by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Kids, Tips and Tricks
As we mentioned on Cool Mom Picks, our team is off on a little break this week. Don’t we all need one these days? (The answer is yes. Yes we do.) But hey, before we took off, we wanted to put together some of our very favorite summer tech posts — which...
by Caroline Siegrist | Best Apps
Like a lot of elder millennials, I resisted TikTok for a while. After all, why would I want to watch videos of toddlers spilling drinks when I can just look across my kitchen table? Sorry, Yeet Baby. But the more I delved into it, the more I realized TikTok is...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Gear + Hardware, Tips and Tricks
Over the past year, I have been so grateful for the sleep stories on Calm and some of the Apple Music playlists to help me fall asleep. The one issue: I was sometimes waking up in the middle of the night, my AirPods still in my ears…my music still playing. Then,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
This week in our Out Tech Your Kids Facebook group, we were asked how to prevent a Facebook hack, and specifically, if were any security measures to take that might help. And yes, yes there are! Here, a few really simple tips to help prevent a Facebook hack. They can...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Life and Home
Who else is thinking about gardening this spring? Along with our own Liz and Kristen who recently hosted the We Time Project and took a food gardening course (yay!), it seems like everyone is ready to put down the sourdough starter and get their hands really dirty....
by Cool Mom Staff | Out-Tech Your Kids podcast
We’ve been having some lively discussions over in the Out Tech Your Kids Facebook group about lots of topics this past week, from screen time to video gaming, but the one we decided to chat about this week was our favorite apps, inspired by this post from Liz...
by Caroline Siegrist | Best Apps
Like a lot of you, I’m looking to get a tighter rein on my budget in 2021. First up: subscriptions. If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot of them, some of which I didn’t even know I still had. Thankfully, there are apps that can help you manage...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Every year I swear, this is the year I get organized! This is the year I find the best ever to-do list app and put everything on it and finally check things off my list instead of losing them forever and make more time for the things I love and life will be grand....
by Caroline Siegrist | Best Apps, Fitness + Health
Let’s talk about self-care apps! While I took a no-holds-bar approach at the very beginning of quarantine (It’s the end of the world! Why not scroll all day?), I’m realizing that might not be the most sustainable solution for a pandemic that shows no...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
When our state was put under a stay-at-home order back in the middle of March, 2020, I told my 11-year old that she should start writing in her journal every day because this was going to be a time in history that her kids and their kids after them would be hearing...
