by Shadra Bruce | Nov 13, 2018 | Parenting, Resolving Conflict, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce As a stay-at-home mom turned work-at-home business owner, I don’t meet a lot of people. Since Dave works from home, too, it’s difficult for us to make new friends. The only people who come to our door that we don’t know...
by Kira Hazledine | Oct 6, 2018 | 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 Shadra Bruce | Sep 29, 2018 | Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce After being a parent for 20+ years, I can tell you that it’s OK to get tired. Motherhood is a full-time job, and when you’re balancing the needs of multiple people for that many years, you can get a little burnt out. They say the...
by Shadra Bruce | Sep 25, 2018 | Adult Children, Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Do you have all the answers? If you don’t, why should your kids? The career I chose at 18 is not anything close to the career and business I have built today. But I grew up with a dad who got a job when he was 18 and stayed in the...
by Shadra Bruce | Sep 18, 2018 | Parenting, Sponsored Content, Teens and Tweens
This post is sponsored by Mirum, but opinions expressed are my own. Getting Real with Shadra Bruce We talk so often about raising strong girls and raising girls with high self-esteem, but we don’t often talk about how important it is to raise confidant sons who...
by Shadra Bruce | Sep 14, 2018 | Adult Children, Parenting, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Letting your kids fail is good parenting. There are risks in every decision. As moms, we encourage our children to try and try again, but sometimes it’s easy to skim over what failing teaches us. Sometimes it’s not as simple as getting...
