Tag Archive for ‘kid-inspired’
Mom of 3 Keeps Kids’ Hands Clean in Public Bathrooms
When you’re out and your little one just has to go, you don’t usually have the option to find a nice, clean bathroom to take them to — you just head to the nearest available facility and hope for the best. Then, when you get there, no matter how germy or gross it is, your [...]
Mom of 5 Keeps Tots’ Socks on Their Feet
Kezi Levin’s young son would not stop pulling his socks off his little feet. And when she had to bring him to a formal wedding, she knew she wanted something to keep him properly dressed throughout the evening. So she came up with the idea for Sock Ons, a stretchy over-sock garment that prevents babies [...]
Mom of 4 Solves Parenting Problems With 2 Kid-Inspired Products
Stay-at-home mom of four Athena Menoudakos always wanted to start a business, but put her dreams on hold when she started a family. As a mom, though, she kept thinking up ideas that would make parenting easier, and she found that other moms were having similar issues, too. Without taking any loans, she spent two [...]
Sportscaster Mom Has Pediatricians Prescribing Her New Infant Invention
Leslie Gudel already had a successful career as a sportscaster covering the Philadelphia Phillies when she had children. But when her daughter wouldn’t sleep in anything but her car seat for parts of her first year, Leslie decided to take on a second job — as an inventor. She couldn’t find an infant bed that [...]
Weekend Mom Entrepreneur Creates Funky Spandex Shorts for Sports
When Amanda Green’s daughter Jordan wanted some funky spandex shorts to wear for sports practice last year, she ordered a neon pair from American Apparel for $28. When they came in the mail, Amanda looked at them and said, “I could make these” — she just needed to find the right fabric and thread. The [...]
Mom Fosters Positive Family Talks With Tees
Melissa Patton wanted to make sure her young daughter learned what really mattered in life — things like being kind, friendly and happy — but she wasn’t sure how to start the conversation. So she and her husband came up with the idea of putting these concepts on tee-shirts so they could have a conversation [...]
High-Powered Consultant Quits the Grind to Create Stylish, Ethical Kids’ Clothes
We’re hopping across the pond to England for this week’s featured mom story to meet Sally Campbell, creator of Chatterpants, an ethical childrenswear company that specializes in brightly colored playclothes for babies and kids that are made from natural fabrics in ethical factories. When Sally had her daughter, she started making a lot of her [...]
Mom of 2 Invents a New Baby Product in Her Dreams
The idea for Hugga-Bébé came to Kimberly Davis in two very vivid dreams. First she dreamed about her nephew being swallowed up by his activity center, then the next night she dreamed about exactly how to create a product that would help support him properly. By day three, Kimberly, who had never sewn before, had [...]
Mom Inventor Gets $50,000 on ‘Shark Tank’
If you were offered $50,000 for a 55% stake in your business on a national TV show, would you take it? Watching Tiffany Krummins mull over the offer from real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran on Sunday night’s episode of Shark Tank, it was tough to tell what she was going to decide. But after a [...]
On-the-Go Mom Makes Bringing Baby Around Easier
When on-the-go mom Pazit Ben Ezri started feeling guilty that her second child’s naps were all in car seats, strollers, or blankets on the floor of her daughter’s dance class, she knew she had to do something. But without any background in sewing, manufacturing or materials, she had a lot of homework to do. With [...]
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