How to stop yelling at our kids? If you’ve followed me long enough here, you know that I’m prone to yell. Blame my (loud & dramatic) Armenian heritage, blame that my parents & grandparents yelled when I was a kid (conditioning me for it) or blame that maybe I can’t let ingrained habits go. Is…
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Crazy times call for… extreme caution?
Crazy times. This is the state of what we’re living in now. CRAZY TIMES. (Is this why I’ve found myself wanting to cry — or, really crying — over what I’ve seen and read in the news lately? For the sake of being specific, I’m writing this just days after we’ve seen a toddler boy fall into…
CBS Los Angeles: How to talk to other parents about guns.
My latest ‘FAB Mom on 2’ segment on CBS Los Angeles? How to talk to other parents about guns. Yes, anchor Pat Harvey and I veered outside our usual fun-and-fabulous-tips-for-all format. Thanks to recent tragic stories in the news (involving gun violence) and the month of June being National Safety Month, we tackled a topic…
How to clean house with kids? {LG Electronics HOM-BOT}
An FYI: The following tale is part of a sponsored partnership with LG Electronic’s HOM-BOT Square Vacuum and Mom.me. All experiences and opinions are mine. Ah, The House. It’s a beast. It can get out of control so fast. How to clean house with kids can be, well, challenging. The toys. The dishes. The crumbs all over the…
How to prepare for motherhood? Work in show business.
So, if you read my little bio on this page (“Meet the Mommy”) you know I had two babies pretty much back to back: one was born in September 2010, the other one born in March 2012. Do the math. That’s not a lot of time between bumps and babies. (I still have no idea…
CBS Los Angeles: Family Travel Tips to Keep You Truckin’ Along.
Summer’s here and off we go! Family travel isn’t always easy (especially if you have toddlers, hello) but we all must keep truckin’ along and just go with it, right? Right. For my recent CBS Los Angeles ‘FAB Mom on 2’ segment, I figured it’d be fun to do a roundup of some of my…
Working Mom: Why I don’t let my girls watch me on TV.
Got working mom guilt? I can’t say I do, but I do have working mom worries. Thanks to TV gigs (CBS Los Angeles!), writing a book (The FAB Mom’s Guide!) and maintaining this baby of a blog (plus other sites I write for!), I officially became a full time working mom this past February (meaning, the hours…
