by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
MomsGetReal Contributor Tonia Caselman Empathy is the ability to (1) read and understand another’s emotional cues, (2) personally experience some of that person’s feelings, and (3) express that understanding verbally and/or behaviorally. It is much more than simply...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Packing lunches for your children is a great way to take care of them when they’re away from home. They get something familiar to eat – something you know they’ll like so you won’t have to worry about them starving all...
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...
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...
