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Smartphone addiction: 5 things I learned when I put away my phone around my kids for a week

I’ve often wondered if I’ve had a bit of a smartphone addiction, seeing as how my iPhone often functions as my third arm. Or second brain. As a busy work-at-home-mom who runs her own business, my smartphone allows me freedoms that I wouldn’t...

Web Coolness: Minecraft Easter eggs, Periscope, and big Facebook changes. Again.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few tech links we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them too! Easter is just over a week away. Who’s making these Minecraft Easter eggs? We love all the new iPhone 6 ads featuring actual user photos, but these parody Apple ads are...

8 really smart tips for managing kids’ screen time that you can put into action right now

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

We are so excited about (and kind of in awe of) so many of the things that computers are doing for our kids, but the reality is, sometimes we need help managing their screen time. So many readers have written to us thanking us for tips like the Marble Jar system and...

The most helpful tech tips of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2014

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year

Over the course of this year, we’ve put together lots of helpful tech tips and tricks, so many of them from your own questions to us. (We love answering reader questions!) Here, 11 of our very favorite tech tips of the year (including lots just for parents or...

8 smart ways to use your iPhone Control Center to make life easier

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

If you’re like me, you may have only found your iPhone Control Center by accident. But as I’ve recently discovered, it’s amazingly handy and chock full of shortcuts that busy parents can use way beyond the basic functions. So I’ve put together8...

Web Coolness: A clever geeky birth announcement, hilarious TV awards, and a guilty pleasure Instagram feed.

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 as much as we did. A geeky birth announcement that’s so clever, it crashed a site. Research about kids and screen time: As you can imagine, too much is not a...

Web Coolness: Ice cream bribes, geeks having babies, and what’s the deal with ManServants?

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 as much as we did. Pregnant geeks are so creative. Check out these clever birth announcements for nerds and the people that love them. (Photo via megmss/Instagram)...

Here’s one safe way to curb a Candy Crush addiction.

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

Just this week my 5-year-old son busted me for using my iPhone at the breakfast table. It’s a no-no in our house, but I was reading something important. (It was a post ranking the Hot Guys of World Cup. See? Important.) Turns out, this whole incident would have...

Web Coolness: iPhone Photography Awards, how to post GIFs on Twitter, and great Friday laughs

by Kristen Chase | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. You won’t believe where this coffee machine can make coffee. Whoa. A brilliant way to manage your kids’ screen time that’s working for a lot of...

A brilliant way to manage screen time for your kids over the summer: The marble jar

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

With my kids officially out of school, I, along with lots other parents I’m sure, am gearing up for loads of free time. And that means trying to figure out how to manage screen time for the kids. Over the last few months, I’ve put together a very simple...

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