by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Listening to compelling audio books has been my #1 way to prevent backseat squabbles between the kids as we do everything from a six-hour drive to Maine, to a 15-minute jaunt to gymnastics practice. And one of the best ways to get our hands on a seemingly limitless...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
It’s back to school time as you may have heard (ha) so over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be serving up a few mini-guides to help get you ready, keep you organized, and get your kids excited. Today’s picks: educational apps for the younger kids in...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Whenever I take back my iPhone from my kids’ sticky hands, I find loads of goofy pictures they’ve taken. Because if there is one thing my kids love about my iPhone, beyond playing games, it’s being able to snap photos of everything they see. So,...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
Back to school time for parents means back to school tech. After all, it is time to get back into the organization zone. (Unless you’re one of those rare people who stays super organized all the time. In which case…well, don’t rub it in.) Here, a few...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
With the back to school season here (surely you’ve heard by now), over the next couple weeks we’ll be putting together these mini guides on back to school tech to help you out with a few must-haves, helpful apps, and cool ideas. Starting with laptop...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Who invented the alphabet? is my son’s latest impossible-to-answer question. I’ve tried to placate him with some smart talk, but the creators of the much loved ebook The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore have come up with a much more inventive and...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids have used their fingers and toes to help them understand numbers and counting from the days of 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed through basic addition. And now there is a new app that uses technology to help reinforce these concepts with your iPad though,...
by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love
This past week, I was excited to have a chance to Skype chat with a teacher in Maine about the amazing things she’s doing in her classroom thanks to technology. If you take a look at the Skype Education page, you’ll be blown away by the number of...
by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My subpar geography skills are one of my husband’s favorite things to tease me about. Could I fill in that blank map of the 50 states we had to do in 6th grade? Note to self: 2013 resolution! But I still find our planet completely fascinating and get caught up...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
When we go on long car rides, I like to pack a bag of activities of things that keep the kids occupied for as long as possible before they resort to the eventual “are we therrrrrre yet?” One of the things I always throw in is our set of Brain Quest...