Hi parents. Just in time for holiday shopping, some legit and tragic research about the rise in teen suicide that will make us think twice (or three or four or five times) before snagging and giving our kids their first smartphone this season. Yeah, you heard me: Can we stop getting kids smartphones before they…
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CBS Los Angeles: Let our girls be.
When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I made the wacked-out choice (by today’s obsessive compulsive standards, anyway) to NOT find out the gender of my baby before delivery. (Spoiler alert: She was a girl — hooray!) I also made the same unfathomable choice (again, people thought I was nuts) to NOT find out…
CBS Los Angeles: What I NEVER thought I’d tackle on TV.
The hardest job of a parent is to raise our kids in the world we live in — not the world we want it to be. I started working in television as an entertainment reporter back in 2005. No way did I ever want to talk about hard news — murders, tragedy, destruction — ever….
CBS Los Angeles: Let’s talk about sex on TV?!?!
As of this writing, I’m approaching 150 FAB Mom segments created, curated and put-together exclusively for CBS Los Angeles news. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEGMENTS?!?!!? (Technically, the segment below is #148 — but who’s counting? Well, ME. I’m counting. Because I almost can’t believe I’ve talked for a rough, collective 450 minutes — 7.5 hours…
CBS Los Angeles: The BIG way to prep kids for disaster.
How to prepare kids for disaster? Oh geez. This is where we’re at right now, isn’t it. My daughters are ages 5 and 6 (technically, the older on is this close to 7 — and she will remind you if you say she’s 6). They’re little. But man, the world is freakin’ me out lately….
FAB on E! The before-babies goal finally comes true…
The FAB news? I finally made it to E News! The funny part? I had to have two back-to-back babies, plug away at a blog for 7 years and write a 256 page book to get there. And some think showbusiness isn’t real, hard work. For your (FAB) entertainment, take a peek at my ‘bumpy’…
Back to School: When a backpack freaks you out.
It’s here! We’re back. Back to early mornings, back to schedules, back to school backpacks. And we feel fine. (Even though I’m not quite done with sleeping in and making the daily big choice between going to the pool or just hanging around for the day… but it’s not all about me, now is it?)…
