Mother knows best, right? Well, what about the days when Mommy needs a little help remembering important things – like doctor appointments or medications? Meet, MotherKnows – a new app that is designed specifically to help moms (and dads, too) keep on track with their children’s medical information and appointments. One of the best features, [...]

Today a big treat! ThinkCube, the developers of CookieCoo Dancing Star has given me five $10 iTunes gift cards for my readers. CookieCoo is currently a free app and it has a very fun look and premise so I’m planning on downloading it for my own kiddos. Here are some details about the children’s rhythm [...]

Friday I published a review of handPaint SuperPack. It was the day before our Spring Break started and for several different reasons we had complete chaos at home. In the madness I forgot that I have two promo codes to give away for the app. You can read about handPaint SuperPack here and then leave [...]

Every spring I get that cleaning bug that leaves me wishing for more storage space.  A little more virtual storage would be nice too. AirDisk Pro is an easy to use app enabling you to use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi Flash Drive, file manager, and document reader.  It allows you [...]

Toto and the Leopards – Ride with Toto, the Indian auto-rickshaw and his driver Pattu as they go about solving problems, helping others, and having loads of fun along the way. In this story, Toto helps a little lost leopard cub reunite with his parents and in a surprising twist, also helps the parents! The [...]

Giving a quick shout out to Kindertown, a solid app for finding quality educational apps. Kindertown is an “educational app store” and they put apps through a review matrix built around four sets of criteria that focus on both educational strategies and user features. Apps that meet the Kindertown standard are featured in their app. [...]

Tales for Great Grandchildren comes from storyteller John Jackson and is a collection of folk and fairytales. The stories have been collected from India and Nepal and I had not heard them before. They are presented as if in an actual book with beautiful illustrations. Readers can choose to read the tales by themselves or [...]

The Lost Gorilla – Mom, It’s Me! is the newest app from My Digital Photostory. Taking your child’s photo you attach it to the body of the story’s main character, putting your child at the heart of the story. As children read The Lost Gorilla they will see themselves in the illustrations. The story features [...]

Today a guest post from Brian Donahue with Seer Interactive. Brian has tackled the topic of iPad Apps as entertainment for long airplane flights. Would you believe only one of my four children has ever been on an airplane? I would much rather load everyone in the van for a road trip where it’s only [...]

Share My ABCs introduces children to Alphabet World. Here they will learn to trace the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet and an animal word to go with each letter. The app demonstrates the tracing strokes and then children can write the letters and words for themselves. They will also find the shape of [...]