by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Just when I thought it wasn’t possible for my kids to love Eric Carle even more, CMP fave Night & Day Studios turns their all-time fave book into a cool iPad counting app that they just can’t put down. The Very Hungry Caterpillar app features five...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
I currently have over 600 photos on my iPhone — and those are just the shots I love enough to keep. Like so many moms, I’ve stopped carrying my real camera because I snap the kids doing something totally cute on my phone, then send it off in an email or...
by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Admit it. When you read those Harold and The Purple Crayon books as a child, you longed to have a magical purple crayon just like his. Though the ideas I’d draw today (a clean house! a remodeled kitchen! a pair of Camper boots in size 10!) are much different...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Between our membership to the Boston Museum of Science and frequent viewings of Here Comes Science, my kids are growing up thinking that science is the coolest subject out there. It’s a far cry from how I felt about it in high school myself. And now we have...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps
iPad digital books are so common, my kids have become quite the critics. So I know that we had a hit on our hands when all three of my boys are fighting over one. We are definitely digging Brave Rooney which is absolute fun. Why? This story from Emmy-nominated kids TV...
by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps
When it comes to apps for the preschool and under crowd, I appreciate an app that doesn’t try to do too much. Kids don’t always need to earn gold coins, reach the next level or simultaneously master shapes, letters and numbers; sometimes it’s good to...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
We’re thrilled to welcome Ernest Martinez as our guest Dads Dig This blogger. He’s Creative Director of Radio Disney and lead on-air personality, known to both his colleagues and millions of listeners as “Ernie D.” You can catch him on-air each...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to do something new and exciting to an alphabet app, I discover this amazingly creative ABC app that has my little kids mesmerized–and learning too. The VivaKids’ ABC app for iPad features the creations of...
by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps
When it comes to children reading, I tend to be a bit old-school and old-fashioned. Give them a book to hold. Turn the pages. Smell the paper. Snap it closed when you’re finished. But with this shiny new iPad in my hands I’m having to rethink my...
