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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 good...

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) Want...

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 us....

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...

Web Coolness: Limiting screen time for kids, iOS8 news for parents, and more

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. What a fun, simple DIY tech photo project. This is such a sweet letter from a mom to her son on why she limits screen time. Here’s how to text...

Tech talk with kids: The new sex talk

by Cool Mom Staff | Internet Safety

If you hadn’t already figure it out, we here at Cool Mom Tech are huge advocates of talking to your kids about technology early and often, and that’s exactly what our Editor Kristen told the Christian Science Monitor for their cover story on Parenting the...

6 smart tips for managing your kids’ screen time

by Jeana | Tips and Tricks

With a second grader in the house who is increasingly reliant on the computer for homework and projects, I’m finding myself becoming much more vigilant about what he’s doing when online, and researching ways to be better about monitoring screen and game...

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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