by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Special Needs
by Shadra Bruce It’s spring. The birds are chirping, the crocuses are popping up. It’s time to start thinking about gardening and traveling and sunblock. It’s also the time of year when those parents who have special needs kids begin the process of...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real With Amy Kelly Prom is a milestone event in every teenager’s life. It’s the last big party where everyone will be all together before parting ways for college, the military or wherever else life takes them. Both parents and teens want the night to be...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Let's Talk, Toddlers
Getting Real With Veronica Ibarra One of the many skills we develop as mothers is the extraordinary ability to hear our children call for us, and know by the sound that they are in need. This acutely sensitive ability to attune to our children is not necessarily...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Stepparenting
We’re thrilled to welcome our newest Getting Real With, Elizabeth Sanchez. The cliché goes that “eyes are windows to the soul” and the state in Mexico that my husband is from is known for just that: the people have amazing eyes. My husband’s eyes definitely...
by Shadra Bruce | Kid Safety
On APRIL 30, 2011 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, most communities around the nation will be hosting national prescription drug take back days. This initiative is a crucial way to help prevent drug abuse. According to The Partnership for a Drug Free America, more than...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
by Getting Real With Kathy Winn I should preface this by saying I’m NOT a doctor. Or a nurse. Or even have my CPR certification up to date (although that one IS on the to-do list). I have no medical training whatsoever. But I DO work with doctors everyday...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Let's Talk, Parenting
Getting Real With Veronica Ibarra Having been a psychology major in college, I took a class on child development. The textbook begins with fetal development and goes on from there. When I became pregnant with my first child that was the first book I turned to as it...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Stress Management
Friends are important in everyone’s life but I think it is especially important for women to have friends to help put things that happen in our lives in perspective. We need to feel connected and have someone to commiserate with about life. Talking with close friends...
by Shadra Bruce | Making a Difference
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Recently, my husband and I decided to go bottle free. I’m not talking about baby bottles, we’ve been free of those for a couple of years now, I’m talking about bottled water. There’s been a push on lately to stop buying bottled water...
by Shadra Bruce | Stepparenting
by Shadra Bruce Building a successful blended family can be a very difficult process for everyone involved. I often suggest that stepparents need to talk to their spouses – that open communication is the best path to resolution – as often as possible. However, when...
by Jennifer Poole | Book Reviews
Getting Real With Jennifer Poole If you or someone close to you has ever suffered from an eating disorder or even just struggled with yo-yo dieting then you should read the book Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain. I have always been a fan of Portia and...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Doing it Alone, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Sara Haley You hear it a lot, and you think it on a daily basis: There are never enough hours in a day. As much as everyone believes this, the same is true especially for us single moms. And what happens to us over time as we try and balance work,...
by Shadra Bruce | Crafts with Kids
The great thing about this kid-friendly craft is that it can be as simple or as extravagant as you choose to make it, and all you really need are plain t-shirts in any color. T-shirts make great gifts and can also be a fun project. This is a fun and easy – and...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Breastfeeding, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Veronica Ibarra I am nearing the end of the weaning process with my son who is now 2 and ¾ years old. I breastfed his older sister till she was about the same age, give or take a month. It is a bittersweet time for me as I think about the bonding...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Lisa Van De Graaff In Oriental Medicine’s Five-Element Theory, it is the time of Wood. Wood is our inner planner and decision maker. When we feel the desire to plan our summer garden, sketch our dream home, make a ‘to do’ list, lay...
