April Fool's Day

Everyone's favorite photo-sharing app rocked the parenting world yesterday when they announced the possibility of banning all photos of minors on Instagram . Our Twitter and Facebook feeds were going nuts, as you can totally imagine. Evi…

We admit we were pretty pleased with our own April Fool's joke on Cool Mom Tech yesterday-- we even fooled some of our own staff! Also, we're still apologizing to some panicked people, who are worried that their ex boyfriends know they'v…

When you check your Facebook profile, do you have a notification that says "Who's Looking At My Profile" on the top left? If so, you're one of the lucky few to get a first look at the huge new Facebook Reveal feature--which is either a g…

With two tweens, I'm increasingly aware of all the trouble they might get into using social media like Instagram, Facebook , and especially Snapchat . A.K.A. "the sexting app"--eep! Even if it is just an accidental lapse in judgment, it …

My kids may be too young to go to a PG-13 movie on their own, but that doesn't mean they aren't as obsessed with The Hunger Games as the rest of the world these days. And while they're already reenacting their favorite scenes from the bo…

If you haven't yet figured out that it's April Fool's Day (meaning you're still angry at us for this post ), it's a great time to catch up on practical jokes going around the geeky world. An annual favorite: The awesome shop Think Geek ,…

Having never learned a foreign language myself, I'm determined to make sure my kids are fluent in something other than "whine." Too bad that doesn't count towards college credit. So in my search for cool language programs for kids, I was…