by Shadra Bruce | Education
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Well, that decade went quickly! We’re back in college financial planning phase again. Almost 10 years ago, Kira graduated from high school, setting us down the path of FAFSAs, scholarships, and sticker shock at the cost of...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting, Teens and Tweens, Toddlers
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce By the time our youngest daughter, Anika, was 3, she was a fashion queen. She was a confident and happy little girl who liked to make a statement. She wore hats—a baseball cap to the side, or a flowery concoction, or even a winter cap...
by Shadra Bruce | Kid Safety, Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Every time I accidentally get exposed to the news – local or national – I hear about the drug epidemic. Opioids are killing people in record numbers. Kids and adults alike are addicted to prescription pain killers, and...
by Kira Hazledine | Pregnancy and Your Newborn, Travel
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Pregnancy is no reason to not travel! Especially with babymoons becoming popular these days. (Like a honeymoon, but a vacation before the baby is born). There are extra precautions that you want to take as a pregnant lady traveling,...
by Kira Hazledine | Breastfeeding, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine It was one of the first questions at my initial OB appointment. “Were you relying on breastfeeding as birth control?” Oh my goodness. Absolutely not. We would not be rolling the dice like that uninformed. Not that we...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce During our oldest son’s junior year in high school, he decided to look into military service as an option after graduation. Reports of young men and women dying in service were on the news regularly. However, we had always tried to teach...
