General Parenting

The Far Reaching Effects of Raising Grateful Children

Social relationships are filled with moments of giving and receiving. Gratitude is an important way that these relationships stay smooth. As parents, we are...

Deal Alert on Sam’s Club Memberships

This IS a deal alert: The annual Sam's Club membership deal has returned to Groupon! Even if you're not a bulk-shopping kind of family,...

Arrr you going to Pirate’s Revenge Haunted House?

I'd never taken my kids to a haunted house before. First Born used to get scared reading pages of books that had dark coloring on them,...

Hot Lunch or Sack Lunch?

This post is mainly crowd sourced information, and for that I thank the followers of my Facebook page, A Dad Influence. Here's the question I...

Amazon Deal Of The Day: Halloween Costumes are 50% Off!

Hurry, hurry: Amazon's Deal of the Day on today, Wednesday 10/7 is 50% off Halloween costumes! Deal is good on select costumes for men, women,...

Is a little effort too much to ask?

Over one hundred fourth grade girls stood impatiently at the starting line. It was the first cross country meet of the season. POW! When...

Yogisms for Parents

Yogi Berra was a baseball legend. He was also well-known for the things he said. Many of his wise words could directly be applied to...

Crust

Crust (noun) - Definition- "The despicable border that encircles and suffocates an otherwise perfectly normal piece of bread." How is there such a universal child...

#TerribleGiftsForA4YearOld

Trending hashtags on Twitter is not something I pay particularly close attention to, but every once in a while, one catches my eye and...

Parenting with a little help from Siri

Siri, the "personal assistant" on Apple's iPhone can be helpful to a parent in a variety of ways, but first, you need to make...

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