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...