by Kira Hazledine | Healthy Eating, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine A lot of mom rants have been popping up in my news feed about how damaging it is to use food as a reward system. Leads to unhealthy habits and makes junk foods “taboo” and “too desirable” or whatever. Apparently, it doesn’t teach...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Halloween is a favorite holiday for kids of all ages. (Yes, this means giving the teenage trick-or-treaters candy, too). Trick-or-treating delights kids of all ages (including the young at heart). It can be stressful if you wait until...
by Kira Hazledine | Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine There are a lot of challenges when it comes to parenting. There are days when my ability to function is in the toilet and my child eats a lot of goldfish and string cheese. There are other moments when I feel like a complete failure...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce My mom would have turned 68 this month. It’s hard for me to even imagine her at that age. She died two weeks after my 35th birthday in 2006. She was 55. Cancer. For many years, my grief was almost unbearable, but life being what it...
by Kira Hazledine | Family, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Halloween is for all ages, right? That’s what everyone says. But apparently, according to sanctimonious buttheads, trick-or-treating is only for young children. Who decided that? Where is that rule written? Personally, I’ve never seen...
by Kira Hazledine | Parenting
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine With my first child, I was desperate for any sign of progression by the time I had hit 36 weeks. I wasn’t overly uncomfortable, I was just excited to meet my first baby! So when they asked if I wanted to do weekly cervix checks, I...
