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The Bedtime Solution – Choosing bedtime stories for the kids. All your kids.

By |July 30th, 2015|Bedtime Stories. About|

Is getting your children off to bed a challenge? Do they clamor for attention and insist it is their turn to hear a bedtime story? PonyApps fairy tales can help turn the bedtime chaos into happily ever after for all. During the daylight hours, raising children who are close in age can be a great [...]

Making screen time quality time for you and the kids

By |July 28th, 2015|Books VS Apps|

Reap the benefits of technology with the best apps and educational games for children As modern parents, when we worry about technology, the focus tends to be on our children’s obsession – not our own. We fail to see how our own preoccupation with smartphones and tables impacts our kids. Kids hate to be ignored. [...]

Screen time is not the new high-fructose corn syrup: confessions of a tech-happy mom

By |July 21st, 2015|Books VS Apps|

On a recent trip to my family doctor’s office – a waiting room rife with children of all ages – I saw a little girl in the neighborhood of three years old, happily being read to by her mom. Off of a computer tablet. I wanted to jump up and cheer. As parents, we are [...]

To let or Not to Let Your Children Read and Play On a Mobile Device

By |July 21st, 2015|Books VS Apps|

I used to be the kind of mother who stood in the way of technology use and her children. Call it mixed feelings, olds ideas, and my concern for establishing limits, but I viewed computer games and apps for kids with skepticism and distrust.  But no longer. What brought me around? I had many mixed feelings [...]