I haven’t had a chance to give Nearparent a test run but I wanted to let you all know that this service is now available for the iPhone. It’s been available for the Android for awhile now but was only recently released in the App Store. The app is billed as a “Check-in and trusted [...]

YouTube is great but not exactly kid friendly. You get your little one all set-up watching a clip of their favorite cartoon and the next thing you know little fingers have gone wandering and you hear questionable language or content coming from your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. If you are like me, this has probably [...]

Mommy’s Heartbeat- The Mommy’s Heartbeat App is specially designed to slowly adjust the newborn baby to life outside the womb. Most noise maker apps make the sound too low to be heard well on the small speakers of an iPad/iPod/iPhone, but the Mommy’s Heartbeat app has a specially designed heartbeat sound that mimics the rhythmic [...]

Safe&Sound is one of those “just in case” apps. The kind of app you never want to use but will be so glad you have should you ever need it. This app stores photos and description information of your children on your iPhone. If your child ever goes missing then you have the information immediately [...]

The Baby Video Monitor will take two iOS devices and turn them into a baby monitor for you. I’ve talked about our inability to buy a lasting baby monitor in the past and I so wish these apps had been around when my children were younger. I think they’re great! I tested this one out [...]

The FBI recently released an app called FBI Child ID and I wanted to feature it as my weekly special this week. This is one of those apps that will sit on your device, hopefully never to be used but you should the need arise you’d be so grateful to have it. The app stores [...]

aWareAbouts lets your children check in with you while they’re out and about, without you having to bombard them with phone calls. The first thing you’ll do is set up contacts in the app. These will come from contacts already on your child’s iPhone. The next thing is to set a scheduled check-in time. This [...]

FotoFarm is billed as a “Google image search app that is just for kids.” Your child can quickly type in search terms and FotoFarm will bring up images that match the terms. The app uses filtering technology so images should be safe for children to view. Once children have found an image that they like [...]

Health Album is a free app for keeping track of health information and events in your child’s life. The idea is to have it all on hand in one central location where you and your doctor will have quick access to needed details. Here are some of the things you can track in Health Album. [...]

Simple Genius! That is what Little Dialers is. This free app is so very simple but if you’ve got a preschooler it can be a HUGE help in your house. Here is what Little Dialers does. You enter in a phone number that you’d like your child to learn. Little Dialers takes that phone number [...]