by Nicole Blades | Websites We Love
Yes, we went with the slightly sanitized version on the name, because this is a family show here. But that doesn’t take away from how much we love the hilarious, crazy-popular FB page turned full-fledged blog, I F’ing Love Science, also known as...
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
One thing that’s become abundantly clear to me after a year of following Black Lives Matter tweets and listening more closely to what people of color have to say about their own heroes and history without media spin, is that a lot of us have only grasped a very...
by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year
Over the course of the year on Cool Mom Tech, we’ve put together so many helpful tech tips and tricks, many of which are answers to reader questions we get via email, over Twitter, on Facebook, and heck, even from our friends and family in person! So we’ve...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
As we watched the events in Paris unfold on the news last night, we were shocked and horrified, and immediately wondering what we could do. We’re feeling especially thankful for technology and social media today, which has made us feel a little less helpless in...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
It seems the whole National Do Not Call Registry isn’t always effective. Legit marketers have a lot of loopholes; charities, pollsters, political fundraisers and others are exempt; and then there are those shady marketers who simply don’t care. I know,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
I tend to browse lots of places looking for cool fonts that I may never use. (When it comes to typefaces I’m more of a collector than a designer; kind of like having lots of books at home you haven’t yet opened. But I digress.) I’ve just stumbled...
by Kristen Chase | Websites We Love
Every year when our kids ask us about 9/11, we turn to BrainPop to help us tackle this challenging topic. This year, we’re adding another helpful resource that we discovered on the 9/11 Memorial website that we think you’ll want to check out. You’ll...
by Liz Gumbinner | Causes and Giving Back
Leave it to NPR and Internet technology to create something as simple and wonderful as Playgrounds for Everyone, a community edited guide helping kids who require handicapped-accessible facilities find them easily. Turns out there actually is no official database like...
by Kate Etue | Websites We Love
Some of our kids are really picky when it comes to books — not too long, not too short, with just the right plot points and character types. Then there are the ones who go through books so quickly that we can barely keep up with suggestions for what they...