Kids and gratitude — they won’t learn it unless we show it at the most trying of times. An earlier version of this post was previously published in The Fresno Bee — as part of my monthly ‘FAB Mom’ column. Because this topic is so important to me (GRATITUDE!) I’m also sharing here. Double the…
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CBS Los Angeles: Let our girls be.
When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I made the wacked-out choice (by today’s obsessive compulsive standards, anyway) to NOT find out the gender of my baby before delivery. (Spoiler alert: She was a girl — hooray!) I also made the same unfathomable choice (again, people thought I was nuts) to NOT find out…
CBS Los Angeles: What I NEVER thought I’d tackle on TV.
The hardest job of a parent is to raise our kids in the world we live in — not the world we want it to be. I started working in television as an entertainment reporter back in 2005. No way did I ever want to talk about hard news — murders, tragedy, destruction — ever….
Back to School: When a backpack freaks you out.
It’s here! We’re back. Back to early mornings, back to schedules, back to school backpacks. And we feel fine. (Even though I’m not quite done with sleeping in and making the daily big choice between going to the pool or just hanging around for the day… but it’s not all about me, now is it?)…
CBS Los Angeles: The teen-driver habit no one should ever smile about.
This recent FAB Mom segment on CBS Los Angeles news was tough. Tragic. Shocking. Sickening. Unbelievable. But it happened in spite of our disbelief, so we talked about it. (Pay no attention to the happy picture I posted on the title page of this post — believe me, Pat Harvey and I were *not smiling*…
CBS Los Angeles: The FBI just confirmed I was right.
I was right! I was right I was right I was right. (See, husband?) Cyber security for families is nothing to laugh at… because that little Furby can breach our privacy. This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center put out a public service announcement urging parents to “consider cyber security” before…
CBS Los Angeles: Toddlers, iPads & parenting fails.
How do you feel about toddlers watching iPads? Hm. If you’ve followed me, you know I’ve been famous to claim my longstanding no-iPads-in-restaurants-rule as one of THE key reasons why my kids can (mostly) control themselves restaurants and public places. (I continue to be equally proud and pleasantly shocked about that, by the way… turns…
