by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
With the iPad Air as one of our top tech gifts of the year, if you’ve got one coming your way–or hey, even an iPad 2, iPhone 5S or iPod–we wanted to help you out with some of our very favorite must-have apps to get you started. Here are 8 of the...
by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Gear + Hardware
Even with the busy holiday season here, I’m bound and determined to set aside some personal time for momma to keep me sane. For me, that means reading a lot more. Like, a lot more. So I’m really excited about the ebook subscription service Oyster....
by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
When I started working in children’s publishing over a decade ago, I would never have imagined that children’s authors would be able to create an interactive book experience for kids like what Hullabalu, creators of the über-successful ebook series Pandora...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
Taking a road trip with kids any time of the year can be an ordeal, but especially during the holidays, what with all of America doing the same thing on the exact same days. That’s where travel apps come in to make our lives so much easier if we’re hitting...
by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I’m a sucker for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, especially at holiday time. Not only do I love the nostalgia, watching the same shows I watched as a child, but the humor and messages never get old. I think I might love the new e-book A Charlie Brown...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Every Saturday morning, I wake up and check the website Mommy Poppins to see what’s going on in New York City with kids. So do tens of thousands of other parents; so it made perfect sense that they would convert all those great listings and parent-approved ideas...
by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Remember playing the telephone game when we were kids? That one where you’d sit in a circle and whisper a phrase all the way around, and by the end it was nothing like the original secret? Well, now that game has had a makeover, hit the iPad, got an extra shot...
by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Pretty much every time we find an awesome new pick for toddlers, I sigh about how much I wish I’d had something similar when my own kids were toddlers. I’m especially impressed by the way tech has been integrated into learning and development, even for...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
This has been a major week for air travelers and tech! First, Delta became the first airline to allow use of small devices on take-off and landing. (Something we tried ourselves this week and yeah, it was kind of nice not to have to turn off Homeland on the iPad at a...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
While we’ve been singing the praises of Toca Boca apps for kids for ages now, we’re not the only ones. They are wildly engaging, often educational, and absolutely charming with quirky details and humorous characters that can only come from this...