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Total Baby Talk about a complete package! Total Baby keeps you up to date on all aspects of your baby’s progress — anywhere, at anytime. This app offers 14 separate timing, tracking and logging functions, including diapers, milestones, nursing, pumping, doctor visits, a diary, sleeping habits and

Each day as a parent you wear a variety of hats: mom/dad, spouse, employee, household CFO, chef, chauffeur, etc., and with each of these hats comes the requirement to juggle and prioritize different responsibilities, inputs, and schedules. As professional organizers, we at Innovatively Organized con

It all started with an “aha” moment of insight, between ordering a baby gift on potterybarnkids.com and downloading Taylor Swift on iTunes. The thinking went like this: Moms, endlessly in front of their laptops, smart phones or iPads, must be experiencing some sort of existential crisis. They’ve got

There are times when you have to wonder what people in the consumer electronics industry are thinking. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show is a good example. I thought I’d seen everything when one exhibitor demonstrated a $39 device that tidies up iTunes libraries and another offered a new line of

Teens and tweens of every stripe are logging onto Buzz, Skype, email and Facebook. Should parents know their children’s passwords and monitor their communication? The debate sparks passion on both sides. Some parents believe their children have a right to privacy, as with the locked diaries and hush

By Patti Skelton-McGougan, executive director of Youth Eastside Services. Disturbing YouTube videos, showing cutting and other self-injury methods, are drawing millions of views and have the potential to trigger troubled youth to copy the behaviors, a study warns. Though the issue of self-harm has

In need of a little "edutainment" during that long car ride or wait at the doctor's office? Here are 20 of our favorite Android apps that will help strengthen your tot's early learning skills with shapes, numbers and letters -- all while making boredom a thing of the past! Want more apps?Be sure to

After coming out with our top 40 iPhone app picks for families, we were amazed by the outcry from our readers for more apps... and darn it, we listened! Here's our picks for fantastic Windows Phone 7 apps that are great for kids and parents. And stay tuned for Blackberry apps in the near future, we'