Little Rock Family

The iPhone can be a helpful tool for parents. 

Remember when you used to mark your child’s growth in pencil on the kitchen door frame? That’s so 2005. Today, there’s an app for that. And apps to predict your best chance of conceiving, record your nursing schedule and graph your baby’s diaper changes. You can put your child in timeout, find the nearest public bathroom and keep track of your child’s medication -- all from the palm of your hand.

Welcome to the world of iParenting. The iPhone isn’t just a must-have accessory for 20-something professionals anymore. It’s a digital diaper bag, stuffed with ways to spruce up, streamline and drag the ancient art of parenting into the new decade.

'If you can make a parent’s life even a little bit easier, that’s huge,' says Ken Denmead, a technology blogger for Wired magazine and author of a new book on family-friendly tech projects. 'And if you can do it in a way that’s both cool and convenient, that’s even better. The iPhone does just that. You’re looking at the next generation of parenting tools.'

Read the full article from August edition of Little Rock Family here.