How to talk to children about tragedy? So much for having a peaceful Holy Week. #PrayersforBrussels. This week on CBS Los Angeles, we discussed a few mindful ideas for teaching our kids to have media smarts during tragic breaking news: As I mentioned, I always go to non-profit organization Common Sense Media and heed their fabulous insight when it…
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CBS Los Angeles: Fabulous ways I fool my kids (to eat healthy).
Last week’s CBS Los Angeles‘ “FAB mom on 2” segment was all about kicking our minds into the right direction for how to get kids to eat healthy. This topic inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama and the 150 deserving, lucky-duck mom bloggers hosted at the White House last week. What? Don’t know what I’m talkin’…
CBS Los Angeles: Calling out kids’ bully behavior. {VIDEO}
It takes a village, it takes a village, it takes a village. As parents, we champion the meaning behind this phrase in the name of seeking and securing support from other parents to help us through our most rough days as moms and dads. Because, thanks to technology and all things social media life, parenting and how to…
Get Your Force On: Star Wars gifts!
It’s coming. It’s not so far away. And it’s here in our galaxy. Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is opening in theaters everywhere Friday December 18… and fans are freaking out of their minds (and out of this world). Moms. Kids. Families. (You already know we here at The Fab Mom are fans…. from training…
Tip! How to Score More Free Me Time. {video}
Don’t tell… but yes, this is how I score more free me time. (This is also how I get to eat bread & butter, candy and ice cream.) Us moms must bust out lifestyle tricks no matter how sneaky or underhanded… Now you try. Happy Fabulousing! (Yes, I realize that’s not a real word…)
Me Time. Gotta light? {video}
I’ve been crazy lately. Weird. Frantic. Nervous. I’m thinking it has something to do with a wacky week that included my daughter’s 5th birthday parties (notice I said that in the plural… one Sunday night dinner for family & one after-school tea party for neighborhood friends — both homemade, if you will) plus wild night at Disneyland,…
Yes. Motherhood changes a woman’s career.
Before you start accusing me about holding working moms back from having accomplished careers with kids or discouraging successful career women from having babies on account of sacrificing their career, let me explain myself. This week there was a ton of chatter in the entertainment news world about celebrities and their baby woes: Tyra Banks has been talking…
