Hickory Dickory Dock, your kids will love this clock

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I can’t be the only person who didn’t know there are twelve verses to the Hickory Dickory Dock rhyme– I never got any further than one, and honestly am not sure I’d ever want to keep the song going 11 more times. But, as an app, I’m...

Sprout pregnancy app gives you the play-by-play, day-by-day

by Jeana | Best Apps

It’s amazing to me how much information is available for pregnant women now, as opposed to when I was with child more than seven years ago. Yes, we had the Internet back then (it wasn’t that long ago), but honestly, my go-to resource was my trusty What to...

Don’t Let the Pigeon Run this App: The original Angry Bird goes digital

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps

You might be thinking, geez, what took him so long? when you first get wind of Mo Willems’ delightful new interactive ebook, Don’t Let the Pigeon Run this App. But after hearing him preempt that very question at a recent press lunch, I totally understand...

3 cool, ghoulish Halloween apps for kids

by Molly | Best Apps

With Halloween just around the corner (how did that happen?!), we’ve been on the lookout for a few cool apps that will keep our kids entertained while we’re busy gluing sequins on mermaid costumes and eyebrows on Angry Birds. Let me just say–there...

Zuzee lets tweens preserve their BFFs 4ever

by Jeana | Websites We Love

When I was in junior high, I remember a phase when all I wanted to do was create these photo montages, where I would take a big ‘ol piece of posterboard and glue pictures of me and my friends onto them. Where I would get really fancy is when I’d cut out...

Toca Boca has two more reasons I’ll never get my hands on my iPad again

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

I’ve professed my love for the creative and entertaining apps by Sweden’s Toca Boca before, and I know I’m not alone in my admiration if our very vocal Facebook fans are any indication. My own kids already have six Toca Boca apps to give them a...

Turn every kid into the superhero they are with Smilebox

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

I currently have over 600 photos on my iPhone — and those are just the shots I love enough to keep. Like so many moms, I’ve stopped carrying my real camera because I snap the kids doing something totally cute on my phone, then send it off in an email or...

Bam! Wham! Pow! Goes the cell phone case.

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

I do my best to try to avoid covering my kids and well, myself, in licensed characters as much as possible, but even I have to admit that these vintage cell phone cases are pretty darn cool. The PDP line of Collector’s Edition Marvel iPhone cases are just...

Revisiting Harold on the iPad, purple crayon optional.

by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Admit it. When you read those Harold and The Purple Crayon books as a child, you longed to have a magical purple crayon just like his. Though the ideas I’d draw today (a clean house! a remodeled kitchen! a pair of Camper boots in size 10!) are much different...

An educational app that may turn on your kids’ love for science

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Between our membership to the Boston Museum of Science and frequent viewings of Here Comes Science, my kids are growing up thinking that science is the coolest subject out there. It’s a far cry from how I felt about it in high school myself. And now we have...