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Do Toilet Training Apps Really Work? We Test Potty Time with Elmo

  This unique app offers toilet training support for only 99 cents.   Parents who need some extra help potty training their toddler will really appreciate this new app from the Sesame Workshop. Instead of having to purchase books, stickers and charts, all of the toilet training tools are at your fingertips. Many of the [...]

  Toca Boca, one of our favorite app developers, released Toca Kitchen Monsters on Thursday. This delightful free app complements Toca Kitchen, a paid app that we reviewed last month. It’s very similar – users select and prepare different food items for a hungry customer – but instead of children, a bull and a cat, [...]

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  The makers of Operation Math return with a game that teaches kids how to make sense of different combinations.   Preschool age children will certainly enjoy this inexpensive app from Spinlight Studio. The purpose of the app is to help kids choose correct combinations. To do this, mini games, quizzes and dress-up modes are [...]

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  Sometimes you can stuff all the animation, background music, gaming elements and other bells and whistles you want into an app, and it still doesn’t help anyone learn anything. At times like that, a return to the humble flashcard is called for – it’s tried and tested and guaranteed to work. But there’s no [...]

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  Pepi Play is a design studio in Vilnius, Lithuania, and they released their first app, Pepi Bath, this month. We took a quick look at the free version of the app and it looks like they’re on the right track. Pepi Play seems to have taken the TocaBoca approach to design, and the app [...]

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Hitting the road with the kids in the backseat has its pros and cons…OK, mostly cons. Instead of suffering through hours of whining, fighting, crying and tantrums, or putting on another mindless DVD, why not let them entertain themselves? We’ve rounded up five of the best apps for a road trip, ones that will keep [...]

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    Kids in Mind pre-screens movies so parents can choose one that’s appropriate for their children. Everyone’s seen those people at the movie theater bringing small children into R-rated films. Those people are not the kind of parents who would download an app like Kids in Mind. Other parents, however, who have concerns about [...]

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  This simple but smart app gives kids an incentive to do their chores.   As every parent knows, getting children to do chores (or even just to put things in their proper place) can involve a combination of tricks, demands and outright begging. Quick Kids was created by a parent as a way to [...]

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    ConversationBuilder™ is an educational app for the iPad to develop conversational skills   ConversationBuilder™ is an app that uses auditory and visual contents in order to help elementary school students learn how to properly share a conversation. Forty different situations are available in the basic package of this app, and up to 120 [...]

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Marble Jar

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      Utilize the positive reinforcement of a marble jar without the jar or the marbles!   What is the Marble Jar? Marble Jar is a free app available to Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users designed to  serve as a virtual reward system for your child or children. It works as positive [...]

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