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Attention space fans: The Vans x Space NASA collection is stellar!

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories

Our space-loving kids — and their space-loving parents (ahem) — are going want to do zero-G flips for the newly launched collection of Vans x Space sneakers in partnership with NASA, released in advance of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing next...

Web coolness: A Hello Kitty bullet train, the Sally Ride stamp, and avoiding getting banned from Amazon

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We are excited for this new stamp release of astronaut Sally Ride. President Trump can no longer block users from seeing his Twitter account. A lively interview with the...

Science Activities for Grade Schoolers (Part 1): The Cool Mom Tech Science Guide for Kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Science Guide for Kids

While kids are born to love science, every kid at every age has different abilities, inclinations, passions and skills. We started Cool Mom Tech in part to help parents foster that love of STEM in their kids, which is why we couldn’t be more thrilled to bring...

Web coolness: A free girls’ coding camp, the dangers of Facebook quizzes, and Mr. Rogers on Twitch.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Hooray for this girls’ summer coding camp, run by Karlie Kloss, which will sponsor 1000 girls in 50 camps across 25 cities. Are you aware of the real dangers...

Web coolness: The new kids FitBit, a Darth Vader tea kettle (what?), and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’ve got to get our hands on this Darth Vader tea kettle! Here are some shows about Stephen Hawking that can help kids understand how Hawking’s...

Web coolness: Violent video games don’t create violent kids, Best Buy spies for the FBI, and more.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. There’s so much talk about violent video games (again), but the research is in: science shows violent video games do not cause kids to be violent. Worth a...

Celebrate the Super Blue Blood Moon with this fun DIY moon calendar

by Kristen Chase | Websites Worth a Bookmark

We’re pretty excited about the Super Blue Blood Moon that should hopefully be visible in the wee hours of the morning tomorrow. Fingers crossed! To celebrate, we’re thinking our STEM-loving kids would love to make this DIY Moon Calendar that will show them...

Web coolness: The super blue blood moon, Zelda beer, Star Wars names, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Don’t forget that the super blue blood moon is coming January 31st! [Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash] Plus here are some meteor showers to look out for in...

Web coolness: A tasty Porg, a cell phone prison, and Alexa now in your nursery!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We love this porg rice ball for feeding our Last Jedi fans. (And check out these rice substitutes that kids will eat from our sister site). This school locks up...

Web coolness: Star Wars snowflakes, a super blue blood moon is coming, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Trying to avoid too much tech when school is unexpectedly out? Bookmark these screen-free snow day activities, like the Star Wars snowflakes from Anthony Herrera...

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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