by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce As a parent, you’ve probably daydreamed about your noisy, rebellious child growing up and leaving home, yet also had nightmares about when that time would actually come. The transition from full-blown parenting to only a call or...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
My husband and I are raising five children together. Three are his from a previous marriage and two that we’ve added to the family. I’ve been Mom to all five for so long that we no longer really think of the older kids as “his” and both of us were equally pained when...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Our 21-year old daughter is moving to Long Island for the summer. On the one hand, we think she’s crazy to spend every drop of her money to live in the most expensive place in New York for three months. On the other hand,...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
MomsGetReal™ Contribtor Belinda Hulin The gumbo had just started simmering when my cell phone rang. The name on the readout came as a surprise: My son’s ex-girlfriend. I hadn’t seen or spoken to her in a couple of months and I’ll admit, I felt a little surge of...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
Dave and I don’t get out much, but have our routines that give us the “us” time we need. We get up at 5 for a cup of coffee together before we have to get the kids going for school. We send the kids to their bedrooms at 8 to get some time on our own...
