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Celebrating Our Customer Community! Here at Cookie’s, we’re always thinking of new ways to celebrate our customer community. For this reason, we’d like to invite you to share your story about Cookie’s Kids! Your story can be anything: the first time you visited Cookie’s or CookiesKids.com; a holiday gift from us that became your child’s [...]

Picnics Picnics are a fantastic way to spend treasured time with family and friends, enjoying the fresh air and warm temperatures. We’ve compiled some unique recipes to provide inspiration for your next picnic. Fried or baked chicken 🍗 is a picnic staple and a perfect place to begin. In sandwich or skewer form, it’s a great option for your picnic menu [...]

Almost everyone has a phobia of something – arachnophobia (fear of spiders), agoraphobia (fear of tight spaces), and acrophobia (fear of heights) are all common ones. Since many people can trace these phobias back to childhood due to a traumatic experience, many have had these fears for as long as they can remember. Ways to Handle Phobias If your child [...]

These days, it can seem like children just aren’t reading anymore. In an age of video games, cable channels, mobile phone apps, and the 24/7 internet, the idea of picking up a book can seem downright quaint. But reading hasn’t totally fallen out of favor, even though getting kids hooked on reading books that don’t [...]

Whether religious or secular, your family’s traditions are what make you unique – and they’re what your kids will remember most. But if you tried to sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” with the kids last year, and they lost interest around “three French hens,” it might be time to consider some new family traditions. [...]

Whether it’s a much-anticipated beach vacation or a somewhat less-anticipated trip to Great Aunt Thelma’s house, the holidays are a time when travel is more or less inevitable. If you’ve taken trips with the little ones before, it should come as no surprise that travel is fraught with pitfalls, many of the tantrum-inducing variety. So [...]

Surely you recall your first crush. The butterflies in your stomach when passing your crush in school hallways. The way you tried to act cool whenever they stepped in the room. How you’d written your betrothed’s name all over your Trapper Keeper. One day your child will experience the same wonderful, horrible feelings you once [...]

Why Kids Like Comfort Objects The term “security blanket” (coined by Charles Schultz in the comic strip Peanuts) is an accurate one; blankets and other objects help kids feel more secure. Many doctors and researchers agree that these items often remind children of their parents and, in the absence of parents, provide support and reassurance [...]

Don’t you remember yours? The punchbowl with its wilting lemon slices? The tottering, arms-length slow dances? That one girl who borrowed a little too much of Mom’s makeup? It’s easy to see school dances as hokey or downright lame in retrospect, but for your middle schooler the approach of their first school dance may stir [...]

Homework: scale-tipping backpacks, towering stacks of literary classics, mathematical symbols that seem to swirl on the page after a while. These memories are alive and well for today’s youth, whose take-home assignments aren’t all that different than the ones you did as a kid. After all, homework has been an educational staple since the dawn [...]