by Christina Refford | Best Apps
With two tweens, I’m increasingly aware of all the trouble they might get into using social media like Instagram, Facebook, and especially Snapchat. A.K.A. “the sexting app”–eep! Even if it is just an accidental lapse in judgment, it takes only...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I had moved three times by the time I was eight, so I totally understand how it feels to be a strange kid in a strange land, a topic that is explored in a lovely new app for both iOS and Android users. Even kids like my own who have never had to be “the new...
by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps
If you’ve got an alphabet-hungry kid and are craving some awesome ABC apps for your iPad, I understand completely. When my son little, he was so obsessed with the alphabet that he saw letters in everything: a scotch tape dispenser was a G, a pancake needed to...
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 Cool Mom Team | Travel
I have a confession: I have a habit “shopping” for weather reports–I tend to click around the various networks and web channels until I find the one I like. No rain, high of 72? I’ll take that one! But now there’s a device that can keep...
by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps
I review a lot of apps for kids and thus, am inundated with spinning, whirling, jumping, and shrieking characters/animals/aliens on my iPad. But once in a while, an app comes along that makes me breathe a sigh of “well, finally.” Such is the case with a...
