Overview
- On Thursday Fishel told John Battagliese on QVC+’s Cart Blanche that parenting often requires her to manage her own emotions before responding to her sons.
- She described a practice of self-regulation she calls 'self‑parenting,' which means pausing to identify what is triggering her before reacting to a child.
- Fishel said she routinely turns stressful moments into play to defuse meltdowns, offering the example of making a missing pajama half into a 'crazy pajama night.'
- Her approach is shaped by earlier struggles with 'mom guilt' after son Adler’s premature 2019 birth and by a 2024 breast cancer diagnosis and treatment that she says reframed self-care as essential.
- The comments are personal reflections shared in media appearances and interviews and are presented as practical parenting strategies rather than clinical guidance.