The following interview is sponsored, thanks to DSG family athletic wear by Dick’s Sporting Goods. All experiences and opinions are mine. I recently got lucky to rock a totally-fierce, all-blue workout outfit and exercise with Candace Cameron Bure (aka one of my favorite TV-stars-slash-famous-moms) to put Dick’s Sporting Goods’ new line of family athletic wear…
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Summer & Screen Control with TechDen & Relay {as seen on KTLA}
The following post is sponsored by TechDen and Relay. All opinions and experiences are mine. Most of you already know how I feel about screens and kids. If not, you can check here and here and here for your entertainment. (Brace yourself. No holding back on those links. In a fun way though, so I’ve…
Best lesson from Mom? Handle it.
A previous version of this piece was first published on TODAY Show’s Parenting Team in 2015. I’m sharing here now, years later, because it’s still one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever written about my mom… xo ———————————————- The other day my adorable almost-5 year old wandered into the kitchen (as I was writing a…
I’m Raising My Kids Without Screens (mostly): It’s not that hard.
Raising kids without devices isn’t that hard. You heard me right. We’ve all been there: “Mommy, can we play with Daddy’s iPad?” (You’ve heard this too?) “Nope,” I say without hesitating. (Holler if we share a brain.) “Not now,” I soften the blow. Protesting, whining, counter-arguing and all sorts of admirable pleas that 8 and…
For the teens dealing with college rejections.
A previous version of this piece was originally published in The Fresno Bee on April 6, 2019. Thanks to the recent and crazy college cheating scandal (and friends and family being on pins and needles about college acceptance/rejections happening this month), I’ve been flashing back twenty-plus years… Flashing back to the panic, the tears, the…
2018: Everything Broke. (And why 2019 won’t.)
Arms. Legs. Computers. Hearts. Minds. Spirits. Try breaking any of them, it can hurt like hell. What goes up must come down. 2015, 2016 & 2017 were up-up-and-away-hooray in the life & career departments. In 2018, it all crashed. Oh 2018… you broke me down and broke me up. But if I may borrow wise…
I’m dreaming of a fake Christmas…
A version of the piece below was previously published in my monthly ‘FAB Mom’ family column in The Fresno Bee on December 1, 2018. Parenting through family Christmas traditions sometimes mean eating your words. Call me flocked. Since first becoming a mom I’ve taken deep pride in keeping traditions from my own childhood alive with my…
