Your Smartphone: A Cheap Babysitter

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Read up on the pass-back effect in this article by Mom Logic’s Ronda Kaysen.

As more and more moms trade in their cell phones for smartphones, they are finding that the devices serve a second purpose: that of portable babysitter. CNN has reported that nearly half of the 100 top-selling educational apps in the iTunes App Store were created for preschool and elementary-school kids, according to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, an organization that supports using digital media for children’s education.

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