When was the last time you ate a real meal alone — in a legit restaurant — with no companion, no phone, no magazine, no one else that you knew to talk to? For me, it was on my trip to New York (for book work). I did it three times. No, wait. Four. Four? Yes,…
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CBS Los Angeles: Mother’s Day Complications. Oh Geez.
Mother’s Day is when family life can get complicated? Well, sometimes. Remember that time I spilled how much I hate it? Or what about that time I wanted to work a 12-hour day from hell because it made me happy at the time? Yeah, I’ve got a semi-dysfunctional relationship with Mother’s Day. (All this despite my…
CBS Los Angeles: Stop tagging my teen!
How to manage teen use of social media so they don’t get into trouble? Shut it all down. Just kidding. I mean, we definitely can to prove a point but chances are we can’t shut down teens’ social media usage forever. I mean, they’re TEENS. They find ways (so I’m told from friends who are…
CBS Los Angeles: Money talks. (Do you?)
Money. It’s (allegedly) the number one cause of divorce and a major reason why many parents find themselves laying awake at night and/or arguing about life. (How the hell are we going to afford college with the rising cost of EVERYTHING?!?! Why can you buy your x-y-z but I can’t buy my a-b-c?!?!?!) Money makes me nervous….
CBS Los Angeles: Tips for getting kids to sleep!
How to get kids to sleep better? Get your answers here. Ok fine… this post might be a bit of an oversell. But we can try, right? Raise your hand if you have trouble getting young kids to sleep. (Hand raised.) Raise your hand if it’s driving you mad. (Hand raised.) Raise your hand if…
A really bad day and fabulous daughters.
When Mom has a bad day it can show what kids are made of. No? We’ve all had really bad days. (Aren’t they fun? Ha. Yeah right.) I had a real doozy recently and was pretty much counting the hours for when I could legitimately go to sleep and end said ‘really bad day’ once and…
CBS Los Angeles: Let’s stop doing everything for our kids.
How’s this for a parenting resolution: Let’s stop doing everything for our kids! Too harsh? I think not.My best TV mom friend Pat Harvey and I discuss three easy things we need to STOP doing for our kids now…on CBS Los Angeles‘ FAB Mom segment. You know, in the name of good parenting. (Don’t mind…
CBS Los Angeles: Keep Crooks Away from our Kids.
Huh? Someone can ruin your child’s (nonexistent) credit file? We have to protect children from credit fraud? As though we don’t have enough to think about that can tempt our kids into trouble (social media, drinking and driving, somebody falling down on the playground and hitting their head)… now we have to worry about credit crooks getting…
CBS Los Angeles: When family holiday traditions clash.
Six years. That’s how long it took me to get my darling husband to come with my daughters and I on our annual family holiday tradition — our Christmas tree hunt. I was raised a tree-snob and have been hell-bent on passing the tradition (that makes me feel closer to my own family and childhood every…
CBS Los Angeles: Holiday gifts & ungrateful kids?!
What’s that? Sometimes kids can be ungrateful when opening holiday gifts? No. (Gasp.) Never. How to raise grateful kids who appreciate each and every gift they may get in the era of me-me-me and get-get-get? Smack ’em over the head. (Just kidding. Kinda.) Truth be told, my girls are really good girls — sure, they…
Holiday Shopping: Kick Back & Give Back with TOMS
DISCLOSURE: TheFABMom was compensated for purposes of this post. All opinions and experiences are mine. ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and giving back. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means to give. Well, let’s see. According to Google (ha. where else would I look?) here’s what I found ‘give’ to mean: v….
