5 of our favorite techie Pinterest pins this week: Back to school edition

by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out our five most popular pins from this week. 1. Keep these awesome educational channels for kids on YouTube bookmarked to help your kids get ready for back to school. 2. Here’s a simple, free way to keep...

Draw (and dance) with Mo Willems in “Mo on the Go!”

by Shari | Best Apps

There’s nothing more delicious for a parent than when we appreciate an app as much as our kids do–even if it’s not quite for the same reasons. We really loved Mo Willems’ first app and his new one has even more of the spirit of the quirky...

Subscribing: it’s more than just an iPad. But it might also be an iPad.

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

Indeed, one of our Cool Mom Tech subscribers will win a fully loaded iPad this month, courtesy of one of our very favorite parent lifesaver apps, Artkive. But our subscribers get so much more than that every month. Our monthly newsletter brings you exclusive deals and...

The new Animoto Video Maker app makes video editing from your photos a snap. Or a touch and a swipe.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

We’ve been touting the benefits of Animoto video editing since the very first day we discovered how easy it was to make fabulous videos from your own snapshots, how professional they look, and how free they can be. (At least the short ones.) Well it’s...

How to keep track of what your kids download

by Jeana | Best Apps

I feel for parents of teens these days, who not only have to contend with the usual teen angst, but also have a whole new set of digital obstacles to face with their kids texting and app-downloading and web surfing. Not to mention apps like SnapChat (eek). Thankfully,...

Oh Appy Day! Featuring Ethan Hawke’s favorite apps

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

Oh Appy Day! is our ongoing feature giving you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. Last week, our Editor Kristen Chase had the chance to talk to actor and dad Ethan Hawke and find out his favorite app, just in time for...

RedRover 3.0: The best way to find stuff to do with your kids. A.K.A. The app every parent has been dreaming of

by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love

We’ve been big fans of the RedRover app since it first launched (and you heard it here first!), but let’s just say their 3.0 version is completely different, and honestly the best for parents yet. So much so, that once you’ve downloaded, you will...

6 smart tips for managing your kids’ screen time

by Jeana | Tips and Tricks

With a second grader in the house who is increasingly reliant on the computer for homework and projects, I’m finding myself becoming much more vigilant about what he’s doing when online, and researching ways to be better about monitoring screen and game...

How to get rid of unwanted cell phone calls? Lookup+ to the rescue

by Jeana | Tips and Tricks

Even though I’m on the Do-Not-Call registry, I sometimes get the one-off unwanted cell phone call from a telemarketer that I wish I could block, because it always seems to call the moment we sit down for dinner. While I have come to accept that a few might slip...

SnapCat app, ready to pounce when your kid screws up on Snapchat

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

With two tweens, I’m increasingly aware of all the trouble they might get into using social media like Instagram, Facebook, and especially Snapchat. A.K.A. “the sexting app”–eep! Even if it is just an accidental lapse in judgment, it takes only...