The iPhone X is here, along with more new Apple gadgets that make us want to sell our children. (Kidding. Mostly).

by Kristen Chase | Gear + Hardware

Ah, September. It’s the time of year when the weather changes, the kids go back to school, and Apple launches its new devices that make us all drool and try to figure out which child we can sell to afford one. Sorry, Johnny, you’ve left your underwear on...

How to make cool social media stickers from your own selfies

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

If you’re on Instagram Stories, Snapchat, and now Facebook Story, you know that stickers are THE hottest thing right now. All caps required. Well, we found a fun new free app for you to try that let’s you turn your selfies into stickers. Yaaaaasss! Sticky...

6 things that happened when I banned screen time in my home for two months

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

If you’re like me, then you do your best to manage screen time using myriad methods. In our house, I’ve done The Marble Jar to read for screens, and pretty much everything in between. And still, there are tantrums and arguments when it’s time to get...

Addicted to your iPhone? Try this one easy trick to seriously curb your screen time.

by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks

I’ve been seeing a lot of research lately that seems to find a correlation between how much time we spend on our phones and our kids’ behavior. Specifically, their bad behavior. The constant distraction of pings and alerts from my phone that takes my...

The top-rated gaming headsets for teens in price ranges to suit every allowance

by Kate Etue | Games + Gaming

Forget Snapchat, Facebook, or even Instagram. Teens these days are often connecting with friends online by gaming together on their Xboxes and I find the key to good communication for them is a great gaming headset for teens. So my almost-teen son has spent a ton of...

Tech trick: How to hide app purchases so your kids can’t download through Family Sharing.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

I’m grateful to my daughter who (much to the chagrin of tweens and teens everywhere, I’m sure) tipped me off to a trick I wasn’t aware of: Kids can easily download new apps to their devices without your knowledge, if you have Apple Family Sharing in...

9 creative kid portrait ideas that make genius Father’s Day gifts. Just add a frame!

by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts, Tips and Tricks

If you missed the boat on photo gifts for Father’s Day or Mother’s Day…no, wait! You didn’t! We all live in the land of the smartphone cam, after all, and if you’ve got a camera  — especially that dandy iPhone 7S — and a place...

New study about kids’ online behavior might surprise you, parents. And not in a good way.

by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety

A recent survey of more than 1600 U.K. kids revealed some fascinating results when it comes to kids’ online behavior, leading the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to make some pretty strong recommendations for parents....

Gadget guy, photographer, music lover or podcast buff, we’ve got Father’s Day tech gifts for every kind of dad

by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts, Gear + Hardware

We love excuses to shop for cool new tech, and we love excuses to shop for the cool dads in our lives. Put them together…and we’ve got some really creative, fun ideas for cool tech gifts for Father’s Day. Whether he’s a traveler, an adventurer,...

Harvard rescinds 10 offers to students posting offensive Facebook memes.

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

For those of you with teens applying to college, if you’re wondering whether college admissions officers check student social media accounts, the definitive answer is “yes.” This is clearly evidenced by this week’s incident in which Harvard...