YouTube
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The best New Year’s countdown videos for kids that help you get them in bed before midnight!
Read Essay →: The best New Year’s countdown videos for kids that help you get them in bed before midnight!If you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve at home with kids, and you can’t wait until real midnight to get them…
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Rebel Girls x Hispanic Heritage Month: Your kids will love these short audio stories about amazing Hispanic women
Read Essay →: Rebel Girls x Hispanic Heritage Month: Your kids will love these short audio stories about amazing Hispanic womenAs if I haven’t raved about the Rebel Girls books and the Rebel Girls app enough, I am now touting…
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Headspace and Star Wars team up to teach mindfulness to kids.
Read Essay →: Headspace and Star Wars team up to teach mindfulness to kids.It’s no secret that we are huge fans of Star Wars here at Cool Mom Tech, so when we heard…
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What does Indigenous mean? This video is the perfect explainer for kids.
Read Essay →: What does Indigenous mean? This video is the perfect explainer for kids.On Indigenous People’s Day, a lot of kids may be asking us to explain what Indigenous means. It’s not the…
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5 fun YouTube Kids Halloween video playlists and channels to get your kids in the spirit!
Read Essay →: 5 fun YouTube Kids Halloween video playlists and channels to get your kids in the spirit!Here are some fun Halloween-themed playlists that your kids may enjoy on YouTube. Yes, YouTube. Now that YouTube Kids has…
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What parents need to know about YouTube’s new parental controls for tweens and teens
Read Essay →: What parents need to know about YouTube’s new parental controls for tweens and teensParents of tweens and teens, we’ve got good news! YouTube is launching new parental controls specifically for kids in this…
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8 fantastic educational resources for online learning, just in case you need them, parents.
Read Essay →: 8 fantastic educational resources for online learning, just in case you need them, parents.Last week, our school district cancelled school on Friday due to possible COVID-19 exposure. And this week on Tuesday, my…
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The top 10 Cool Mom Tech posts of 2019
Read Essay →: The top 10 Cool Mom Tech posts of 2019We’re going into our 10th year of Cool Mom Tech and our 2nd year of our Out Tech Your Kids…
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YouTube slated to launch new web platform for kids. But there’s a catch.
Read Essay →: YouTube slated to launch new web platform for kids. But there’s a catch.YouTube has come under major scrutiny in the last couple of years with inappropriate videos showing up on their popular…
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4 awesome YouTube alternatives for kids of all ages
Read Essay →: 4 awesome YouTube alternatives for kids of all agesWith all the not-so-great news coming out around YouTube recently — from their pedophilia problem to the horrific content spliced…
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Is YouTube Kids really safe? These videos will probably make you say “no.”
Read Essay →: Is YouTube Kids really safe? These videos will probably make you say “no.”It’s been a rough couple of weeks for YouTube, first with the news about their growing pedophile problem. And now,…
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What you need to know about YouTube’s pedophile problem
Read Essay →: What you need to know about YouTube’s pedophile problemOver the years, we’ve written about many issues that parents need to be aware of when it comes to the…
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Screen time and social media with kids: We might be doing it wrong, parents
Read Essay →: Screen time and social media with kids: We might be doing it wrong, parentsSince reading Anya Kamenetz’s interview with Jordan Shapiro on NPR, I’ve made some heavy shifts in how I’m approaching screen…
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This package thief versus glitter bomb video is the best thing ever.
Read Essay →: This package thief versus glitter bomb video is the best thing ever.I saw this YouTuber’s glitter bomb video going around Facebook yesterday and somehow avoided clicking on it until today. Well,…
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What you need to know about the new YouTube Kids parental controls
Read Essay →: What you need to know about the new YouTube Kids parental controlsWe’ve been fans of the YouTube Kids app, but admittedly when so many questionable videos were making it onto their…
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Are the video games your kids love safe for them? We can help.
Read Essay →: Are the video games your kids love safe for them? We can help.If you thought your kids tech-savvy as toddlers, it’s amazing to see how quickly they pick up video games when…
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YouTube Kids app gets better parental controls, finally.
Read Essay →: YouTube Kids app gets better parental controls, finally.We’ve been fans of the YouTube Kids app ever since it launched a few years ago, but as more and…
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Watch Levar Burton read Goodnight Moon to Neil Degrasse Tyson and swoon a little.
Read Essay →: Watch Levar Burton read Goodnight Moon to Neil Degrasse Tyson and swoon a little.We love Levar Burton. Did you ever listen to our podcast interview with him? He’s the best! We love Neil…
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9 of the best educational YouTube channels for teens and tweens to help keep brains sharp this summer
Read Essay →: 9 of the best educational YouTube channels for teens and tweens to help keep brains sharp this summerThere are so many cool educational channels on YouTube for tweens and teens, but I don’t think that a lot of…
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An 8-year old boy learned how to drive on YouTube, then drove his sister to McDonald’s. Um.
Read Essay →: An 8-year old boy learned how to drive on YouTube, then drove his sister to McDonald’s. Um.Just when we parents were worried about all those scary parody videos on YouTube, an eight-year-old boy watched a regular old driving…