by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce From the advent of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) to our current sorry state in education, many school districts are unable to meet the requirements of the demands placed on them. In order to improve reading scores with required...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Every single day from kindergarten through sixth grade, Kira wanted a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. She loved her PBJ. The PBJ is standard kid fare, but if your children’s lunch boxes are starting to come home from...
by Shadra Bruce | Health, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce For those of you not lucky enough to have gone under the knife and had all your girly parts removed in one fell swoop, causing an immediate onset of menopause in all its glory, it will likely sneak up on you somewhere in your mid-40s if...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Some of the research I’ve done on meditation has convinced me that it holds one of the keys to achieving better health and better pain management without turning to pharmaceuticals. The power of the mind is often discussed, but I...
by Shadra Bruce | Health, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce I’d love to believe the ads I see on TV about fat just melting away with a special pill or diet, but the truth is, we lose fat when we burn more calories each day than we consume, and we burn more calories than we consume when we...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Why do we put juice boxes in our kids’ lunches? Those perfectly-shaped containers that fit next to the pbj and don’t spill or leak…how can you resist? It even comes with its own straw! While fruit juice (100%, not the...
by Shadra Bruce | Healthy Eating, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce One of the easiest health changes you can make is to incorporate healthy cooking into your life. Healthy cooking does not have to be difficult or expensive. In fact, there are some relatively simple changes you can make to your everyday...
by Shadra Bruce | Healthy Eating, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Do you ever end up eating more than you should because you simply can’t come up with good ideas for meals? Do you ever throw your hands up and head to the nearest drive-through because you’re uninspired about what to cook?...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Stress Management
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce The short version of my advice for surviving the kids being home on break is to BUY A LOT OF WINE. Since that won’t always solve the problem – say it’s 9am or you’ve already had three glasses, then you have to...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Toddlers
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce From the moment we find out we are going to have a baby, we begin to imagine what our child will be like; we wonder about features and personality traits; we worry about potential challenges. Until we’re done counting fingers and...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce You can’t escape it. The minute your kids begin school, they realize how much you’ve been holding out on them. Jimmy has a cooler bike; Alice has more clothes; everyone is bringing lunchables to school instead of peanut...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce School hot lunch may have improved since we were in school, but there are still far too many days when the cafeteria is serving “leftover surprise,” that will be more likely to end up in the cafeteria trash can than your...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce How often have you dreamed of change but decided it was too hard – or that you could only start working for the change on Mondays or the first of the month? Change doesn’t happen because we think about it; it happens because...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce The economy might be getting better, or we might all fall right off the fiscal cliff. While the best approach to surviving tough times is to live more simply, spend less, and learn to reuse and recycle what you have, sometimes you just...
by Shadra Bruce | Health, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Remember the movie from 2000 starring Haley Joel Osment called “Pay It Forward”? The idea in the movie – take a good deed and pay it forward to three people – is such a wonderful idea. Sometimes, around the...
