge head.

The “little man” and the “dapper dude” are a score. They also have shirts with pocket squares. Check out the whole collection.

Check out the “catwalk” of Rex’s choosing. He struts his stuff with the best of them.

Oh, new tag line: Super Toddler Model!

Recessionista: Hair

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This is the first in an occasional series here on cool mom. What is a recessionista? It’s thrown about a lot these days. I think it’s a person who is still trying to be as stylish and joyful as they were when they were fully employed, their house wasn’t underwater and they thought they had a retirement fund.

Now, sometimes, my “take aways” don’t work. But, oh, well, laughs are free.

Let me know your recessionista tip and I will try to work them into another vid.

The Move 3.0

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Since starting this experiment/masterpiece cool mom, I have moved three times. In three years. The boxes, the emotions, blah blah… The truth is I was FAR less emotional than previous moves. My skin is thick. This is also a very hopeful move. We moved into more of a shoulder area than where we owned before, further south from where we rented. I used to walk to cafes; now I can walk to auto body stores, but whatever. I’m so thrilled to have a second chance at home ownership, and I am really hoping we don’t have to leave this house for many years to come. But who knows?  In the meantime, I have really enjoyed fixing the place up for me and my family. Later, I will show you some of my DIY jobs.

I think this vid — like a lot the next week — will fall more into the “slice of life” category than big knee slappers. It’s the mood I’m in as I settle and nest, and being so flipping tired is short circuiting my brain (Rex’s 5am wake ups continue).

So grateful for what I have and for you all visiting the site.