I was recently contacted about the new ChatTime mobile app and given the fact that many people will be talking with loved ones over the holidays I thought this would be a timely post. ChatTime is a leading iPhone app for international calls and they are now offering free calls between users. Unlike VOIP (voice [...]

DC with Kids would like to be your pocket guidebook to seeing the sights in Washington D.C. with your children. This thorough app has more than 500 entries about things to do as a family. The app divides the attractions into categories so you can easily find the perfect thing to do on your visit. [...]

GoKids Apps: Save Paris! is part adventure and part educational game. Your mission (should you choose to accept it!) is to save Paris from a band of invading aliens called the Gloopies. In order to defeat the enemy you must complete ten different missions. You begin each mission by learning facts about France and then [...]

Color Car Mania – Anyone out there planning a road trip for Spring Break? If you’re taking a trip with the kids then you might be interested in Color Car Mania. It puts a modern day spin on the classic game of looking for different colored cars on a drive. Up to four players can [...]

Anyone out there traveling this summer? We’ll be visiting family but there are no big road trips on our agenda. We’ve learned in the past that for us traveling with a baby is exhausting. When you add in our three other children a vacation starts to feel like less of a vacation. So we’re planning [...]

Goby is a nicely organized app full of information about places to go and things to do in your area. In fact as I’m typing this I’m remembering that one of it’s main categories is actually named “Things to Do”. Other categories include “Food & Drink”, “Events” and “Places to Stay”. There is also a [...]

We have constant fights over who sits where in our van and it seems to be worse in the summer when we’re together in the car more often. When our baby was little and we were still trying to battle her acid reflux she screamed constantly in the car and nobody wanted to sit next [...]

The Road Trip Bingo app is a modern version of the classic travel game that I know as Car Bingo. The app’s screen shows a bingo card with twenty five squares. Each square contains a different picture of something you’d see out your window as you’re traveling by car. To play the game you watch [...]

Baby Travel is a travel app that has very thorough packing lists for traveling with baby. The app describes itself as “baby travel made easy” and while I don’t know if baby travel can ever be totally easy the app definitely makes the packing part simpler. There are several different parts to the Baby Travel [...]

My Little Suitcase lets your child pretend to pack a suitcase and pretend to take a trip camping, to the beach, a sleepover or a play date in the snow. They’re given a suitcase and four choices of what to pack. For example they’re shown four pairs of socks and they can drag one into [...]