My first instinct (and job) as a mom is to keep my kids safe, so when I found out how many thousands of bits...
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My first instinct (and job) as a mom is to keep my kids safe, so when I found out how many thousands of bits...
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During a recent discussion with a group of young kids about what they wanted to be when they grow up, I was surprised when...
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A couple years ago my husband and I bought a house that was built the same year we were born, and it had never...
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If you’ve ever played around at the social media and fashion community Polyvore (or uh, got stuck there until 3AM ahem) you’ll be excited...
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If you write a blog, or are on any kind of social media, there’s probably been a time that you wanted to publish a...
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School fundraisers are increasingly necessary these days with so many funding cuts, but we all know that even as kids are out shilling candy...
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I always love seeing the way companies are using technology to bring their online catalogs to life and one of my favorite design brands...
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Without exaggerating, there’s probably hundreds of things I wish were around when my kids were younger, and Bill Nye’s old show is definitely on...
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This has been a great month for Google Doodles (maybe those free lattes are keeping everyone inspired?) and today’s Halloween Witch is a perfect...
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Since we launched Cool Mom Tech just three years ago, we are amazed at how much has changed. There was no Pinterest then. There...
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If you’re like us, then you’ve got holiday shopping lists coming out of your ears and are always looking for the best way to...
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Whether you’ve been busy with a million other demands or you just realized that Great Aunt Martha is coming to Christmas dinner and you...
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You’d think that when baby #3 came along, parenting would be old hat. But…nope. Forgot everything. Rather than comb the Internet for hundreds of different...
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Kids lack perspective. We see it in our own kids when they moan, this is the worst day ever! and we remember it from...
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I love when my kids come home from school and excitedly tell me about something fun they did that doesn’t include snack, lunch or...
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I am utterly taken with this website that features drawings of scientists by kids before and after meeting them. The seventh graders visited a...
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Don’t you love when you discover a really cool video online that’s not made with kids in mind at all, but you know your...
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It’s been 10 years since Sal Khan first started creating educational video tutorials to help his niece across the country with her math homework....
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We admit we were pretty pleased with our own April Fool’s joke on Cool Mom Tech yesterday– we even fooled some of our own staff!...
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I love the convenience of being able to buy everything from coffee to couch pillows on sites like Amazon, but it’s not always easy...
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