Safe ways for kids to watch videos: Reader Q+A

by Julie | Tips and Tricks

Hi Cool Mom Tech! A few months back you recommended an app where parents could save or store specific videos. This was to ensure kids using iPads wouldn’t stumble onto questionable material on YouTube. I feel like “Tube” was the last part of the app...

5 of our favorite techie Pinterest pins this week: Back to school edition

by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out our five most popular pins from this week. 1. Keep these awesome educational channels for kids on YouTube bookmarked to help your kids get ready for back to school. 2. Here’s a simple, free way to keep...

12 of the funniest YouTube videos for kids

by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment, Kids, Websites We Love

If you’re looking for something to keep the kids laughing in the back seat of the car, or at home when they’ve earned a little screen time, we love these 12 silly songs all found on YouTube. Especially because when you search for “funniest YouTube...

How do you put together your IKEA furniture? How about a little YouTube help.

by Christina Refford | Websites We Love

When an IKEA opened a few miles from me, I became one of those devotees who believes one can never have enough EXPEDIT bookcases–provided you can figure out how to put them together. Not all of us have that gene (or understanding of Swedish cartoon instructions)...

Where pop culture, technology, and art meet. Also, Bronies.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Websites We Love

In a world where news arrives in 140 characters or less and we thank people for their birthday wishes by clicking the Like button, it can be all too easy to fly on autopilot when it comes to deeper thinking. But there’s a beauty behind pop culture phenoms like...

This Mr. Rogers video makes us miss our childhoods

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment

We just couldn’t let the weekend go by without sharing this amazing Mr. Rogers video with you. If you’re like us, then you grew up with Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on your old remote-less television. Ah, those were the days!  Trust us, this cool,...

Skipping to the good parts with YouTube Time

by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love

I can’t count the number of times I’ve wished that I could just share a YouTube video at the best part rather than sending the whole entire thing. Well, even though you can actually do that on YouTube (who knew?), here’s a cool service that...

Gube: Like YouTube. Except safe for kids.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Justin Timberlake dressed as a cup of soup. Michael Bolton vamping as Captain Jack Sparrow. Both are a YouTube hoot. The idea of my kids coming across either one while clicking through to what they think might be age appropriate is not. Enter Gube. Think of it as...

DuckyTube: Like YouTube only, you know. With ducks. (Not really.)

by Pilar | Best Apps

My kids have a serious iPhone habit, and yes, I suppose you could call me the ultimate enabler since the kidcentric apps on my devices vastly outnumber the ones meant to help adults make a decent mixed drink (ahem). And then there’s YouTube. Both kids have...

VideoHunters makes the hunt for kid-friendly videos easy

by Jeana | Entertainment

We’ve all witnessed the hilarity of viral YouTube hits like David at the Dentist and Charlie Bit my Finger. But there are countless others that haven’t gotten nearly the same amount of attention that are just as funny. And here’s how to find them. Or...