by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you do a quick Google of “kids and screen time,” you’ll find a myriad articles telling you how much they’ve had this past year and all the things it is doing to them, as if we haven’t been with our children almost 24 hours a day and know exactly what is going on?...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
This is a sponsored message on behalf of Google For most parents, balancing screen time has always been a challenge. But over this last year, the struggle became even more real, with three in five parents allowing an increase in time spent on gadgets. And as Google...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
Over the last month, we’ve been getting bombarded with all sorts of posts about kids and screen time, from articles telling us that we’ve got a big problem on our hands to ways to feel okay about all the screen time. If you’re like me, it feels like...
by Caroline Siegrist | Kids
My son’s just at the age he can start listening to stories on his own, but I’m not in a hurry to hand over my iPhone to keep him entertained. So I was intrigued to read about Toniebox, a cool screen-free content box for little kids. The Toniebox works with...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
With resolutions and goals for 2020 in mind, we know that a lot parents are thinking about technology and screen time. Wrangling screen time is a huge concern for many of you (and us), as well as the members of our Out Tech Your Kids Facebook Group. Let’s just...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
Raising kids in a digital age presents all sorts of parenting challenges. That’s one of the many reasons we started Cool Mom Tech, along with our new Out Tech Your Kids Facebook Group (OTYK). And we talk about it a lot on our Spawned Parenting Podcast. While it can be...
by Liz Gumbinner | Social Media, Gear + Hardware
This weekend, inspired by the Cool Mom Picks book club video chat about How to Break Up with Your Phone, I decided to try one of author Catherine Price’s tips to help me be more mindful about my screen time, and more aware of how much I pick up my phone. She...
by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety
If you tend to stick to hard and fast time-limited screen time rules with your preschooler, it might actually be a good thing. According to a recent study at the University of Alberta, kids by the age of 5 who spent two hours or more looking at a screen each day were...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you haven’t updated to the new iOS 12.2, it’s worth it just to get the new Screen Time app feature that allows you to customize your child’s downtime by the day. It’s pretty easy to do once you have your phone running on the new iOS....
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
You’ve probably already figured out how to use the Screen Time app on iPhone to help manage your child’s screen time. Screen Time makes it easy to block and set limits on categories of apps, specific apps during Downtime, or just screen time overall, but...
