by Christina Refford | Life and Home
Need a special gift for that little gamer in your life? Then check out some must-see room decor that will earn you high scores for sure. Harmonden’s “pixel” crochet pieces make great throw rugs or bright wall hangings for the kid obsessed with Super...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Over the weekend, my two older kids plunged head first into the world of Minecraft, and save the couple of desperate tweets and Facebook posts asking for help, I was pretty much on my own getting them started. If you’ve got a kid who wants to play Minecraft,...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Random Coolness
Ah, the 1980s. Video games like Donkey Kong were new and exciting… and dominated by dudes. The only women around were damsels in distress, waiting to be saved. That is, until one little girl’s dad got involved. Three-year-old Ellis had played as Princess...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Perhaps at some point, you will be sitting around, wondering what the heck you get for the guy who has everything, including all three major gaming systems, two drawers full of controllers, and an ancient copy of Madden Football for Amiga that he just can’t part...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
When my second grader asked me to join her to play a new video game that Daddy had downloaded for PS3, I figured I’d humor her for a few minutes. Little did I know that two hours later I would still be playing–and wrestling to pull myself away. Welcome to...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
When my kids realized they could hand out diamonds to their friends for Valentine’s Day, they flipped. And they are so obsessed with Minecraft that even handing a ready-to-explode Creeper card sounds perfectly logical. If this all makes sense to you, you must...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
When you hand your precious iPhone or iPad over to someone who still eats Play-Doh, it’s a fair bet that he may delete your favorite game or take 100 photos by accident–unless you give him something he can play with on his own. We all know about apps...
by Jeana | Websites We Love
If you haven’t already heard, Disney Infinity is launching this summer. No, it’s not the next installment of Toy Story (to infinity and beyond!), but rather a completely new gaming platform that will use cool Disney figurines to launch their digital...
by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups
If you’re obsessed with Pinterest as we are, follow us, and make sure to check out our favorite techie pins from this week! 1. Quite possibly our favorite drawing app for kids. Even better, it’s free! 2. A bookworm’s dream gadget3. If you...
by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year
This was probably one of the biggest years for kids’ gadgets, but we definitely had our top favorites, and ones that we’d want in our own kids’ hands. Kristen Nabi 2 With so many kids’ tablets on the markets, I’m going to have to...
