by Shadra Bruce | 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 | Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce College isn’t right for everyone. Sometimes it isn’t right because it’s the wrong college, but sometimes it’s the structure, the cost, or the ridiculous number of pointless classes you have to take to pad the...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce When our son was six, he was labeled gifted. He had tested in the 99th percentile on some exam and had an IQ of 126, so the school said he was gifted. We started suspecting he was a fast learner – most IQ tests not only measure...
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...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Remember Amy Chua, the “Tiger Mom?” I’m not a Tiger Mom. If anything, I might be considered the extreme opposite. Amy Chua and I do have one thing in common, though: We both want what is best for our children. The...