It’s TheFABMom’s Family Safety Week — on CBS Los Angeles! Is your garage safe? That’s right, kids: Every night this week (November 14-18, 2016) I’ll be tackling topics and quick fixes to help keep our families safe from all angles — setting up a safe garage, preparing an easy disaster kit with kids, getting ahead of…
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CBS Los Angeles: Election Results & Respect.
What should we tell the kids?!? Almost every Southern California parent on my social media feeds, in addition to the LA Times and The Huffington Post, are asking this question after President Elect Donald Trump won the election. Many in Southern California don’t like these election results. But here they are. No matter what side…
CBS Los Angeles: LA Baby Show & biggest mistakes new parents make.
What? New parents make mistakes? Oh yes we do. Let’s not talk about that time my first born silently slid off the bed when I looked away to grab her an outfit. (Thankfully she was okay.) Or that time I put a 9-month sized outfit on my 2 year old?!? Yeah. So, in the spirit of all…
Want to fly? Try Keeping Up With The Joneses.
DISCLOSURE: I was invited to take part in this blogger event for purposes of this post and celebrating the upcoming movie Keeping Up with the Joneses. All experiences and opinions are mine. It was a Thursday morning. I had gleefully RSVP’d YES. I was gonna fly, baby! Like, really fly. I used to have dreams about…
CBS Los Angeles: Parent Teacher Conferences can be FUN?!
October and November are parent-teacher conference months for most schools across Southern California. Some of us look forward to one-on-one time with teachers while others dread it. Research proves that family involvement that is linked to learning leads to bigger success at school. Parent teacher conferences had me freaked the first time. Now, I think they’re fun. Yes:…
Time Management: The timer that changed me.
I don’t have time for that. Cite those words as the most frequent phrase flying out of my mouth these days. It’s getting flipping annoying…even to myself. You too? I had a hunch. Here are five fast tips for time management so we can make more time in our days. Because we can all use more time…
CBS Los Angeles: Bully this, Bully that.
When I told my mom that I was covering ‘bullying prevention tips’ on my CBSLA segments last week, she sorta rolled her eyes through the phone. Okay, she REALLY rolled her eyes through the phone and was not so shy about expressing what she thought: “In all my [40] years as a teacher, I never…
