Archive for the ‘Preschool’ Category

Console Games For Toddlers?

Recently, I was asked to review the WEBEE. It’s a console game system for toddlers. Originally, I was skeptical. Is this necessary? But I thought I would give it a try. My kids and I recently tested it and were pleasantly surprised. Its plug and play ability

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Summer learning for preschoolers

With my oldest entering kindergarten next year, I’m slowly becoming integrated into the public school system. One hot topic I’m hearing about seems to be the length of the summertime break. In Canada the school year begins in September and ends in June. For school kids this

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Summertime Vacation Apps

Since we’re taking our tablet on vacation, I’ve been thinking about the apps my kids will use. Am I loading new apps onto it or simply letting them play the old ones? And if I’m purchasing new apps for the summer, what criteria am I using for

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App Ratings: Do Your Parental Due Diligence!

A trend in game apps is to launch new relevant content when big events occur such as Christmas or Halloween. The folks at Beeline, who make the Smurfs game, recently released a new update for the Euro 2012 football tournament. The update is horribly buggy. After playing

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Flying, tablets and parenting: Oh my

These days it is tough to be a parent with young kids in public spaces. Restaurants are banning kids under six, breast feeding in public is still an issue (let’s move on people) and sometimes a simple task such as shopping with kids is frowned upon. Recently,

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Why I pay for educational apps

So I was browsing my kids large lengthy app collection and it’s quite embarrassing really, the number of apps that we own. I did a quick scan and an interesting price pattern emerges. Early on I purchased/downloaded a lot of free and $0.99 apps for my kids

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Mommy Tablet Tech Guilt: Nope!

Since I’ve become a Mom I’m racked with guilt. I only breast-fed my kids for 4-6 weeks (eek!), my youngest sleeps in our bed (although maybe that’s good based on Time’s recent article) and both my kids go to full-time daycare (what can I say – I’m

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In-App Rewards – Sending the wrong message?

I won’t lie – my family spends a lot of time on the tablet. Since we’ve cut cable, which I blogged about here, the tablet has become our primary mechanism of screen time. It’s actually much nicer than the continuously loud blaring TV. Our house is actually

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