by Caroline Siegrist | Best Apps, Fitness + Health
Anxiety feels like a constant companion at my house these days, and I’ve been making good use of meditation apps for years now to help I’m happy to say that when I use them, they really dp make a difference. After all, we’re learning more and more...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
For busy parents, our smartphones have become our lifelines, whether it’s the calendar that helps keep families on track to the emails, social media, and various apps that keep us connected personally and professionally. That’s why it’s so important...
by Liz Gumbinner | Causes and Giving Back, Tips and Tricks
If you want to know how to check your voter registration, we’re glad you asked! Because you might have heard there’s a pretty big election coming up, not just for President, but for 33 US Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps
We’ve hit that point in the summer, where, we might be getting a little more lax about keeping kids off screens. (It can be exhausting, I get it.) The last thing parents want our kids to do the rest of the summer is to spend all day watching YouTube videos or...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kids, Photography
I am extremely familiar with the current trend of summer camps requiring campers to have cameras that don’t rely on phones, tablets, or internet connection. And I absolutely support the idea of giving kids a break from screens when they head off to sleepaway...
by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
A few years back, Kate tried out the smart, touchscreen Skylight Calendar to see if it was a helpful way to organize multiple family calendars in ways that benefit the whole family. TLDR; yes, she found it wildly helpful, and worth the price, and dozens of our readers...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
In April 2024, the total solar eclipse will hit our sky, and let’s just say we’re all pretty excited. If you’ve got the date marked on your calendar (or wondering if you should), check out these tips for watching the solar eclipse from our guest Mark...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories, Gear + Hardware
For some reason, I wasn’t familiar with Burga, which may actually make the coolest phone cases and tech accessories that I’ve seen for a very long time. And I’ve been sharing cool iPhone cases and cool Android phone cases for a very very long time! I...
by Caroline Siegrist | Holiday Tech Gifts, Gift Guides, Mother's Day Gifts
High-tech beauty products have improved significantly in recent years, making it possible to save a lot of money on expensive salon treatments for your skin, lips, nails, hair, and nearly everything else. It’s no wonder we’re all excited about them!...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
This past week, I received several emails “from LinkedIn” indicating that someone from Bardstown, Kentucky requested a “reset password” link in the wee hours of the morning. I shared this information on Threads and in our Out Tech Your Kids...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
I know we’re all still in New Year’s resolutions mode, whether you’re purging and recycling old tech, embarking on a family tech detox, or committing to more books and audiobooks and less mindless doomscrolling. But if there’s one thing the you...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
For so many of us, the new year is about organization and fresh starts. That’s why we tend to use January as an opportunity to cross off a few tech resolutions off our lists — or at least get a head start on some of those to-do list items we always bump...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
It’s not an exaggeration to say that email management is overwhelming to me. As someone with anywhere upwards of 10,000 emails in my inbox — many of them unread, to the dismay of my minimalist friends — I am always looking for tips and tricks to help...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment
If you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve at home with kids, and you can’t wait until real midnight to get them to bed, we’ve got some fun ideas for you! In 2018, we first shared a series of brilliant Netflix fake ball drop shows, and it was a...
by Cool Mom Team | Fitness + Health, Games + Gaming, Gear + Hardware, Holiday Tech Gifts, Tech Toys
While CyberMonday deals kind of started a week ago, making this entire week CyberWeek, it’s not to say that you can’t get some fantastic deals on tech products today — some of which have been on for a few days, some of which are brand new for today....
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Just last week, someone in our Out Tech Your Kids community mentioned how a major app just “pretends to care” about the well-being of kids, after realizing a child safety feature wasn’t particularly functional. And I thought, well, that sounds like...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment, Holiday Tech Gifts
I’ve written here before about how I learned to love audiobooks and the trick for me was finding memoirs and nonfiction. So I’ve put together the hottest memories of the year that are perfect for gifting. Think: new parents who don’t have time to sit...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
It’s always a good time to talk about how to best clean your phone and gadgets. But especially this time of year. With cold and flu season now meeting Covid-is-back season (again, sigh) it’s important to know how to safely clean your phone, or disinfect it...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
This week’s Washington Post article about the teenage boy sextortion scam by Chris Moody is all I’ve been thinking about. In part because I know a kid who was targeted in this way, and it was a terrible situation. But to learn that this is a problem...
by Liz Gumbinner | Educational Apps, Best Apps, Entertainment, Kids
As if I haven’t raved about the Rebel Girls books and the Rebel Girls app enough, I am now touting of the Rebel Girls Podcast. Since 2018, they have been producing three wonderful biographical audio stories a week, each just 14-20 minutes or so–perfect for...
