Introducing young kids to the civil rights movement with a Rosa Parks app

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps

My six-year-old came home this week asking about Rosa Parks, impressed with what she knew of her story and, very shocked by it. I feel so fortunate thats she’s growing up in such a diverse community, that she couldn’t even comprehend a world where her best...

Endless Reader app: Even more endless love for one of our favorite apps

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

We’re huge fans of the Endless Alphabet app around here. I mean, it was created by the same team of people who made Sesame Street’s The Monster at the End of this Book, one of my childhood favorites. So I’m excited they’ve launched the Endless...

An app to help a big sibling get ready for a new baby. Or at least a virtual one.

by Jeana | Best Apps

With a new baby in the house, both of my older kids are so surprisingly sweet when it comes to caring for her, wanting to pick her up, even changing diapers. It’s amazing how nurturing young kids can be, whether caring for a real baby, a stuffed animal, or in...

Foreign language apps for kids get as beautiful (and funny) as we’ve seen with Count the Animals

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Studies (and real life experience) show that kids learn foreign languages so much easier than adults do, which is why there are starting to be so many great foreign language apps for kids. I think it has something about their brains being more plastic. Or maybe...

The 10 best apps for kids: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013

by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year

We see a lot of apps for kids here at Cool Mom Tech. A lot. Which means when we feature an app on our site, we really love it. Great for you, but tough when we’re trying to narrow down our favorite kids’ apps for 2013. Here, the cream of the crop when it...

3 completely silly, non-educational, totally fun apps that let kids be kids on their holiday break

by Pilar | Best Apps

To us, the holidays are a time for throwing the rules out the window a bit. We eat too many cookies, the kids stay up too late, and if their typical screen time doubles (or triples) while we all enjoy a little down time, so be it. So here are 3 of the silliest,...

The Little Scholar Tablet: a smart educational option for young kids

by Kate Etue | Uncategorized

Tablets are at the top of so many kids’ wish lists this Christmas, even for the littlest ones in our homes. For the preschool set who is just starting to learn about technology, the intuitive design of touch-directed devices are amazing. They’re able to...

Our must-have apps for families to load up on that new iPad (or even that hand-me-down).

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

With the iPad Air as one of our top tech gifts of the year, if you’ve got one coming your way–or hey, even an iPad 2, iPhone 5S or iPod–we wanted to help you out with some of our very favorite must-have apps to get you started. Here are 8 of the...

5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins this week

by Cool Mom Team | Gear + Hardware, Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 popular pins you might have missed this week. We’ve got our eye on this gorgeous smartphone wristlet from one of our favorite designers. What a cool little stocking stuffer you can make from...

A story app for kids that will totally make you think Flight of the Conchords

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Remember playing the telephone game when we were kids? That one where you’d sit in a circle and whisper a phrase all the way around, and by the end it was nothing like the original secret? Well, now that game has had a makeover, hit the iPad, got an extra shot...