Comments on: 10 Rules For Dating My Daughter… http://loscuatroojos.com/2008/05/04/10-rules-for-dating-my-daughter/ Some Days You're The Dog... Some Days You're The Hydrant. Fri, 03 Jan 2014 19:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: TheFourEyes http://loscuatroojos.com/2008/05/04/10-rules-for-dating-my-daughter/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Mon, 05 May 2008 06:22:29 +0000 http://loscuatroojos.com/2008/05/04/10-rules-for-dating-my-daughter/#comment-1862 Hey Doc!
Thanks for the comment… I didn’t dream this up…But I can assure you that there are more than one of his points that I take strongly to heart… Not that I don’t agree wih you… If you can’t talk to your kid like an adult… you’re asking for trouble… That said… I was a horrible disgusting hound of a teenage boy that quite successfully talked many a man’s teenage daughter out of her panties… And not because I loved them. I’m walking a narrow path between teaching my daughter how to be a loving feeling person…Yet to be aware that teenage boys are by and large scheming little buggers that just want to jump her bones… Keeping my own shenanigans in mind… i know that she’s going to need some help… To wit… I’ve had my shotgun since she was six months old… I like to clean it… I’ve got lots of shovels …Unfortunately… I don’t have the five acres out back… But I do have 600 pounds of hound in the back yard… And a wood chipper… Boys that come around get the old growl right up front… Then they get invited in… That’s when the fun starts…My daughter thinks it’s hilarious… For now.. she’s content to let old dad be a protective old bear… Later… We’ll see… But I’m willing to bet she won’t feel the need to hide her feelings from me.

]]> By: DoctorFact http://loscuatroojos.com/2008/05/04/10-rules-for-dating-my-daughter/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:55:24 +0000 http://loscuatroojos.com/2008/05/04/10-rules-for-dating-my-daughter/#comment-1861 It would be kind, I suppose, to imagine that you were speaking ironically with rants like this.

You need to face the facts, as in “The Facts of Life”. Your daughter is awash in a sea of hormones, as are her dates.

Copulation is a biological imperative, as it leads to procreation. This is nature’s way.

The more you fight it, or try some power trip on your daughter, the more likely she is to go off and get knocked up, just to spite you. When you realize the truth of this, you can start to speak to your daughter as a young adult, that is, respectfully, and perhaps share some of your acquired wisdom with her, and break the cycle of the forbidden.

Believe me, I have been in your situation. You can go ahead with your present approach, and risk permanent, or at least long term, alienation from one of the people you most love. Or, you can act like a grown-up, instead of thinking that in some way you own your daughter and her maidenhead.

It’s not like you seriously believe she is a candidate for lifelong celibacy–or do you?

You may think my response is entirely too serious minded. So be it. If you can pause for five minutes and disengage from thinking that you own her virginity, you and she can establish a life long positive relationship.

Good luck to you, and her.

DoctorFact

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