by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
As a huge Colorforms fan as a kid (really, who wasn’t?) I squealed when I learned they had turned that clever little design and creativity toy into an iPad app. And what an app it is. The Colorforms Revolution App (wow, mighty big promise there) is developed...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids are at the age now when piggy banks are more than big rattles and loose change is no longer a choking hazard. Money is starting to take on new meaning–like when my son recently asked for new Bey Blades and I said he could save up for them with his own...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My girls are too young to remember the Girlhood Journeys series of historical fiction that was published years ago. But, given how much they’ve gobbled up the American Girl books, I knew this newly reissued series might be right up their alley. Plus, I...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion + Accessories
Ah, remember the days when you could just look at your wrist to know what time it is, and not have to fish your phone out of some buried pocket in your handbag? If you’re ready to re-embrace the wristwatch as fashion accessory-slash-convenient time-telling...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids, like many, fall into the “Quasimodo trance” as I call it when they are alone with my iPad and play mindless games. They sit, hunched over and when asked a question, simply respond with grunts and indiscernible noises. Not so when they engage with...
by Christina Refford | Tech Toys
We couldn’t get May the Fourth go by without a few of our very favorite recent Star Wars picks. (“May the Fourth be with you?” Get it?) After all, we have a whole entire category just for them, and even a Star Wars Pinterest Board, considering our...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited on a trip of a lifetime: To travel to Alaska to see the Aurora Borealis with a research team from GoPro, a family-run business that’s grown massively in just a few years. Before this trip, I wasn’t too familiar with...
by Christina Refford | Life and Home
If you’re stumped for a great, unique, LOL gift for that celeb-loving, social-media loving person in your life, we’ve found a gift that we can pretty much guarantee they don’t already have: A black-and-white poster created from the words of an...
by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Even though I managed to pull a strong B+ in my college Art Appreciation class, my art history is a little rusty all these years later. And Van Gogh? Beyond the usual “ear incident” and the iconic sunflowers and starry night, my wealth of knowledge begins...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
I’m a music lover. So it comes as no surprise that my kids dig their own crazy cool tunes. To be honest, I’ve shied away from kids’ headphones because of real fears about child hearing loss. In fact, years of Walkman, Discman, iPod listening has left...
