by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Let's Talk, Special Needs
Getting Real With Veronica Ibarra Every mother knows about the mommy trenches, even if she does not use that term. The mommy trenches are where all the hard work of motherhood takes place. It’s where the dishes and laundry constantly need doing no matter how much...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Doing it Alone, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Sara Haley I was married once. It didn’t work out. It just doesn’t always work out if both people aren’t committed to fixing what’s broken. I decided to cut my losses and leave. And I couldn’t be happier. When people think of single moms, they often...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Toddlers
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce From the moment your child is born, there is a little part of you that is counting down to that magic second birthday. From every account, birthday number two spells doom and terror in your household. The terrible twos don’t just...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce From the advent of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) to our current sorry state in education, many school districts are unable to meet the requirements of the demands placed on them. In order to improve reading scores with required...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Every single day from kindergarten through sixth grade, Kira wanted a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. She loved her PBJ. The PBJ is standard kid fare, but if your children’s lunch boxes are starting to come home from...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Why do we put juice boxes in our kids’ lunches? Those perfectly-shaped containers that fit next to the pbj and don’t spill or leak…how can you resist? It even comes with its own straw! While fruit juice (100%, not the...
