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This is a very typical scene in our home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. On those days, the girls go to the local community preschool. While James and I fly around the house feeding the dogs, letting the chickens out of the coop, cooking breakfast, showering, packing nap sacks, and generally attempting an organized departure from our house for the day, the girls sit huddled on the couch over an iPad.

We let them indulge in the “electronic babysitter” as it makes our ability to get out the door far smoother. And it helps that the games we let them play are from a company called Tiggly, which was founded by a college classmate of ours, and has a number of Eph employees (including a good friend who writes for their blog). The games are educational and entertaining, and keep the girls occupied and content for extended periods of time. They play the games with a series of Tiggly shapes (triangle, circle, square, star) to do everything from build animals, to tell stories, to illustrate and animate characters.

We are headed to Florida on Saturday to visit James’ parents (and I have a work event mid-week) and we fully intend to rely on Tiggly to help get us through the flight South. I really love that the girls are engaged while they have time with the iPad, and that all their time in front of the screen is not just passive movie watching (to which I’m certainly not opposed, either, but, back to my mantra, Everything in moderation).

^^They totally just created a lion and are demonstrating his vocal orations.^^

I particularly love these movies that Sunny compiles with her Tiggly creations. It’s so much fun to see her creativity at work in multiple capacities. Here’s “The Story of the Two Girls.”

You can purchase Tiggly shapes here. And the Tiggly apps are free to download in the Apple Store.