According to a new study by Nielsen Online, our kids are going online in droves and spending more and more of their time on the internet. In May 2009, active online users included 16 million U.S. kids aged 2 to 11, which represents 9.5% of the active online population.  Over the past five years, the number of kids [...]

Want to help your kids become better spellers?  There’s an app for that. I just discovered KidWords, an iPhone application that helps kids learn how to spell.  Check out this video from KidWords’ developer 3lb Games to see how it works.  A few things I like about KidWords: It helps teach kids to sound out [...]

This morning I picked a bright orange hairband to pull back my daughter’s hair.  She asked why I picked orange.  I told her I thought it was a cool color. My five year old corrected me.  “Orange is a warm color, Mom.” She learned that from Blue’s Art Time Activities.  She used it a lot in preschool [...]