Posts by author: Shadra Bruce
I think all parents must go through a Rodney Dangerfield phase. Coincidentally, this phase starts about the time your kids become teens. At some point, your kids mutate from adoring little angels to some kind of alien species. And the problem is, you had a close and loving relationship with your adoring little angel, and [...]
In this day and age, we all have the “good touch/bad touch” talk with our kids when they are young. And, most of us grit our teeth and make it through the uncomfortable but necessary sex talk with our adolescents. I worry, though, that many parents either gloss over or complete skip the conversation about [...]
Thank you to our contributing author Shadra Bruce from www.igotmompower.com for today’s post. When I got my license, I was 15 years old. I was a straight A student. I was trustworthy and well behaved. But… the temptation to go places I shouldn’t be, or do things I shouldn’t do was more than I was [...]
Parent eSource contributor Shadra Bruce from I Got Mom Power Our two older boys have not given us the typical teen experiences most parents face. Derek didn’t drive, date, or have many interests beyond math, video games, and basketball. Kyle has Down syndrome. Kira, however, more than made up for her brothers’ lack of teen [...]