Money. It’s (allegedly) the number one cause of divorce and a major reason why many parents find themselves laying awake at night and/or arguing about life. (How the hell are we going to afford college with the rising cost of EVERYTHING?!?! Why can you buy your x-y-z but I can’t buy my a-b-c?!?!?!) Money makes me nervous….
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CBS Los Angeles: Parents should check ourselves? Yup.
Family media diets are the new life skills. Why? Well, I’m sick and tired of parents being mean about the state of our world. There. #SorryNotSorry for the mini-rant, but it’s slowly killing me. It might be killing you too? The hate, the outrage, the how-can-anyone-think-about-something-in-a-different-way-than-me, the if-you-think-about-something-this-way-then-unfriend-me-right-now. I’m sorry. It’s not okay. The being aware…
LOVE IS… not what I thought it was. (huh?!)
Love is… not what I thought it was, that’s for sure. Love after kids is a whole lot more of everything real. I guess that’s one of life’s truths we learn after becoming parents. Love changes after babies. We all know it. It’s not bad or good, love just changes. It gets real when you…
CBS Los Angeles: Sneaky tricks for how to clean up a teen’s online image!
Got teens? (Not yet for me, but it’s comin’ quick… I know.) How to clean up a teen’s online image can be daunting. At the moment my daughters are barely in elementary school, but I know that college and jobs are right around the corner. What to do if, one day, we need to clean…
CBS Los Angeles: Secret Skills for Kindergarten? {VIDEO}
How to prepare for Kindergarten tends to get parents’ panties in a bundle these days. (Been there, done that!) Can’t say I blame us: Kindergarten now is more like 1st grade when we were growing up. For my CBS Los Angeles ‘Fab Mom on 2’ segment this week, brand new mom and longtime news anchor…
Why I Now Booze Undercover (with kids around).
Drinking in front of your child… responsible or not? I’ve got nothing to hide: I enjoy booze. Sure, I’ve gone drunk shopping. Sure, I first met my husband at a big dinner dance — 3 vodka-sodas in — and didn’t remember that I met him the following day when he sent me a text and said, “Nice…
CBS Los Angeles: How to stop yelling at kids?
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…
