The category of “mom” encompasses a tremendous amount of variety. There are 60-year-old working moms who are obsessed with PC gaming, new moms who are barely thinking beyond the next feeding, and every mom in between. I’m a mom too, and in addition to listing the things that I desperately want this holiday season, I informally polled a lot of the WIRED moms in my life to see what’s on their lists. These are some of our favorite picks.
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