by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
During these long, unscheduled, fun-in-the-sun summer months, I’ve been on the lookout for some smart apps that keep my kids’ brains thinking and not turning into soft serve. That’s a big reason why I am so excited about this math app which we all...
by Cool Mom Team | Social Media
I recently read some astounding facts about the amount of content on the web. Each day, something like 60,000 new websites are created and 1.5 billion items are uploaded to Facebook alone. Yikes! How to sort through it all? Well for you iPad readers, there’s a...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps
When my kids were little, I couldn’t wait to take them to see the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Unfortunately, they didn’t want to stay up that late, hated the booms and generally made it hard to relax and say my required “oooos” and...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
I have my iPhone 4 to thank for the piles of home videos I’ve been collecting since upgrading last year, but I’ve yet to figure out exactly what to do with them all. Since I don’t really want to upload every cute spaghetti on the head moment to...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Our first child was born perfect. Ten fingers, ten toes. Still, we had to wait a couple of years to see if she had inherited one very important trait. When she picked up her first lightsaber at age nineteen months, we knew. We had a nerdy baby. And there was much...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps
As soon as I could turn my back on my kids with the safety scissors, I knew it was only a matter of time before they decided to give themselves (or each other) a trim. A far better way to scratch their itch to play hairdresser, comes in a handy go-anywhere app where...
by Cool Mom Team | Fitness + Health
About five months after having my third child, I had to wear a strapless bridesmaid’s dress to my sister-in-law’s wedding. With more than 40 pounds of my baby weight still to lose, I decided that was enough motivation to whip myself into shape. I lost...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
This holiday season, my family enjoyed the spoils from my experimentation with the very cool Martha Stewart Makes Cookies iPad app, so you can imagine how excited they were when I decided to give her new smoothies app a try, just in time for fresh fruit season. Not...
