Back to School Tech: The best apps to help kids with reading
Every year on Cool Mom Tech, we review and recommend the best reading apps for kids of all ages. This year, we’re putting all of our guides in one handy place, so you can bookmark them and reference them more easily. Whether you’ve got pre-readers or...
Back to School Tech: The best apps and YouTube channels to help kids with math
Every year, we put together a pretty comprehensive guide to the best math apps for kids, whether you’ve got preschoolers or preteens. This year, we’re compiling them all in one helpful spot, so you can bookmark this page and reference all of them if and...
Audio backpacks for back to school: Because headphones are so 2017.
These audio backpacks I spotted at Spencer’s definitely have the cool factor, with everything you need in a back-to-school backpack and something extra: a speaker! Related: The coolest backpacks for preschoolers and little kids I admit that whether they’re...
Cool gamer school supplies for kids with very, very nice parents | Back to School Tech 2017
Gaming has taken over the world — or at least our kids’ brains, same as it did when we were kids (ahem). But what our kids have that we didn’t have back in the day is such an amazing collection of cool gamer school supplies. Whether they’re...
3 best laptop bags for teens that will last longer than a single semester | Back to School Tech 2017
Since more and more upper and middle schools are requiring laptops or iPads in the classroom, we wanted to take a look at the best laptop bags for kids. Our requirements: They have to offer good support for our kids backs with all that heavy tech in there, and enough...
18 of the best math apps for kids, from preschool to high school | Back to School Tech 2017
With the new school year upon us, it’s always good to have a list of some truly awesome math apps in our back pockets (or really, on our tablets and phones) to help sharpen our kids’ numbers skills. So up next in our 2017 back to school tech guide,...
17 of the very best reading apps for kids, from ABCs to SATs | Back to School Tech Guide 2017
We’re kicking off our 2017 Back to School Tech Guide with some of the very best reading apps for kids and whether your kids are just beginning to string together letters to make words or they’re tearing their way through Harry Potter for the eighth time,...
It’s all about that space, ’bout that space.
It’s back to school time, which also means, back to school shopping time. That’s why we launched the first installment of our annual Cool Mom Picks Back to School guide, full of the coolest space accessories for kids. Yay geeks! From school supplies to...
14 of the best organizational apps for parents to help keep you sane | Cool Mom Tech Back to School Tech Guide 2016
We love finding the best organizational apps for parents each year because honestly? We need them ourselves! If you’re anything like me, all household organization seems to disappear over the summer as we fully embrace our laid-back, casual schedule while we...
14 of the best math apps for kids of all ages: Back to School tech guide
Our Back to School tech guide continues with a bevy of the best math apps for kids of all ages. There are so many fantastic options these days — almost too many to count (ha) — so we’ve done the digging for you to uncover lots of the best math apps...
12 of the best reading apps for kids of all ages: Back-to-School tech guide
Our back to school 2016 guide continues with our picks for some of the best reading apps for kids. From preschoolers learning ABC basics and sight words, to older kids needing a synonym for obsequious (or uh, maybe that is the synonym?), we have you covered. Because...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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