Tech

The Best STEM Toys and Gifts for Kids for 2019

Are you shopping for the best STEM toys and gifts for your kids this holiday season? Here you’ll find what’s new and recommended for 2019 as well as the best classic STEM ideas for kids. Discover robots, building blocks, science kits, circuitry, math games, and much more! This is the best list of science, technology, […]

40+ Coding Classes, Websites, Games, and Apps for Kids

Updated: 1/1/19 If you’re looking for coding or pre-coding classes, games, toys, and apps for your kids to learn to code, you’ll find everything you need here. But first, let’s define terms. Coding is learning a foreign language — a machine foreign language. Just like any language, the ability to read and write it is a literacy of […]

Hands-On Early Learning LEGO Coding Express

Want to introduce your youngest learners to coding? LEGO Education Coding Express introduces children ages 2 – 5 to coding concepts by combing with the playful learning fun of LEGO Duplo bricks with the beginning coding concepts. My four testers LOVED this early technology and science train set– and didn’t want to stop playing with […]

Tips for Kids Reading eBooks

As parents and educators, we must look for the many possible ways for children to read. This includes reading eBooks on the iPad, Kindle, NOOK, or any device with reading apps. Since the reading experience is different, let’s think through how to best use this eBook reading technology for learning purposes. The Joan Ganz Cooney […]

Read With Me Kids App Lets Parents Personalize a Printed Book

written by Christa Jimenez of Pura Vida Moms Disclosure: I had the opportunity to test the app Read With Me Kids in partnership with Imagination Soup and sponsored by Read With Me Kids. As usual, all opinions are my own. I’m always looking for ways to encourage my kids to read– we have an independent […]

What Learning Benefits Happens When Kids Listen to Lunii Storyteller?

Disclosure: I worked in partnership with Lunii to bring you this information. Lunii, My Fabulous Storyteller, is SO much fun for kids — it’s an interactive, screenless storytelling toy that narrates audio stories which kids have created themselves. Not only does this develop a child’s imagination, it builds their vocabulary and builds important pre-reading strategies as well. Use […]

What I’m Doing About My Teenager’s Screen Time Addiction

My 16-year-old daughter’s therapist recently had yet another come-to-Jesus talk with my husband and me. Don’t get me wrong, it was awesome. They are always awesome. But there’s always some regret and a little shame that I feel getting told I need to make changes. Like, why didn’t I do things differently in the first […]