holidays | Cool Mom Tech https://coolmomtech.com Cool Mom Tech is the intersection of tech and style, of parenting, practicality and fabulosity, brought to you by the same team behind Cool Mom Picks. Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:22:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://coolmomtech.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/cropped-cmt-512-1-32x32.png holidays | Cool Mom Tech https://coolmomtech.com 32 32 We’re spreading love to our Jewish friends and family with these Hanukkah ecards https://coolmomtech.com/2022/12/hanukkah-ecards-2022/ https://coolmomtech.com/2022/12/hanukkah-ecards-2022/#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:49:10 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=47527 Though I send out inclusive Happy Holidays cards to a lot of people, I think this is an especially good year to also send a specific Happy Hanukkah greeting to our Jewish friends and family. Jewish Americans tend feel a bit overlooked in this season of Christmas carols, mall Santas, and mistletoe; but as Liz described in […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2022/12/hanukkah-ecards-2022/feed/ 0 18 of the best tech gifts for teens — according to actual teens https://coolmomtech.com/2022/08/best-tech-gifts-teens-games-photography-creativity/ https://coolmomtech.com/2022/08/best-tech-gifts-teens-games-photography-creativity/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:20:17 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=38717 We know shopping for the best tech gifts for teens can be pretty challenging, but in our experience, tech is pretty much always a hit — provided it’s age appropriate. And we’ve got that down! For more than 10 years now, we’ve been in on the hottest new tech trends so we can share them […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2022/08/best-tech-gifts-teens-games-photography-creativity/feed/ 0 10 photo tips for fireworks: How to keep from coming home with 127 blurry blips in the sky https://coolmomtech.com/2022/06/photo-tips-for-fireworks/ https://coolmomtech.com/2022/06/photo-tips-for-fireworks/#respond Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:40:21 +0000 http://coolmomtech.com/?p=30249 Fireworks are at the top of nearly everybody’s list of favorite Fourth of July memories, but capturing the magic in fireworks photos can be extremely tricky. So we scoured our favorite photography and tech resources for great photo tips for fireworks, so that the morning of July 5, you don’t find yourself scrolling through all those blurry photos, and saying, […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2022/06/photo-tips-for-fireworks/feed/ 0 The Snowy Day: the Opera. How to stream it free with the kids over break https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/snowy-day-opera-houston-grand-opera-streaming/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/snowy-day-opera-houston-grand-opera-streaming/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 14:49:40 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=46359 For those of you who also grew up with Ezra Jack Keats’s magical The Snowy Day, you can imagine my thrill at discovering The Snowy Day has become a wonderful opera now available to stream on the the Houston Grand Opera website Even better, we can all watch it right now, totally free. The lovely, […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/snowy-day-opera-houston-grand-opera-streaming/feed/ 0 5 of the best Santa tracker apps to prove he’s real. Because he is. So there. https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/best-santa-tracker-apps-websites/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/best-santa-tracker-apps-websites/#respond Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:00:46 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=46344&preview=true&preview_id=46344 This year is definitely the year of the Santa tracker app. After, all, even the biggest Santa fans among us know that while he is vaccinated (so don’t worry kids) we want to keep him safe — and him, us. So we’re avoiding the mall and turning to some terrific tech in the form of […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/best-santa-tracker-apps-websites/feed/ 0 For last-minute online holiday invitations, Paperless Post Flyers are the best! https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/paperless-post-flyers-online-invitations/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/paperless-post-flyers-online-invitations/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:10:56 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=38687 If you’re a fan of Paperless Post like we are, don’t miss out on Paperless Flyers as a genius way to send out all your last-minute holiday invitations, school fundraisers, or to invite out-of-town family to the kids’ end-of-year-recitals over Zoom. After all, everything is kind of last-minute this holiday it seems; so many events are a little […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/paperless-post-flyers-online-invitations/feed/ 1 How to add a holiday aesthetic to your iPhone: 3 easy ways https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-to-add-iphone-holiday-aesthetic/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-to-add-iphone-holiday-aesthetic/#respond Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:00:31 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=46290 Lately I’ve been looking for the best way to add a holiday aesthetic to my iPhone, uh…. like all the teenagers in my life do. Of course you can always customize your own iPhone icons yourself, I don’t have quite as much time to spend on crafting the perfect holiday theme. So instead, I’ve found 3 […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-to-add-iphone-holiday-aesthetic/feed/ 0 All the ways kids are using tech to make their holiday gift wishlists: 11 ideas https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-kids-use-tech-holiday-birthday-wishlists/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-kids-use-tech-holiday-birthday-wishlists/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:58:09 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=46191 I’m absolutely fascinated by the way my own kids and step kids use tech to make ongoing gift wish lists — the iOS Notes app has become the method of choice for them and so far, that’s working pretty well for us. Then I saw Jessica Bradley Rushing’s hilariously 2021 tweet: 11yo sent me his Christmas […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/12/how-kids-use-tech-holiday-birthday-wishlists/feed/ 0 12 practical tech gifts to help get us through another long winter | Holiday Tech Gifts https://coolmomtech.com/2021/11/practical-tech-gifts-for-winter/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/11/practical-tech-gifts-for-winter/#respond Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:30:41 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=42473&preview=true&preview_id=42473 Not everyone loves a big, splurgey, outrageous tech gift — some of us are happy with practical tech gifts. Especially these days, when those gifts just may help us get through another (deep sigh) long winter. Colder weather has officially settled in for many of us, and I’m hoping we don’t go back to a […]

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]]> https://coolmomtech.com/2021/11/practical-tech-gifts-for-winter/feed/ 0 The new snow globe Pop Sockets are a must-have situation this holiday https://coolmomtech.com/2021/11/snow-globe-pop-sockets/ https://coolmomtech.com/2021/11/snow-globe-pop-sockets/#respond Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:41:54 +0000 https://coolmomtech.com/?p=46007 How magical are these snow globe Pop Sockets that I just discovered for the holidays? Yes, they perform the exact same function as regular Pop Socket grips in preventing dropped phones during selfies, but also, THEY’RE SNOW GLOBES. In case I didn’t make that clear. And yes, that means they have real glitter encased in […]

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