Love is… not what I thought it was, that’s for sure. Love after kids is a whole lot more of everything real. I guess that’s one of life’s truths we learn after becoming parents. Love changes after babies. We all know it. It’s not bad or good, love just changes. It gets real when you…
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CBS Los Angeles: Just relax already.
“I’ve been hostile for a month,” I literally just told my sister on the phone. “Why?” she said. “I don’t know,” I answered. The words ‘how can parents relieve stress’ have been at top of mind lately. So much for being a FAB Mom. (This FAB Mom doesn’t seem to have stress management mastered… I…
CBS Los Angeles: Sneaky tricks for how to clean up a teen’s online image!
Got teens? (Not yet for me, but it’s comin’ quick… I know.) How to clean up a teen’s online image can be daunting. At the moment my daughters are barely in elementary school, but I know that college and jobs are right around the corner. What to do if, one day, we need to clean…
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…