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2006-05-24 10:53 AM
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I have a 6 year old son and a 4 year old daughter. My son's gentle in nature so hopefully he will toughen up somewhat to keep his friends in line when it comes to thinking about dating his sister. My daughters a tom boy at times - so she'll slug any boy that tries anything on her or her brother that she doesn't like. Maybe with all of this tri training us mothers and fathers can challenge any prospective suiters to a swim/bike/run race just to keep them in line!


2006-05-24 10:59 AM
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MomX3 - 2006-05-24 11:09 AM
run4yrlif - 2006-05-24 10:35 AM

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Oh yeah, I know. Just sort of a sensitive topic for me: Blame myspace instead of accepting blame for the fact that your 14yo daughter feels the need to post half-naked pictures of herself on the internet to troll for sex. Mini rant over.

 

If my 14-year old ever decides to post half naked pictures of herself anywhere I'll know my parenting has gone horribly wrong somewhere.

That's all I'm sayin'.  

2006-05-24 11:00 AM
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Bluejack - 2006-05-24 10:41 AM I wonder if daughters who have such intimidating fathers don't ultimately end up being rebellious?

Nah...I'm sure that never happens.  

2006-05-24 11:09 AM
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re brothers being protective of sisters:

I have two older brothers. Love 'em. They're great. We get along awesomely (although we all hated each other -- and I mean HATED each other-- growing up, but whatever). Anyway, my brother Mike and I are very good friends, live in the same city, and will actually be roommates for the next few months or so. So you'd think he'd be protective of me, looking out for me, right? Well, at one point when I had started dating someone (actually, it was Stake, funny enough), I asked him "hey, want to meet this new guy I'm dating?". His response? "Nah ... you can make your own mistakes without needing me to validate them".

So much for protective older brothers!  

(for the record: he did meet Stake eventually, and he approved. Obviously.)

 

CalgaryRunner - 2006-05-24 11:53 AM I have a 6 year old son and a 4 year old daughter. My son's gentle in nature so hopefully he will toughen up somewhat to keep his friends in line when it comes to thinking about dating his sister. My daughters a tom boy at times - so she'll slug any boy that tries anything on her or her brother that she doesn't like. Maybe with all of this tri training us mothers and fathers can challenge any prospective suiters to a swim/bike/run race just to keep them in line!

2006-05-24 11:29 AM
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2006-05-24 2:47 PM
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My worst date story was when I went to pick up a date in high school and the father of said girl said he was going to join us on the date.  Me being an all knowing 18 yr old and trying to be funny said "I fly, you buy".  Needless to say he did not find it amusing and the date ended there.  Never understood why he got so mad until I had a daughter of my own.  Thinking back he should have pummeled me on principle alone.



2006-05-24 2:50 PM
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jszat - 2006-05-24 10:51 AM In all seriousness, I have seen many examples of kids sheltered a little too much growing up that go off the deep end in college, and I mean the deep end.  So the challenge is really finding balance between showing them right and wrong without suffocating them so they resent you and want to act idiotic just out of spite, or something like that.

That's where I want to thank my parents. There are some rules in place that do not get broken, at the same time there places where there are few (if any) "rules". I'm thankful I'm not being suffocated and that has established a huge level of trust (re: lack of  rules part of last sentence).

So far, I haven't been to juvie....yet

2006-05-24 3:25 PM
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jszat - 2006-05-24 9:51 AM In all seriousness, I have seen many examples of kids sheltered a little too much growing up that go off the deep end in college, and I mean the deep end.  So the challenge is really finding balance between showing them right and wrong without suffocating them so they resent you and want to act idiotic just out of spite, or something like that.

My experience, and I'm only speaking for myself but others can chime in if they agree, is that there's a big difference between general sheltering of kids (boys and girls) and the special protectiveness of a father towards his daughter. 

jszat - I agree with you about not sheltering kids too much, but in a lot of cases of father/daughter protectiveness the girls don't take the father's threats/comments that seriously anyway.  The attitude is for the boys.  As long as they realize the only thing keeping the psychotic madman from their throat is our daughter's benevolence.  Keep her happy, and I'm happy, sort of.

2006-05-24 4:02 PM
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Chippy - 2006-05-24 12:09 PM

... my brother Mike and I are very good friends, live in the same city, and will actually be roommates for the next few months or so. So you'd think he'd be protective of me, looking out for me, right? Well, at one point when I had started dating someone (actually, it was Stake, funny enough), I asked him "hey, want to meet this new guy I'm dating?". His response? "Nah ... you can make your own mistakes without needing me to validate them".

So much for protective older brothers!



He sounds like me. Of course, my sister would have never asked me to meet anyone she ever dated. We are oil and water, to this day.
2006-05-24 4:43 PM
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The funniest thing about Stake's post, is that I can believe EVERY word coming from him....
2006-05-25 12:28 PM
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jldicarlo - 2006-05-24 5:43 PM

The funniest thing about Stake's post, is that I can believe EVERY word coming from him....

You say the sweetest things



2006-05-25 12:30 PM
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Stake - 2006-05-25 11:28 AM

You say the sweetest things

Aw, shucks.

Since I was so sweet can you take my quote out of your sig line?

2006-05-25 12:36 PM
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jldicarlo - 2006-05-25 1:30 PM
Stake - 2006-05-25 11:28 AM

You say the sweetest things

Aw, shucks.

Since I was so sweet can you take my quote out of your sig line?

*gasp*

No.

Smootch.

(I love that quote.  It makes me smile)

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