Raising My Girls

The love a little girl has for her daddy is something unique in, and of, itself.  The love of a little girl for her daddy is something that mommy will never experience.  Little girls look up to their daddy as their protector; even if he’s never had to do anything to really required protecting.

I have three little girls.  They each love their daddy in their own way, and with their current stage of life being taken into consideration. 

Our oldest is nearly 12 years old.  She’s almost a teenager, has hit puberty, and is more worried about her friends and boyfriend than she is about her parents.  She seems to always be on the phone, or computer, or watching television, or with a book in her hands.  But when she does offer up her valuable time to her family, she adores the attention she gets from her daddy.  She tells him stories about her day at school.  She shares her thoughts on her I.Q. test results.  And, of course, she tattle-tells on her younger sisters.  LOL!  But you can tell that this child loves her daddy.

Our middle daughter is 8 years old.  She likes to think that she’s as old as her big sister.  She hates cleaning her room.  She enjoys tormenting her little sister.  And loves to ignore and/or argue about anything that her father and I tell her to do, or not to do.  But when her daddy sits down and has some one-on-one time with her (that does not involve disciplinary actions, lol), that child acts like there’s no one else in the world.

Now our youngest is only 3 years old.  She thinks her daddy hung the moon and developed the telescope to show it to her.  He’s her daddy; a word that means HERO in her eyes.  She runs to the front door anything she hears his car pull up in the driveway.  She’ll stand right by that door until he walks in.  She shouts, “Daddy! You’re home!” and hugs his legs tightly.  Her little chubby faces lights up with the love she has for him.  She’ll climb up in his lap and have complete conversations about how she missed him allllllll day and how mean ole mommy only let her get three books at the library that day.  LOL!

There is no one else in the world like a little girl’s daddy.  Sure, mommy is great.  Mommy kisses away the boo-boos and spends all day baking goodies.  But there’s no one like daddy in the eyes of the little girls who love him the most.

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