As I sat my toddler in front of my iPad playing My Very First App, in order to prepare a healthy, non-processed puree of foods for my infant, I remembered that this was declared screen-free week. The blog I read that alerted me to this fact was titled, “Will You Challenge Your Kids to Participate?”…   Read more »

    This post comes from Angie Cash, our Production Artist. She shares her thoughts on one of her favorite books, perfect for children and the changing seasons!   With the recent change in weather, it’s the perfect time to celebrate what’s great about fall with Seasons by Blexbolex.  Hard to believe this beautiful book…   Read more »

  Things have been crazy and busy over here in the NDS corral – we’re prepping a number of new apps as we speak that’ll be out oh-so-soon! We’re super excited. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’re not showing love to our faithful standbys, the “classics” of our app repertoire, if you will. Peekaboo Barn is…   Read more »

A recent article in the New York Times came off as slightly critical of technology in the classroom, because it didn’t seem to lead to improved test scores. But is it too early to tell? My question is this, how often is value taken into consideration when kids are reviewing text books? All children learn…   Read more »

When I was a kid, back-to-school meant a few new outfits (which I would fight with my mom over), picking out new notebooks (something garish and Lisa Frank-themed), and buying books (that I could cover with brightly-colored paper and have my friends write all over it). Things have changed since the dark ages and nowadays…   Read more »

We were thrilled this morning to wake up to this great review of our Peekaboo Barn app in Consumer Reports! Thank you so much to the lovely MommyBeta who said that Peekaboo was one of the “cuter animal apps I’ve seen in a while” and among her child’s favorite apps. As always, we’re flattered and…   Read more »