OMG. The Kindergarten countdown is here. I feel like our Ladybug Picnic birthday party just happened! (But maybe that’s because I just re-lived and re-hashed the superpower it unleashed for me back then in my new book for first-time moms…) Back to starting school: The other night I had a dream that it was my first day…
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FEAR (After Babies).
Just for today, let’s pretend that ‘The Fab Mom’ actually stands for ‘Fear After Babies’ (as opposed to ‘focused after babies’). We’re going deep here. Starting a conversation about parenting through fear. Hang with me. It’s not as fabulous or fun, but fear is real. We all have it. We all fear it. (See what I did…
Summer learning… by doing nothing. {VIDEO}
Earlier this summer, I wrote a summer parenting tips piece for Today’s Parenting Team and got a lot of support and little bit of flack… just by talking all about how we will be doing “nothing” this summer. (Well, mostly nothing… we did have swimming lessons, a brief mini-gymnastics class and a week-long cheer camp thing. But…
Friendship After Babies…
Friendships change after babies. They get bigger, smaller, better or worse. Some friendships last. Some friendships don’t. Some friendships end up in a gray zone. We all learn from our kids one way or another… I’m trying to learn more about friendship through my girls. When I was a toddler (literally, a toddler) I made…
Dance Mom Diary: Make it BIG. SO BIG.
BIGGER. BIGGER! Make it bigger. Do it bigger. Bigger is better. (Dance mom here.) Anyone who studied dance at the same studio I did growing up (you know who you are… Smooth Criminals forever…) associates the word “bigger” with equal parts affection, fear and love. More affection and love, but still a little fear. As…
5 (semi) controversial life lessons from Mom.
My mom’s a piece of work… in the best way possible. Practical. A Pep Talker. Realistic. Happy. Fun. Beyond Capable. Takes No Crap From Nobody. She’s actually the Real Fab Mom — focused, fun & fabulous after having babies. (I’m just pretending to be because I bought the URL and put my picture on the home page…)…
Armenian Moms: Step up our parenting.
Armenian moms are hot in the news these days. Kim Kardashian in her red pantsuit at one of the most somber memorials on the planet… Kanye West performing IN Yerevan, Armenia’s Swan Lake… The Pope declaring in front of God and everyone that 1915’s atrocities against the Christian citizens of then-Armenia were in fact genocide. Who knew it’d take…
