by Molly | Websites We Love
The holiday list-making has hit full-force in this house. Yesterday my nine year-old handed me a list not only for the upcoming holidays but a second prioritized list for her birthday. My 7 year-old, who I insanely showed the copy button on our...
by Jeana | Websites We Love
When I was in junior high, I remember a phase when all I wanted to do was create these photo montages, where I would take a big ‘ol piece of posterboard and glue pictures of me and my friends onto them. Where I would get really fancy is when I’d cut out...
by Molly | Websites We Love
My nine year old daughter has a lot to say about everything. She likes to let her opinions be known about what books she’s willing to read, what foods she’ll eat, what toys she’ll play with. Now, with today’s release of a very cool new website...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
We know the one thing integral to keeping your sanity during back to school time is organization. Whether you volunteered to be the classroom mom and need to help wrangling 26 families or you’re just trying to keep track of your own, we’ve rounded up 9 of...
by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups
Have you ever noticed how… absorbent the web can be? You just open Twitter or Pinterest for a few seconds, and suddenly information and interesting things are just gushing everywhere. Before you have one of those not-so-fresh, overloaded days, check out our...
by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love
Our readers are often the source of the coolest finds, like this one — a fantastic little self-funded website that allows young children to create, imagine, and play without the help of a single TV character. Click around the whimsical world of Poisson Rouge and...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
If I want my kids to celebrate Earth Day every day, it helps if they understand the little issues that all add up to make big changes. In other words: Why I screech when they forget to recycle a piece of paper. (I admit it. I screech.) That’s why I applaud PBS...
by Jeana | Websites We Love
We have all been riveted by the aftermath of the Japan earthquake and tsunami, and struggled with how to discuss it with our children. And yet, from the greatest of adversity, also comes the promise of hope. And there is nothing more touching than when that hope is...
by Christina Refford | Websites We Love
Though I’ve been homeschooling for five years, make no mistake: I am no great educator. I’m just good at finding help for subjects in which I’m a little rusty, like…all of them. Hey, it’s been a long time since I sat behind a classroom...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Entertainment
There was once a magical time. A time when children waited in breathless anticipation for their favorite Christmas Special to play on TV. There was no DVR or Video On Demand; no rewinding or fast-forwarding; no YouTube; no bathroom breaks. You had only one shot to...
