by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
It’s back to school time as you may have heard (ha) so over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be serving up a few mini-guides to help get you ready, keep you organized, and get your kids excited. Today’s picks: educational apps for the younger kids in...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Whenever I take back my iPhone from my kids’ sticky hands, I find loads of goofy pictures they’ve taken. Because if there is one thing my kids love about my iPhone, beyond playing games, it’s being able to snap photos of everything they see. So,...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, we’re happy to welcome Kristin Davis who’s sharing a favorite. My daughter isn’t old enough for screen time and I haven’t started letting...
by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love
Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Here are our 5 favorite pins from this week that we think are worth sharing. Enjoy! 1. A brilliant travel gadget you Mac users should never leave home without. 2. A video gaming family’s organizational dream!3....
by Eva Glettner | Best Apps
I am all about tools that transform math problems into games that keep you engaged and thinking. So I am digging this new math app, Go Sum, because it is just perfect for kids that may be a bit math-phobic, while still keeping it interesting for the children that...
by Eva Glettner | Games + Gaming
One of my favorite games as a kid was MouseTrap, with that crazy three-dimensional Rube Goldberg device. In fact, I’m psyched that my kids love playing it as much as I do. This fantastic new app [edited] being distributed by the award-winning team behind Angry...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Who invented the alphabet? is my son’s latest impossible-to-answer question. I’ve tried to placate him with some smart talk, but the creators of the much loved ebook The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore have come up with a much more inventive and...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids have used their fingers and toes to help them understand numbers and counting from the days of 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed through basic addition. And now there is a new app that uses technology to help reinforce these concepts with your iPad though,...
by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My subpar geography skills are one of my husband’s favorite things to tease me about. Could I fill in that blank map of the 50 states we had to do in 6th grade? Note to self: 2013 resolution! But I still find our planet completely fascinating and get caught up...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
When we go on long car rides, I like to pack a bag of activities of things that keep the kids occupied for as long as possible before they resort to the eventual “are we therrrrrre yet?” One of the things I always throw in is our set of Brain Quest...
