by Cool Mom Staff | Computers
With my 12-year old son heading to middle school next year, I’ve got the the typical parental worries, which these days includes trying to figure out the best first laptop to purchase for him. Yes, my baby is all grown up and needs his own computer. That’s...
by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Here are all the new emoji coming to iOS 10. Love the diverse families! Speaking of emoji, did you see the big change to one emoji? Shopping for back to school? Here...
by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups
Here are some of our favorite tech links we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them as much as we did. We’re a little obsessed with this emoji keyboard cover. Hit the shift key–you type Emojis! Love that Apple is donating 40 million to...
by Julie | Games + Gaming
As you can see just from browsing our site, Minecraft and STEM toys rank high on our list of the coolest stuff for kids that’s both fun and educational. So when we heard about Piper, which brings together coding, engineering, and Minecraft all in one cool...
by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun
I’m not alone in wanting my kids to learn the basics of coding and am thankful there are so many ways to get them interested in the subject. We’ve covered cool clubs and camps, lots of fun games, as well as apps and websites like ScratchJr and Hopscotch....
by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys and Random Fun
Much to my children’s delight, my new Macbook meant transferring ownership of the old one. As in the embarrassing old Macbook I’ve shared here before, the one with missing letters galore. Seeing as how they have yet to master the art of touch typing, we...
by Pilar | Tech Toys and Random Fun
We all know STEM is a big deal in schools these days. The combination of science, technology, engineering and math is what kids are living on a daily basis, so a 10-year-old entrepreneur named Ethan Saadia wants to encourage even more kids to really get into computer...