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DONNA BOZZO

The Go to Mom for Moms Everywhere
national TV contributor, spokesperson, talk show host, author, media personality, columnist, national magazine contributor, brand ambassador, TV producer

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Donna Bozzo is the go to mom for moms everywhere, 
-  ABC 7 Chicago

Ways To Make Summer Family Memories
"One summer, my girls and I took a “Road Less Traveled” trip to Washington, DC. Instead of relying on hotels, we looked for off-the-beaten-path places to stay, including overnights on a horse farm, at a state park near a waterfall, and even with an Amish family—giving us the perfect way to learn about different ways of life.” —Donna Bozzo, author of What the Fun!?"
- PARENTS

Make Your Christmas Display More Practical — And More Special.
It's a subtle change, but switching your beach vacation snaps for ones of your family playing in the snow can complete the holiday vibe in your house.
- GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Author Donna Bozzo shares easy ways to pack family fun into everyday.
- PARENT & CHILD

Ways To Keep Kids Off Of Screens During Holiday Break
- HUFFINGTON POST

Donna Bozzo Says It's Time To Put The Fun In Family
If you lived in author Donna Bozzo's neighborhood, you'd know that hers was the fun house. We're talking regular Wacky Water Balloon Wednesdays as well as kickball games, bug hunts and endless games of lawn Twister.   So for this Emmy-nominated TV family lifestyle expert and mom of three teenage daughters, it was a no-brainer to write What the Fun? 427 Simple Ways to Have Fantastic Family Fun, a book that's packed with creative ways to infuse day-to-day life with a jolt of fun showing you why you shouldn't just save the hilarity for vacations and how your family can start having more fun-- right now.
- PARADE

The Most Common Discipline Mistakes Parents Make
Read everything you can get your hands on," says Donna Bozzo, a national parenting expert who has published various books, including "Fidget Busters 50 Ways to Keep Kids Busy While You Get Things Done. This is your new job in a way, so create your own training. Also, beg, borrow and steal from any parent, teacher, etc., who you think has it going on when it comes to earning respect with children and shamelessly copy them!
- FAMILY MINDED

The Puzzle of Disciplining Your Child
Family lifestyle expert & frequent TODAY show guest, Donna Bozzo
recommends creating a family mantra. “Parents should do this to establish the direction of the family,” Bozzo says, admitting she got the idea from her brother. “The family mantra should cover a lot of things, like acting out at the movies or smoking when the parents aren’t around; it should also apply to behavior on social media.” Bozzo says she repeats the family mantra
“Make the Family Proud” every time her three daughters leave the house. Another family uses the mantra “Make Good Decisions” and has the caveat that if the children or their friends do not make good decisions, the children are to call their parents immediately and the parents will offer a safe haven. Bozzo said, “This shows respect for the kids and lets them figure out their behavior.”
Guidelines for creating a family mantra include: short, sweet, broad, effective, and as automatic as “brush your teeth.”
- PITTSBURGH PARENT

Donna Bozzo is the queen of keeping kids busy with educational hobbies instead of screens.
-  ABC 7 Chicago

Forty Reasons You Are A Better Parent After 40
“[Parents over 40] are patient and have more tools at their disposal,” says parenting expert Donna Bozzo, author of What the Fun?!: 427 Simple Ways to Have Fantastic Family Fun. In fact, “Researchers have found older moms are less likely to physically discipline their kids compared to younger moms.”
- BEST LIFE

8 Awesome Outdoor Activities for Babies and Toddlers
Donna Bozzo, author of What the Fun?! 427 Simple Ways To Have Fantastic Family Fun Play, suggests pulling loud kitchen tools and utensils outdoors and letting your baby make music.
- RED TRICYCLE

How To Instill Happiness In Kids
Bringing happiness into a child’s life creates resilience and helps him better weather the storms of life, said Donna Bozzo, author of “Fidget Busters: 50 Ways to Keep Kids Busy While You Get Things Done. Look for simple ways to make your time together more fun. Maybe it’s having dinner under the dining room table or starting out the day with a knock-knock joke written out in soap on the bathroom mirror, or fun five-minute science experiments at the breakfast table.
- FAMILY MAGAZINE

How Free Time Affects Your Child's Brain, According To Experts
"Cognitive benefits aside, making room for free time has another massive benefit: creating happy children. Donna Bozzo, parenting expert and author of Fidget Busters: 50 Ways to Keep Kids Busy While You Get Things Done, tells Romper, "Children are often stressed and tired from complicated schedules as parents try to jam in lessons, playdates, anything to give them an advantage .... Not only is all this stress bad for kids, stressed out parents make children over-anxious. Free time is good for a child because it helps them create their own joy."
- ROMPER

9 Surprising Things You Shouldn't Hide From Children
"Parents should always remember they are raising adults in the end — and you want them to be equipped to be adults," Donna J. Bozzo, a parenting expert and author, tells Romper by email. "If a family members lies about something, don't cover it up to protect them. They need to know not all people are honest.
- R OMPER

Fidget Busters
Donna Bozzo – lifestyle expert, author and mom of three – shares how children can have fun even when their parents are busy getting things done! Bozzo believes wholeheartedly that childhood is all about having some old-fashioned fun and in an age where children have ample amounts of screen time, gooey, stretchy and bumpy projects are a fun, educational way to engage their senses. And she says engaging your children with creative activities goes hand in hand with making them calmer, better students.
- NS MODERN LUXURY

Fidget Busters
“Beat the end of summer restlessness with Donna Bozzo’s Fidget Busters… It is full of easy-peasy DIY sensory play including fidget spinners, slime, and other sensory fun to help calm anxieties, improve concentration and keep kids happily occupied. In an age where children have ample amounts of screen time―gooey, stretchy, and bumpy projects are a fun, educational way to engage their senses.”
- SHERIDAN ROAD

Fidget Busters
Reading to your children is a fantastic way to teach, learn, and build close relationships. And that's what parenting is all about, right? Here are some brand new non-fiction(ish) books that we know you and your little ones (and even your not-so-little ones) will enjoy.
- FINGER LAKE TIMES

Donna Bozzo knows how to have a good time. A Winnetka resident and mom to three teen girls, the writer and television personality’s new book, What The Fun?! 427 Simple Ways To Have Fantastic Family Fun is made for any family looking for a few ways to incorporate more giggles instead of grumps into their daily routine.
- MODERN LUXURY, NS

Local family-lifestyle expert Donna Bozzo just released a book filled with "427 simple ways to have fantastic family fun." Her ideas range from letting the kids wash the car to setting up a backyard carnival — with a tin can toss, dart balloon board and face painting.
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE

What the Fun?!: In her breakout book, Winnetka-based family lifestyle expert Donna Bozzo offers more than 400 ways to unearth the long-lost fun of family life, buried under busy schedules — think glow-in-the-dark bowling or indoor campouts....
- SPLASH MAGAZINE

Media personality and parenting expert Donna Bozzo knows a thing or two about family fun. From keeping kids entertained in the cold, to great Chicago staycations, to how to go “glamping” (aka glammed-up camping), Bozzo has been sharing her tips with Make It Better readers and families across the country with regular TV appearances on the Today show as well as countless local morning programs. Her new book, “What the Fun?! 427 Simple Ways to Have Fantastic Family Fun,” is packed with foolproof methods for injecting some extra fun into every day.
- MAKE IT BETTER MAGAZINE

In What The Fun, the mother-of-three notes a plethora of research demonstrating how infusing your days with fun makes people happier, healthier, and helps them live longer, as she lists no less than 427 family fun ideas to inspire. Sure, some of these things are pretty simple. But it’s often the most simple things we need to be reminded of and that mean the most to our kids.
- MOTHER MAG

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- NO PLACE LIKE HOME, a top review site

Here’s a question every parent wants answers to: What can I do to make my family happy? During 15 years of national television appearances, magazine features and on her website, lifestyle expert Donna Bozzo has shared thousands of easy and creative ways for families to put more fun and spontaneity in their life. Now, she has compiled many of the best of those ideas into her first book, released May 17, titled “What The Fun!? 427 Simple Ways To Find Fantastic Family Fun.”
- WINNETKA CURRENT

Getting Kids Used To A Stepmother
Parenting Expert Donna Bozzo suggests that finding ways to include children in the process of blending the family is the way toward acceptance of a new stepmom. “Include the kids in the wedding ceremony. Instead of a bride and groom cake topper, how about a full-family cake topper, with kids in tow?” says Bozzo, who suggests that families find fun ways to make things work going forward. “Think of your new blended family as a kind of soup where different members of the family add their own favorite ingredients to the pot. Like peanut butter and jelly sometimes the sum of two (or more) parts, is greater than the whole,” says Bozzo.
- KARS4KIDS

All Work and No Play? Easy Ways to Add More Fun to the Everyday
- BRIGHTLY

Get This Party Started
Make it personal, says Donna Bozzo, for memorable (birthday) parties go the old fashioned route.
--USA TODAY

What The Fun really hits the nail on the head about the loss of just plain fun in the family. So many family members are so preoccupied with technology or to-do lists or being so called "busy" that family fun has just kind of drifted away. Donna Bozzo does a great job to bring back that fun with plenty of examples on how to do it, young or older, She's got everyone covered. Bozzo has ideas for everyone.
- MICHIGAN MOM LIVING

What The Fun is a super fun book, and a huge help if you feel like you're running out of ideas to keep the kids occupied.
- BLESSED THEIR HEARTS MOM

“Bozzo points out that we can have fun most days of the week with kids, not just on vacations or birthdays, even if we forget sometimes.
- THE BOWED BOOKSHELF

Perhaps the greatest gift to give children is to raise them to be adults who are able to enjoy life. Bozzo’s WHAT THE Fun?! helps parents set the tenor of their life, in spite of their hectic schedules, and make wonderful family memories.
- MOTHER DAUGHTER & SON BOOK REVIEWS

"Anorexia of the soul": the pressure of perfection on young girls in today's world
- DESERET NEWS

6 Fun Relay Race Ideas for Kids
- CARE.COM

How Do You Know If It's Love At First Sight?
According to Match.com's Singles In America survey in 2014 of over 5,000 singles, 41 percent of men and 29 percent of women say they have experienced love at first sight.
- BUSTLE.COM

8 Awesome Outdoor Activities for Babies and Toddlers
- R ED TRICYCLE

Crain's Chicago Business

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