by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
As much as I’d love to take a trip to Europe with my kids and let them ride bikes through Holland to see the windmills and tulips, it’s just not in the budget this year. But I can still let them learn about Dutch culture through the beautifully illustrated...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
One of my kids’ favorite activities is to grab my phone and watch videos of themselves over and over again. And yep, I know tons of you can relate. So I can only imagine how excited they’d be to see animated version of themselves as the heros or heroines...
by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts, Gear + Hardware
If you’re still scratching your head about the perfect gift for a tech-savvy dad, we’ve got some last minute tech gifts for Father’s Day that we hope will do the trick. Things to ask that might help you out: Can I get it in a local store? Can it be...
by Cool Mom Team | Father's Day Gifts
We love our dads. We love our geeky dads. So of course we want to put together some of our favorite Father’s Day gifts for geeky dads that we’ve been seeing, loving, and bookmarking for ourselves. Great news: You don’t have to shop at ComicCon to...
by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
We are so excited about the range of science and technology toys that are being created for our kids these days. I love that my kids are using their minds while they play, learning the whole time without realizing it, and the newest player hoping to make it into this...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys
We definitely geek out over Star Wars Day each year with lots of fun picks in honor of May the Fourth..as in, May the Fourth be with you. (If you don’t get it by now, we’ll have another post up for you shortly.) Well we’re not the only ones,...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
We’ve used the cool virtual map Google Earth to get a bird’s eye view of our house, Disney World, and my mother’s tiny hometown in Europe. And now there is a really neat history book for kids, History of the World with Google Earth, that puts the...
by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps
If your kid is an avid reader—as in, he finishes his library books before he even gets them home from school—you may want to check out the Epic app, a new ebook subscription for kids in one handy app that that offers all-you-can-read selections for a low monthly fee....
by Delilah S. Dawson | Gear + Hardware
Riddle me this, Miss Drew: what looks like a book and feels like a book but is actually thousands of books? Oh… you already solved it by reading the title. Well, you’ll never guess how pretty this handmade e-Reader cover is on the inside. I love real...