Solid Stories with Gil: How knowing how to read changed my mind about gang life.

As a parent you need to create hobbies you can do with your kids that you can carry on into their teens and adulthood. Wanting to spend time with your kids will always be important, but it only gets harder as they become adults themselves. That’s why it’s so important to start adult hobbies with them, when they are young!

Today is a very special day, my wife’s birthday! She has been such a blessing in my life and has taught me so much about what true love means.

Your biggest weakness can be your biggest strength and your biggest strength can be your biggest weakness.

Trauma is a blessing. We were meant to go through ours so we can learn how to heal ourselves and then teach others to do the same.

We are only in this world for a short period of time, we should be documenting as much of our lives as we can so that our future generations will know who they came from. Wouldn’t you love to know more about the family members that came before you?

I respond to a question I got from TikTok about strategies to expose your kids to the world outside their home. Our children won’t stay kids forever and if we want them to grow up into confident adults we have to get them ready for the outside world.

This one’s from before I started posting my morning thoughts to podcast form. It’s about how I felt during the first few days of making a decision to push myself out of the comfortable rut I found myself in.

Jumped in at 15, and started to change my ways when I became a father at 17. Yet I was still holding on to my old life style. It wasn’t until in my 20’s I was confronted with a mandatory decision I had to make. This story is about how knowing how to read helped me make that final decision.

All the way from the East Coast! Losing track of time. Doing my best to stick to the routine!!! Love all the exploration Wifey and I are doing.

Routine…it’s all about the routine!!! Heading out to New York tonight on the red eye follow our trip on my IG @regaldogilbert