During the summer it can be hard to get children to practice skills learned during the school year. It can be especially difficult to keep kids reading. Sand toys replace board books on beach trips. Summer blockbusters and movies played on portable DVD players or on car ceilings are more appealing to kids than reading…
New York Times: Supporting your child’s development with technology
What is the right age to for children to have a cell phone, computer, or an iPod? How old does your kid need to be before they should be allowed to have My Space and Facebook type social networking sites and Twitter? These are the new questions of the digital age. Super psychologist Jean Piaget’s…
Websites of the Week: One Family’s Favorite Websites by Jessica
This week’s Websites of the Week are courtesy of DC Metro Area Jessica from A Parent in Silver Spring. Now that my oldest has reached the ripe old age of 4, he has been clamoring for computer time, just like mom and dad. Thanks to Tech Savvy Mama’s sage advice, we know to set the…
Website of the Week for the Sports Enthusiast in Your Life: Gold Medal Impressions
UPDATED: Congratulations to Caroline from Smarty Pants Mama! She’s our lucky winner and will be sent Paul O’Neil’s Last Homerun as selected by her husband. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Are you a Tech Savvy Mama with a Sports Loving Daddy in your life? If so, enter to win this sports…
Blogging and Racing for the Cure
If you were in the DC Metro Area this weekend you know it was hot. Really hot. And steamy too. But 13 DC Metro Mom bloggers sucked it up for a good cause and completed the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday. While I wasn’t a fan of the high temps and…
My New Gig: Being Savvy City Expert for Washington DC!
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that I wrote that I’ve been blogging liked I’ve never blogged before. And if you follow Tech Savvy Mama via e-mail, feed, or by clicking, I am sure you were confused because obviously I haven’t been blogging up a storm here. So where have I…
How Much of a Tech Savvy Mama Are You?
Remember how I was asked to give some feedback to TechMamas about qualities of a tech savvy mama? All of the comments posted to the original post on TechMamas were gathered up and made into a quiz by BabyCenter. Test your tech savvyness by clicking here to take the quiz. Be sure to leave a…
Little Miss Techie and Captain Computer Party It Up with Kung Fu Panda
Remember how I wrote that the amount of time a child spends on the computer differs for every family and we have to be sensible about what is right? Today Little Miss Techie probably spent over an hour on the computer while we slept in. Oops. My husband, feeling no guilt due to his well…
Internet Password Organizer Winner!
Congratulations to Aimee from Smiling Mama who is our Internet Password Organizer winner. If you didn’t win and truly need an Internet Password Organizer to organize your life, click here to order and get 20% off your order and free shipping on orders of 2 or more via Google checkout. And thanks to random.org for choosing our…
When is Too Much Time in Front of the Computer a Bad Thing?
Lately (ok, over the past 9 weeks) I’ve been spending way too much time in front of the computer. I usually spend a fair amount of time on the computer but recently it multiplied exponentially! It started with a 3 week online graduate course needed for my teacher recertification and then led into teaching an…
