Hey guys…I'm back! I know its been forever since I have blogged and I miss you loves so much. I have so much to share but first, let me paint this picture for you and share one of my go-to resources for all you fabulous boss mamas. Picture this: It's 3:30 in the afternoon, I have two hours, three at the most, to get to the post office. It would be rough under the best of circumstances, but I have this adorable little four-year-old who is dying for my attention, pulling at my belt. So…yea, that means its looking pretty impossible to complete this task for the day.
Welcome to my world! Full time entrepreneur and full time mom. It is an impossible problem to solve, and yet it happens all the time.
The truth is my little guy is amazing: he can play all afternoon with two Hotwheel cars. But he only does that if I don't ask him to.
For me the better option are education learning games. Many of my friends worry about screen time for their little ones, but I chose the lesser of the two evils. Plus, I feel good about my decision to let both my kiddos do educational learning games.
We've used different apps over the years, so I know my son's enthusiasm for Kidloland is real. I can almost hear him chanting for it as I write this. He literally is obsessed with my phone so he can go on the app. So when I hear him learning addition and subtraction and holiday songs, I can't be mad because I know he is getting a huge dose of learning out of it.
Kidloland is an educational app for the iPhone and Android platforms. The suggested age is 6 and under. It has over 700 different nursery rhymes, games, activities, "phonics" and pre-reading instruction. I made a beeline to download the app for the phonics alone. That is a huge skill that is so valuable to learn. My little guy absolutely loves learning new words and it gives him an edge in pre-school. Love that!
He is four (almost five) now, but I could have easily seen him being engaged in the songs as a two-year old. At his age, he will do the lessons without me asking him to. He loves telling all about the names of insects and birds, stuff my husband and I had never gone over with him.
They are a lot of nursery rhymes but there is plenty of new content. He learns the songs and sing them back to me. He loves singing about the months of the year, the planets, animals on a farm, dinosaurs, days of the week. When I ask him, where did you learn all of this stuff? I should already know the answer, kidloland. It feels pretty good to know that I can sneak in a few more minutes of work or a coffee meeting with a prospective when I need to as long as I have this app. Don't get me wrong, its not a babysitter or anything, but in a pinch, it gets the job done. Working mamas sometimes have no choice. Tools and learning apps are a working mama's best friend. It can't all be videos and games all the time.
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Disclosure: We did receive free Kidloland App subscription in order to share our experiences.