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"Breathe A Sigh of Relief With These 10 Parenting Apps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Baby Monitor &amp; Alarm\n\nSleep is rare for new moms and dads. Mid-day naps may be your only opportunity to rest. \nThe Baby Monitor &amp; Alarm app allows parents to momentarily step away from a sleeping baby. The app turns your smartphone into a baby monitor. Lay the phone on a nightstand and receive a call to another phone when the baby wakes. \nPrice: $3.99 iPhone and Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. MagicSleep \n\nMagicSleep plays sleep-inducing sounds for infants and toddlers. The soothing app recreates \"psychoacoustic sounds\" heard in the womb to ease a baby's post-natal transition.\nPrice: $3.99 for iOS app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Food on the Table \n\nMake dinner time a cinch. The Food on the Table app packs a GPS-based grocery store locator and a savvy meal planner. Depending on where you shop, the items on sale and your family's food preferences, the planner will recommend daily meals and accompanying grocery lists. \nPrice: Free iPhone and Android app \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Word Wizard\n\nWord Wizard turns your iPhone or iPad into a powerful spelling-and-speaking device. By lining up letters in the app, children can hear the phonetic sounds the characters make. Children can explore their ABCs, words and eventually learn to read with this incredibly interactive app. \n(Bonus: It's also available in Spanish)\nPrice: $2.99 iPhone and Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5.  Kytephone\n\nIf you're planning on buying an Android phone for your child once he or she is out of diapers, you'll want this app. \nThe Kytephone app makes any Android phone kid-friendly with various controls. The easy-to-use interface lets children connect with approved family and friends. Moms and dads can also control apps and camera functions. The location tracker is a neat feature. It updates the main system with the child's whereabouts every 15 minutes.\nPrice: Free Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. MeeGenius\n\nMeeGenius is a great iPhone or iPad app for little readers. Hundreds of children's titles are available within the app. Digital books run from $0.99 to $4.99 (cheaper than in-store hardcovers). The free app comes with six free titles, read by one of eight different narrators. Cool features include word highlighting and audio playback.\nPrice: Free iOS and Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. ChoreMonster\n\nParents, it's time to stop threatening the kids' TV and Internet privileges. \nKids will want to do their chores with ChoreMonster. The app turns boring chores into a fun game. Rewards are determined by parents (ChoreMonster suggests hugs, money or special trips).\nParents can create schedules and decide the points system. Kids can use the app or web platform to view responsibilities, points and deadlines. \nPrice: Free iOS app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. WebMD Baby\n\nThe WebMD Baby app is a must-have for new parents. The all-in-one mobile resource is tailored for parents of newborns (up to the first year). On the app, parents can access hundreds of articles and videos, developed and approved by doctors. Parents can also track a newborn's sleep schedule, feeding and growth. \nPrice: Free iOS and Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Red Rover\n\nRed Rover lets parents take advantage of their social networks and plan get-togethers on the fly. Moms and dads can schedule last-minute play dates for the kids by blasting announcements on Twitter or Facebook. \nUsers can share photos, comments and future plans publicly or privately with the app. On the platform, you can also invite friends and their kids to future events. \nThe app includes an Emergency Tab \u2014 prompting a 911 call will send a text to emergency contacts you've pre-set in the app. \nPrice: Free iPhone app. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Baby Connect \n\nBaby Connect is an activity tracker for everything your baby does \u2014 seriously. Use the Baby Connect app to keep track of your child's poops, pees, meals, sleep, moods, activities, medication and daily cuteness. Parents can even authenticate others to contribute to the tool. \nEssentially, the Baby Connect app is for data-loving parents. There are several logs, graphs and intelligent timers.\nPrice: Free iOS and Android app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeing a parent in the smartphone era is a serious blessing. We have an arsenal of essential parenting tools that didn't exist a few years ago \u2014 and they're right in our pockets. \nAmong the hundreds of parenting apps available, you'll find baby poop trackers, carpool apps and mobile educational products.\n\nSEE ALSO: 10 Infectious YouTube Clips of Babies Laughing at Dogs\nWe discovered many new favorites, including the free Pitter-Pad iPad App, which measures tiny infant feet to compute accurate shoe sizes. For our parenting apps roundup, we focused on 10 applications with serious utility.\nView our favorite parenting apps above. Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know in the comments. \nImage courtesy of Flickr, Charlotte Morrall"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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