by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Jana Jeffery When my oldest daughter was 10 years old, she turned to me one day and while pinching her little tummy she says, “Mom, I need to lose weight. I’m getting fat.” I stopped mid-stride and said to her, “You are not fat. Not at all. Why do...
by Chris Wilcox | Chris Crossing, Let's Talk
View from the Dragonfly’s Back MomsGetReal Soul Feeder Chris Wilcox For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. If you’re a writer, it’s one of those must-haves because it has a way of making the insanity...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce At one point in your child’s life you were the source of all knowledge, and you could not possibly be wrong. Now your child is a teenager and you could not possibly be right. How are you supposed to raise a mature teen when they are...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomsGetReal Contributor Kristin Hackler “Wow, it’s chilly today. Don’t you think so, little guy? I’ll bet it’s in the mid fifties, maybe lower. What’s that? Is that a red bird? What do we call those red birds? A cardinal! And...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Weddings
For a couple in love, their wedding day is the most important day in their lives. It is the culmination of their dream and their togetherness as official and for life – that is, for most couples at least. Weddings are intimate occasions where only chosen guests...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, On Motherhood
Getting Real With Jana Jeffery Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror for the first time in the day, at 3pm, and realized that you didn’t just forget to put makeup on one eye, which happens more often than is comfortable to admit in mixed company, you forgot...
