I just sat in my kitchen reading Angelina Jolie’s New York Times article published this morning disclosing her preventative double mastectomy. Not in a long time have I read such an eloquent, heartfelt and touching article.

If you have not read it, here it is.

To the critics who claim she was too radical to remove both her breasts, to the critics who say she should have kept it private, and to the critics who fault her for having the money for the surgery (it’s thousands of dollars in the USA), I say you couldn’t be more wrong.

Good morning and Happy Monday! I hope that those that celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday did so with an abundance of love. Mother’s Day is by far, my favorite day of the year. It’s like one giant connection to a tribe of like-minded exhausted people and friends. I love it. I was spoiled by my 3 men with tons of love, and some GREAT cards.

This morning, I spoke about our new global Movement for the first time on tv. As the Weekly Parenting Correspondent on Global TV, each week I tackle a new parenting topic. Today, I had the opportunity to speak about our newly launched global Get Off The Fence Movement. The exciting part in all of this, is that parents too have been taking the Get Off The Fence pledge – to cook healthier meals for their families, read more to their children, become more patient parents, etc… It’s been a gift to hear about all the different OFF THE FENCE pledges people have been taking since we launched. My most recent pledge is to try and power down by 9pm. I’ve been doing pretty well, actually.