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Posted on 1/28/26 at 8:10 am to Tempratt
My daughter started college this year. It's hard but I know I did a good job and we have a great relationship. You just gotta trust them and let them grow up.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 8:17 am to geauxbrown
Dating was the toughest. I would wait up , in the breakfast room, reading the football or baseball rule book. One light on over the table. She would come in and say good night. One night she came to table and “Dad you don’t to wait for me each night” “Yes I do” “Then you don’t trust me.” “ It’s not you I don’t trust, It’s guys like me.”
To this day we have a special bond.
To this day we have a special bond.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 8:23 am to Auburn80
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You get to dance with her at her wedding. She will pick out a special song just for the two of you. Very cool. My daughter picked What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
Hopefully.
I walked my sister down the aisle and danced with her and gave the father's toast at her wedding because ours passed at age 56 to cancer.
I have two sons of my own with no intention of having more kids, so I won't have the opportunity to do those things for my daughter...I guess the one brightside is I did have the opportunity to do it once, but would have obviously rather had my father around to experience this with my sister.
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 8:57 am to Tempratt
Mine is only 2.5. I go through my phone and look at pictures of us and her and i get teary eyed now.. 
Posted on 1/28/26 at 8:59 am to Tempratt
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Pain. The kind that comes from teen daughter growing up.
is offset by the pride of seeing them grow up and become great young women.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:00 am to Tempratt
My teenage daughter sleeps over at her boyfriends house every weekend. I found it calms her down and Me and the wife dont have to deal with her Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday.
Shes a lot to handle.
Shes a lot to handle.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:06 am to Sunnyvale
I suppose there was a reason for dowries
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:46 am to MorbidTheClown
Agreed.
My daughter is my youngest,17 and honestly, still likes hanging with me. Woods, boat, or just random road trip, she's down for it. It is saddening to know those days are numbered, but I'm enjoying it for the time being. Never went through the "I hate you" phase.
My daughter is my youngest,17 and honestly, still likes hanging with me. Woods, boat, or just random road trip, she's down for it. It is saddening to know those days are numbered, but I'm enjoying it for the time being. Never went through the "I hate you" phase.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:52 am to Tempratt
I’m a pretty stoic dude. I’ve cried four times in the last 10 years. When I found out my mom had terminal cancer, when she died, and when my old man passed.
But seeing my daughter for the first time in her wedding dress was the worst. Prepare yourself my friend!
But seeing my daughter for the first time in her wedding dress was the worst. Prepare yourself my friend!
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:57 am to touchdownjeebus
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remind myself of this every day as I watch my 16yr old baby slowly leave my curated grasp and enter the real world.
I hope you zip your pants on your dick today.
And tomorrow.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 9:58 am to fr33manator
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I suppose there was a reason for dowries
Why do you say that.
Me and the WIFE. Made the decision after meeting the young man and his family. Its better for them to be together and have their "privacy" at our houses. Rather than on the street. At least she knows that if something goes wrong. The girl has support from either set of parents and she can immedielty say leave.
Shes not running wild on the street. Some of her friends have really made the "rounds" if you know what I mean.
I mean. Its not what I had in mind when I fathered her. But her mother was very convincing and her behavior is a lot more predicatble.
It was that or medication and the long term for medication just seemed like she would lead down the line of those weird freakes that get medicated and drift further and further away from reality.
Im not saying it is the ideal solution. But today with access to the interent, strangers, predators, Drugs and young teens running wild. We feel she has a better chance.
Plus we can have civil conversations again.
Does any of the OT do the same with their teenage daughters?
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:00 am to tiggah1981
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nothing i say is ever received.
don't you believe that for a second; it is received even if it's not acknowledged
Keep planting the seeds and watering them
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:14 am to Tempratt
My daughter & I were very tight and then she went thru a stage. Thankfully she's grown up & matured. She lives in Austin now & when she first moved it was gut wrenching but she's made a nice life out there & her fiance is a fantastic guy., intelligent, respectful & hard working.
I couldn't have asked or drawn up a better SIL. I know she's in good hands & that provides me comfort. I still miss her like crazy but I'm proud of her & don't worry anymore.
I couldn't have asked or drawn up a better SIL. I know she's in good hands & that provides me comfort. I still miss her like crazy but I'm proud of her & don't worry anymore.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 10:15 am
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:14 am to Tempratt
I have 4 boys, 3 of which are teenagers (oldest boy is 20)
If you want to trade
I also have 2 girls - my older one never gave me problems in her teenage years, the younger one is 10, so we will see
If you want to trade
I also have 2 girls - my older one never gave me problems in her teenage years, the younger one is 10, so we will see
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:29 am to This GUN for HIRE
seems like a good time to revisit this one
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:33 am to Tempratt
I have three now grown kids. Two boys one girl. Honestly my daughter was the most like me in a lot of things. Extremely competitive and a high achiever. She excelled in sports and was determined to be the best at everything she did. She got a college soccer scholarship. Now here is the challenging part she was the only one I could have a full blown argument with at six years old but why do you let her brothers do this and that and I can’t. It ended after 10 mins with a BECAUSE I AM YOUR DAD THAT’s WHY! lol. She did go through a period in her teens where the lying was too much but the threat of taking her off her soccer teams over came that obstacle. Last thing she was the only one that challenged me when I got to the point of whooping arse but she fell in line before it happened. Fast forward to current day she is a radiologist tech at Mayo Hospital and is a mother to my now 4 year old grandson and I would not change a thing. As a father stand your ground but listen when they want to talk and be supportive even sometimes when it’s 50/50 call on your part. Good luck.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:46 am to Tempratt
It does suck “losing” them when they make hormones. But if you have been a loving dad they will come back to you.
For years every Masters Sunday she’d jump in my lap to watch the green jacket ceremony. When she was 12 or 13 when I told her the ceremony was about to start and she rollled her eyes. Ouch.
Fast forward when she was 20. I asked her if she wanted to go to Houston for the weekend during her summer break to watch the Astros with me. I did plan a few activities she would like as well. She agreed to go and we had a great weekend.
I had no less than three people I met during that trip tell me that their daughter would never do anything like that with them.
For years every Masters Sunday she’d jump in my lap to watch the green jacket ceremony. When she was 12 or 13 when I told her the ceremony was about to start and she rollled her eyes. Ouch.
Fast forward when she was 20. I asked her if she wanted to go to Houston for the weekend during her summer break to watch the Astros with me. I did plan a few activities she would like as well. She agreed to go and we had a great weekend.
I had no less than three people I met during that trip tell me that their daughter would never do anything like that with them.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:49 am to Tempratt
I've got a 15 year old daughter. I miss when she was younger and my little buddy, but I love watching her navigate through life as a confident young lady. She's an excellent kid and while she seems to forget I exist at times, she will give me glimpses of the little girl who wouldn't let go of my hand for hours at a time.
If that's all I get for the rest of my life, I will die happy.
If that's all I get for the rest of my life, I will die happy.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 10:52 am to Tempratt
Is she a typical girly girl or more of a tomboy? Have you ever bonded over a farting contest? That will tell you. 
Anyway, good job raising your children, and I hope you are always close to them. I hope the man she marries does not come between your relationship with her an instead helps her nurture her relationship with her father.
Anyway, good job raising your children, and I hope you are always close to them. I hope the man she marries does not come between your relationship with her an instead helps her nurture her relationship with her father.
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