by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
It’s homework time again! If sitting around the kitchen table learning parts of the body is a major bummer for your kids, check out this new amazing educational app. Imagine the children’s science museum on your iPad–and hey, it may even get them to...
by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My five-year-old son heads to kindergarten in two weeks. (Cue sobbing.) While he talks a blue streak and wields a glue stick like a lightsaber, we’re still working on his reading skills. So I was absolutely tickled by how quickly he became absorbed in Learn with...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
There are a few app developers who we know will turn out something great, before we really even test it out. Not a lot, but a few. That’s the way we feel about developer Nosy Crow, but of course, we had to take a look at this new app release just to be sure....
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
During those moments when you let your preschoolers have a little screen time or app time, my favorite word has always been “educational.” If they are going to make my iPad sticky with their little fingers, they might as well being learning something too,...
by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I like bright colors, moving objects and intense battles as much as the next guy, but my favorite incarnation of the virtual world is when it’s used for education. Particularly if bright colors and moving objects are part of the learning process. This is why my...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids’ love of electronics is not going away just because the grass is green again, which is why I really like a new educational iPad app that gets kids excited about the great outdoors—and even asks them to put down the iPad and go outside to experience...
by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I have shared custody of my phone… with my daughter. Basically it’s mine pretty much everywhere but the car. When I am driving on long trips, I know don’t need the tempation of checking mail I know is waiting for me, so I am a-okay to let her at it....
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Can you recommend any preschool foreign language apps for Android for my kids? -Kathy Hi Kathy, thanks for your question! You didn’t mention if there’s a specific language you’re interested in, but here are a few picks that offer great apps for...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
What kid hasn’t dreamed of rocketing off into outer space to see what is out there? The problem is, that cardboard box in the living room isn’t going anywhere so fast. Junior Astronaut – Breaking through the space barrier is a standout educational...
by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Finding nifty little apps of merit for the kids can be a chore all on its own. Every so often though we come across sweet and simple apps that not only entertain them but that also impress us. Color Genius for iOS does just that. It’s really the simple...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I had moved three times by the time I was eight, so I totally understand how it feels to be a strange kid in a strange land, a topic that is explored in a lovely new app for both iOS and Android users. Even kids like my own who have never had to be “the new...
by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps
If you’ve got an alphabet-hungry kid and are craving some awesome ABC apps for your iPad, I understand completely. When my son little, he was so obsessed with the alphabet that he saw letters in everything: a scotch tape dispenser was a G, a pancake needed to...
