Pete Gilbert

Even though our oldest is only in the 4th grade, my wife and I have already started thinking about college for our kids. We've done...

No matter what, every day I find myself saying these six things to my kids.   1. “You are smart.” Plenty of other people will tell them...

Growing up, at 8:30am on a Saturday morning, you could find me sitting cross legged on the floor, wearing my favorite baseball pajamas, staring...

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,...

Drive your own car. There's not a worse way to start a field trip, than sitting on a school bus with two dozen five...

I'm not going to lie, even though it's only been open for a couple of weeks, I've already been to the Teenage Mutant Ninja...

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...

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

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