re: Dads of daughters, I need some advice.

Thanks arse. This just made me risk waking mine up to go peek on her sleeping.

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My girl is turning 8 in a couple of days. It goes fast. In a blink of an eye she will be graduating high school.

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Mine just turned 8 and when she was much younger I heard a phrase that is so very true:

The days are long but the years are short.

My wife rejoices with her at every age but I have to admit, only to myself and other dads, that I miss the days of her being my little girl. Of course she'll always be my little girl but she's at a stage now where she's embarrassed of her parents in front of her peers - it's a rite of passage and at 58 I still remember feeling the same way and have gone back to my 80-some parent and apologized. She's 8 going on 15 now and I do so miss the toddler years... they were too damned short. I'm not saying the time now or the time to come are not worthwhile because there is no substitute for being a good father to a girl; but cherish the time you have now because it's fleeting and you won't see those days again. They'll be days and memories that you will often revisit in your memory forcing you to choke up and turn away so no one else sees the tears in your eyes.

Give it time. My daughters when very young wanted mom. By the time one +- they wanted to sit with dad, have dad read to them. Once they would talk they would tell mom go ask dad for the answer when mom knew the answer. If you are loving they will love when you are with them.

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but she's at a stage now where she's embarrassed of her parents in front of her peers

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At 8? Seems awfully young for that. 10+ I guess I can see that.

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However, I find myself kind of, I don’t know, sad would be the most succinct way to put it, that she’s growing up.

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There will come a day when you pick up your youngest child up for the last time... and one day maybe that child will have children that you will pick up. Do it right and you'll run out of time before you run out of babies to pick up.

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At 8? Seems awfully young for that. 10+ I guess I can see that.

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Maybe I don't know, as our only child I have nothing to compare with except we've all always heard that girls mature faster than boys.

when my younger daughter was almost 5 it hit me hard that her cutest best days were almost over. she was so fun and cute 3 to 4. it was so great when they were young. now they're teenagers and our family has fallen apart.

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My parents had 4 boys, all two years apart from one to the next. Hell they had two miscarriages somewhere in between too. So I’m alien to what it’s like growing up in a house with a teenage girl. I was hoping for a boy at first and still want one or two boys. But man this girl is just the best.

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My parents were divorced so I had many siblings and I was right in the middle. Teenage girls or at least mine it got a tad shaky 6th-8th grade, girls are mean at that age to other girls and there was some bullying issues. Overall it wasn’t too bad though, most of HS was a breeze. If there is an argument between wife and daughter stay out of it unless wife asks you to get involved

My girls kept their bedrooms immaculate, the bathroom on the other hand, holy cow it can get bad. 99% of my fussing at them through their entire lives is about the bathroom

Every stage and age will completely melt your heart. My one piece of advice is to always tuck her in and do all of the “extra” things she will eventually ask you to do in order to stall bedtime as she gets older.

My daughter is almost 4. Every night, we say prayers, play a game, sing a song and then she makes me lift her up to touch the stars (glow in the dark stars on the ceiling). After that, she calls me back into her room for “one more hug” about 3 times. It’s a 30 minute ordeal but I’m soaking up every second. One day, she’ll never ask for any of it.