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Orb music player is music to your ears

Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time and money adding music to my digital collection, and making playlists for every event imaginable. With warmer weather just around the corner, I’d like to think that my “BBQ Music,” “Summer...

Cisco Umi: Bringing families together like never ever before

by Cool Mom Staff | Video

Our closest family is over 2000 miles away. This means other than a few annual visits, our together time is relegated to phone calls and computer conferencing, both of which can be tough with four squirmy kids under six like I have. But recently, Cisco offered to...

The coolest way to teach kids the value of a dollar

by Christina Refford | Educational Apps For Kids

Those of you who are long-time readers of our sister site, Cool Mom Picks, may have heard us rave about Readeez DVDs, which introduce kids to phonics, reading and good music in a way that is fun, playful and effective. Now they have a new downloadable series focusing...

Gardening for dummies

by Cool Mom Staff | Around the House

For those of you who want a little more high-tech gardening in your life (and really, who doesn’t?), we’ve been has been a fan of the AeroGarden for years. It’s a boon for those of us apartment dwellers with no outdoor space of our own, sniff, but...

Web Coolness: Boy Scouts going techie, kindergartens going iPad, and Android users going crazy

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some things we’ve liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. Boy Scouts introduces a Robotics Merit Badge Next up: one for the Girls Scouts too (we hope). Interesting piece in Time on how technology influences to new American family....

CinemaSeat turns your iPad into your car’s DVD player

by Cool Mom Staff | Travel Essentials

I am always prepared when embarking on a road trip with my kids–and by road trip, I mean anything longer than an hour. That’s pretty much their threshold for patience before the “when are we gonna be thereeeeeeeeeee?” whines set in. Since our...

Leapfrog Tag Maps help kids make sense of a great big world

by Cool Mom Staff | Educational Apps For Kids

There’s a lot going on in the world these days. Kids are hearing rumblings about so many countries, many of which are new to them. Depending on their ages, there are some good tools to help initiate conversations about friends and foes overseas, like the clever...

Piquing our Geek: evoz baby monitors for plugged-in parents

by Jeana | Baby Tech, Family Safety Apps

I can’t believe my kids are old enough for me to say things like, “Well…we didn’t have that when my kid was a baby,” but a mere six years later and I’m already waxing nostalgia about how much different it was before all the advances...

Internet safety for kids from CYBERsitter

by Jeana | Internet Safety

I’m not quite ready to have all those internet safety for kids discussions. I’m already preparing myself for the moment when my oldest asks if he can set up a Facebook account. Granted, he doesn’t even know what Facebook is, and he’s in...

Smart Starterz – Language learning in the womb. Yes, the womb.

by Cool Mom Staff | Meta

Having never learned a foreign language myself, I’m determined to make sure my kids are fluent in something other than “whine.” Too bad that doesn’t count towards college credit. So in my search for cool language programs for kids, I was...

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