StoryLines
StoryLines is a creative app that encourages interpersonal, non-competitive play. More importantly, it’s an app that made me and my kids laugh really hard. Here’s how it works: Player One types a...
View ArticleFun Apps for Summer Travel
Ah, summer. The beach, the mountains, the lake, the… long hours in a car or airplane with impatient children. If you’ll be flying or road tripping this summer, download a few new iPhone and iPad apps...
View ArticleToontastic Jr. Pirates
Toonstastic Jr. Pirates is a storytelling app that allows young kids to make their own pirate-themed animated movies. Kids choose the beginning, middle, and end of their stories by scrolling through...
View ArticleJack Stalwart: Passport to Adventure
Jack Stalwart: Passport to Adventure is a world travel-themed interactive adventure for kids based on a wildly popular series of books. (they are especially wonderful for reluctant readers, here’s a...
View Article4 Apps That Can Keep Kids Safe
Most parents — myself included — aren’t willing to delegate their child’s safety to a handheld electronic device. We’re more focused on the risks smartphones bring than the ways they can make our kids...
View Article5 Fun Games without Winners and Losers
Between homework, piano recitals, school plays, and soccer games, most kids these days have plenty of pressure in their lives. You know what they don’t have? Enough mellowness. We like tense, timed,...
View Article5 Ridiculous Apps that Kids Just Love
It’s no secret that there’s a wide chasm between what kids think is funny and what adults think is funny. While you obviously can’t measure silly, these 5 fun apps will make you wish you could –...
View ArticleBest Halloween Apps of 2013 for iPhone, iPad and Android
If you love celebrating the holidays with new apps like we do, these fun Halloween apps for your iPhone, iPad and Android are big hits. Some of them are good for your kids to play on their own, and...
View ArticleBest Apps for Kids Home from School Sick
When it comes to staying home from school sick, my kids are absolute maestros. They know instinctively which symptoms can’t be empirically authenticated and which days are least convenient for me....
View ArticleBest Travel Apps for Your Summer Road Trip
Apps and travel go together like summer and pool time. There are so many app choices out there with very different uses when it comes to travel. I’m going to skip the travel booking apps and get...
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