It’s been about a month. Things are not really fun. Things are sad (pretty most all the time). Things are hard to think about without the tears welling up and falling down my face as I load and unload my dishwasher. But I’m raising my kids with faith. Life goes on. I’m functioning. I still…
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CBS Los Angeles: Tragic Tech Overload & Teen Suicide.
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…
Count your blessings. No matter what.
Kids and gratitude — they won’t learn it unless we show it at the most trying of times. An earlier version of this post was previously published in The Fresno Bee — as part of my monthly ‘FAB Mom’ column. Because this topic is so important to me (GRATITUDE!) I’m also sharing here. Double the…
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….
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?)…
CBS Los Angeles: The teen-driver habit no one should ever smile about.
This recent FAB Mom segment on CBS Los Angeles news was tough. Tragic. Shocking. Sickening. Unbelievable. But it happened in spite of our disbelief, so we talked about it. (Pay no attention to the happy picture I posted on the title page of this post — believe me, Pat Harvey and I were *not smiling*…
