This fun, safe new app from KinToons lets your kid play DJ….with nursery rhymes!
This is a sponsored message from KinToons Music! Singing! A flying turtle with a jet pack! An ice cream-eating duck! It all comes together in the wonderful new KinToons Nursery Rhyme DJ app, a fun, colorful, and totally safe environment for nursery rhyme-loving kids....
23 cool digital subscription gifts for people who don’t want more stuff | Holiday Tech Guide 2017
Our next Holiday Tech Guide is here, inspired by our friend Lindsay Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of CNET, who revealed on her recent CBS This Morning appearance that digital subscriptions are hot for the holidays this year. And we couldn’t agree more. We know...
Toca Life: Office – Our kids’ new favorite app that lets them be the grown-ups. For once.
We’re longtime fans of Toca Boca around here, and their newest app, Toca Life: Office does not disappoint. Because if there’s one thing my kids seem to want more than anything, it’s to be a grownup. Related: Toca Boo: A fun Halloween app for kids The...
18 of the best math apps for kids, from preschool to high school | Back to School Tech 2017
With the new school year upon us, it’s always good to have a list of some truly awesome math apps in our back pockets (or really, on our tablets and phones) to help sharpen our kids’ numbers skills. So up next in our 2017 back to school tech guide,...
14 of the best math apps for kids of all ages: Back to School tech guide
Our Back to School tech guide continues with a bevy of the best math apps for kids of all ages. There are so many fantastic options these days — almost too many to count (ha) — so we’ve done the digging for you to uncover lots of the best math apps...
12 of the best reading apps for kids of all ages: Back-to-School tech guide
Our back to school 2016 guide continues with our picks for some of the best reading apps for kids. From preschoolers learning ABC basics and sight words, to older kids needing a synonym for obsequious (or uh, maybe that is the synonym?), we have you covered. Because...
15 of the best science apps for preschoolers through teens: Back-to-School tech guide
We parents know that science is everywhere and why it’s so important. So we always love tracking down some of the best science apps for kids each year, to show kids how fun science can be, and how it’s a part of pretty much everything they already do and...
PBS Kids series will now stream exclusively on Amazon: One more benefit of Prime membership.
Being a total Prime junkie who likes getting the most out of my membership (hello, free shipping + Transparent!) I was excited to learn that now Prime members will get exclusive access to free streaming PBS Kids series. Then I realized oh shoot, my kids have outgrown...
Sound Sleeper white-noise app for parents: Our cool free app of the week
If there is one gift I could give to all new parents, it would be the ability to make their baby fall right asleep on command. But since my super powers were never really strong in that area, I’ll have to settle with telling you about a cool free app that might...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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