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Parent Dashboard is a microsite from Amazon that lets adults manage a child's Fire tablet or Kindle. Providing they have a subscription to Amazon Kids+, parents can remotely manage their child’s Fire for Kids settings remotely on Parent Dashboard, as well as on their child’s device. So that means parents can manage settings such as time limits or smart filters from any web browser, whether they’re downstairs or on the other side of the globe.Amazon’s Fire for Kids tablets and Kindles have some of the best parental controls around, with the ability to set bedtimes/time limits, adjust smart filters and enable...

Pay attention class, Zulily has educational deals for you! Through May 30th, Zulily.com is hosting a sale on educational toys for kids as young as 18 months. Plus, select items even have digital coupons available for extra savings! Even sweeter, click through our exclusive links to score an additional 10% off your purchase – discount automatically applies during checkout. If your goal is to keep the kids learning once school is out, these toys are a great way to exercise their brains while still having fun. Our Hip2Save Sidekick Chelsey E. and her adorable kiddos tested out some of these...

In the 1980s, psychologist Louise Bates Ames wrote a series of books explaining the stages of child development. Most of the content still holds up today, aside from some laughable exceptions. In Your Five Year Old, for example, Ames writes that by now children should be able to run errands for their parents, finding their own way to the store, selecting items, and getting correct change. To modern parents, who are expected not only to supervise but curate and direct their child’s activities, this scene is nothing if not bizarre. Ame’s description of the ability of a Kindergartner sounds straight out...

I’m thrilled to welcome Laura Brown and Elly Kramer to the Mixed-Up Files to celebrate their upcoming release of two exciting new chapter books: Trillium Sisters 1: The Triplets Get Charmed and Trillium Sisters 2: Bestie Day. They’re illustrated by Sarah Mesinga and will be published by Pixel+Ink on June 1, 2021. Three sisters discover that they and their pets have superpowers they can use to protect the world around them in this fantastical new chapter book series about family, friendship, and environmental responsibility perfect for fans of Mia Mayhem and The Wish Fairy. This is such an amazing concept...

Now that touch screens are more ubiquitous than human touch, every parent has an opinion on the Great Screen Time Debate Of The 2010s. Will the iPad destroy my infant’s capacity to love? Will my toddler ever learn their ABCs without an app? Why does Daniel Tiger need a sweater when he has fur?The American Academy of Pediatrics findings on how much screen time is appropriate for early childhood development isn’t much of a finding at all — some is good, a lot is bad, but mostly the kind of media they’re consuming is paramount. So while the debate hasn’t...