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6 unexpected rom-coms on Netflix that you can watch with the family on Valentine’s Day

What you do after the kids are in bed on Valentine’s Day — that’s your business. What you do while the kids are still up and wanting to hang out with you though? Well, we can help with that. As the resident cinephile, I’ve put together some...

Science Activities for Kindergarteners: The Guide to Science for Kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Science Guide for Kids

While kids are born to love science, every kid at every age has different abilities, inclinations, passions and skills. We started Cool Mom Tech in part to help parents foster that love of STEM in their kids, which is why we couldn’t be more thrilled to bring...

Science Activities for Tweens: The Cool Mom Tech Science Guide for Kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Science Guide for Kids

Science Activities for Grade Schoolers (Part 2): The Cool Mom Tech Science Guide for Kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Science Guide for Kids

Science Activities for Grade Schoolers (Part 1): The Cool Mom Tech Science Guide for Kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Science Guide for Kids

Who was Stephen Hawking? These terrific shows can help.

by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment

With so many of us mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking, and celebrating his many contributions to the world of science, it leaves a lot of our kids asking who he was, what he did, and what he believed — and some of us adults are interested in learning more,...

Why the new Local app could make you delete Yelp for good.

by Liz Gumbinner | Shopping Apps, Travel Apps

I admit, Yelp drives me crazy for a number of reasons. And now, just in time for the holiday shopping and travel, comes a truly viable app alternative. Let’s say you live in Silverlake, you like comedy shows and galleries, and four of your friends have recently...

Make a foster kid’s holiday dreams come true with Daymaker

by Kate Etue | Causes and General Do-Gooding

We love finding wonderful ways that we can give back and help kids who need it most, especially during the holiday season, which is why we were happy to discover Daymaker. By connecting foster children with people like us via their gift-giving website, they’re...

7 fun STEM activities for the whole family. Because we all need STEM, not just the kids.

by Cool Mom Staff | Tech Toys and Random Fun

It’s fantastic to see the popularity of STEM over the last couple of years, with so many options that are truly inspiring kids to pursue their geeky passions. But we parents know that one of the best ways to get excited about something is to be excited about it...

Awesome, easy emoji activities and gear you need right now, because The Emoji Movie!

by Kate Etue | Entertainment

Are your kids as smiling-face-with-hands excited to see The Emoji Movie as ours are? We’ve already bought our tickets for opening day tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean we have to wait to start celebrating our love for everything emoji, right? While...

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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