My daughter is leaving childhood, and it sucks

[CleveTown™]

she's a little over 7 now and it's not better than when she was younger. Her friends are becoming very important, she's more stubborn, etc. I wish she would have stayed 4-6 forever.

[LNS]

It’s not a bad thing. My oldest is 10 and it’s awesome how much more self reliant she is. And TBH the smarter she gets the better our conversations are.

In your case though your daughter is probably your best friend out there, so I could see why it’d bother you that she’s trying to branch out more.

[Bush4Ever.]

You should be happy your daughter is forming social bonds and making friends. It's not about you.

That's one thing I was worried about for my oldest, since I'm not exactly a social butterfly and had tons of social anxiety when I was younger...luckily it seems like her mother's genes are winning out over mine in that facet of life.

[LeBronMonsterDunk]

Yang Galbo in a few years.

[Bartman]

It’s not a bad thing. My oldest is 10 and it’s awesome how much more self reliant she is. And TBH the smarter she gets the better our conversations are.

In your case though your daughter is probably your best friend out there, so I could see why it’d bother you that she’s trying to branch out more.

Sounds like more time for you to smoke pot since your daughter is branching out on her own. Do you think since she's older and independent she'll want to know who her real father is?

[LNS]

It’s not a bad thing. My oldest is 10 and it’s awesome how much more self reliant she is. And TBH the smarter she gets the better our conversations are.

In your case though your daughter is probably your best friend out there, so I could see why it’d bother you that she’s trying to branch out more.

Sounds like more time for you to smoke pot since your daughter is branching out on her own. Do you think since she's older and independent she'll want to know who her real father is?

This is a thread for fathers, limp dick. See yourself out.

[Kingcarl24]

I’ve kind of learned to love all the different stages of my girls. I’m trying to enjoy it now because I already know it’s gonna suck when we hit the teenager stage and hormones get that much crazier.

[manchild98]

I’ve kind of learned to love all the different stages of my girls. I’m trying to enjoy it now because I already know it’s gonna suck when we hit the teenager stage and hormones get that much crazier.

I have an older sister. From age 12-18 it seemed all she and my did was argue and yell at each other. Everything was great once she got older but that stage for girls seems even worse than it is for boys.

My son is 3.5 and he already has a smart mouth. I'm too old school for this new school parenting. He's still too young but I have to remind myself not to knock his head off.....yet.

[Kingcarl24]

I’ve kind of learned to love all the different stages of my girls. I’m trying to enjoy it now because I already know it’s gonna suck when we hit the teenager stage and hormones get that much crazier.

I have an older sister. From age 12-18 it seemed all she and my did was argue and yell at each other. Everything was great once she got older but that stage for girls seems even worse than it is for boys.

My son is 3.5 and he already has a smart mouth. I'm too old school for this new school parenting. He's still too young but I have to remind myself not to knock his head off.....yet.

My sister and her family recently moved closer to me. She has two older boys and two younger girls. She was talking to me the other day and told me that she didn't know how I do it with only girls. According to her, boys are WAY easier to raise than girls.

There's just so much emotion all the time in my house. Take last night for example. My two youngest were bathing together and the older one did something that made the younger mad. (I think she took a toy from her). The younger did this blood curdling scream at the top of her lungs. I went in and told the younger that she needed to get out of the tub so she could calm down and get away from her sister that was being mean. The younger one got mad at me and started screaming at me with that same scream. I grounded her from electronics for a day and she just lost it. I just sat with her as she screamed and waited for the tantrum to pass. When it did, she was laughing and hugging and kissing me and telling me she was sorry.

Such a freakin roller coaster all the time in our house.

[LNS]

I’ve kind of learned to love all the different stages of my girls. I’m trying to enjoy it now because I already know it’s gonna suck when we hit the teenager stage and hormones get that much crazier.

I have an older sister. From age 12-18 it seemed all she and my did was argue and yell at each other. Everything was great once she got older but that stage for girls seems even worse than it is for boys.

My son is 3.5 and he already has a smart mouth. I'm too old school for this new school parenting. He's still too young but I have to remind myself not to knock his head off.....yet.

My sister and her family recently moved closer to me. She has two older boys and two younger girls. She was talking to me the other day and told me that she didn't know how I do it with only girls. According to her, boys are WAY easier to raise than girls.

There's just so much emotion all the time in my house. Take last night for example. My two youngest were bathing together and the older one did something that made the younger mad. (I think she took a toy from her). The younger did this blood curdling scream at the top of her lungs. I went in and told the younger that she needed to get out of the tub so she could calm down and get away from her sister that was being mean. The younger one got mad at me and started screaming at me with that same scream. I grounded her from electronics for a day and she just lost it. I just sat with her as she screamed and waited for the tantrum to pass. When it did, she was laughing and hugging and kissing me and telling me she was sorry.

Such a freakin roller coaster all the time in our house.

Geez you really are a patient man. When one of my daughters starts wigging out over something like that I’ll throw out a “Hey! Knock your shit off!” and 9/10 times it calms them down.

[manchild98]

I’ve kind of learned to love all the different stages of my girls. I’m trying to enjoy it now because I already know it’s gonna suck when we hit the teenager stage and hormones get that much crazier.

I have an older sister. From age 12-18 it seemed all she and my did was argue and yell at each other. Everything was great once she got older but that stage for girls seems even worse than it is for boys.

My son is 3.5 and he already has a smart mouth. I'm too old school for this new school parenting. He's still too young but I have to remind myself not to knock his head off.....yet.

My sister and her family recently moved closer to me. She has two older boys and two younger girls. She was talking to me the other day and told me that she didn't know how I do it with only girls. According to her, boys are WAY easier to raise than girls.

There's just so much emotion all the time in my house. Take last night for example. My two youngest were bathing together and the older one did something that made the younger mad. (I think she took a toy from her). The younger did this blood curdling scream at the top of her lungs. I went in and told the younger that she needed to get out of the tub so she could calm down and get away from her sister that was being mean. The younger one got mad at me and started screaming at me with that same scream. I grounded her from electronics for a day and she just lost it. I just sat with her as she screamed and waited for the tantrum to pass. When it did, she was laughing and hugging and kissing me and telling me she was sorry.

Such a freakin roller coaster all the time in our house.

I know I'm harder on my son because I know what it's like to be a boy. My wife coddles him much more. If we had a daughter, it would be the reverse. My wife would be tougher on her and I'd probably coddle her more.

I don't have good kid patience and I've always known that about myself. So it's tough when my son is crying and carrying on and freaking out over the dumbest little thing. I try and remind myself that although he understands what we want him to do he just can't control all of his emotions yet at this age....which then usually results in me yelling at my wife instead for trying to instantly comfort him. It's all just natural kid behavior but I'm not patient enough at dealing with those episodes. I wish I was.

[Kingcarl24]

I have an older sister. From age 12-18 it seemed all she and my did was argue and yell at each other. Everything was great once she got older but that stage for girls seems even worse than it is for boys.

My son is 3.5 and he already has a smart mouth. I'm too old school for this new school parenting. He's still too young but I have to remind myself not to knock his head off.....yet.

My sister and her family recently moved closer to me. She has two older boys and two younger girls. She was talking to me the other day and told me that she didn't know how I do it with only girls. According to her, boys are WAY easier to raise than girls.

There's just so much emotion all the time in my house. Take last night for example. My two youngest were bathing together and the older one did something that made the younger mad. (I think she took a toy from her). The younger did this blood curdling scream at the top of her lungs. I went in and told the younger that she needed to get out of the tub so she could calm down and get away from her sister that was being mean. The younger one got mad at me and started screaming at me with that same scream. I grounded her from electronics for a day and she just lost it. I just sat with her as she screamed and waited for the tantrum to pass. When it did, she was laughing and hugging and kissing me and telling me she was sorry.

Such a freakin roller coaster all the time in our house.

Geez you really are a patient man. When one of my daughters starts wigging out over something like that I’ll throw out a “Hey! Knock your shit off!” and 9/10 times it calms them down.

Oh I wish I could say I'm super patient with my kids. I sat there and listened to her scream because I had lost my shit the night before when my 7 year old decided not to sleep from 2am to 4:30am.

I have zero tolerance for whining. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[kobeunderbite]

Little Jenna is 7? Man, time flies. Before you know it you'll be worrying about all of her little boyfriends

[Shill Jackson]

My sister and her family recently moved closer to me. She has two older boys and two younger girls. She was talking to me the other day and told me that she didn't know how I do it with only girls. According to her, boys are WAY easier to raise than girls.

There's just so much emotion all the time in my house. Take last night for example. My two youngest were bathing together and the older one did something that made the younger mad. (I think she took a toy from her). The younger did this blood curdling scream at the top of her lungs. I went in and told the younger that she needed to get out of the tub so she could calm down and get away from her sister that was being mean. The younger one got mad at me and started screaming at me with that same scream. I grounded her from electronics for a day and she just lost it. I just sat with her as she screamed and waited for the tantrum to pass. When it did, she was laughing and hugging and kissing me and telling me she was sorry.

Such a freakin roller coaster all the time in our house.

Geez you really are a patient man. When one of my daughters starts wigging out over something like that I’ll throw out a “Hey! Knock your shit off!” and 9/10 times it calms them down.

Oh I wish I could say I'm super patient with my kids. I sat there and listened to her scream because I had lost my shit the night before when my 7 year old decided not to sleep from 2am to 4:30am.

I have zero tolerance for whining. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I'd throw out the time out corner option - 1 minute per year of age. Feet on the ground, hands behind back, nose facing the corner. If they turn around to look, the time gets reset. They hate it.

[Kingcarl24]

Geez you really are a patient man. When one of my daughters starts wigging out over something like that I’ll throw out a “Hey! Knock your shit off!” and 9/10 times it calms them down.

Oh I wish I could say I'm super patient with my kids. I sat there and listened to her scream because I had lost my shit the night before when my 7 year old decided not to sleep from 2am to 4:30am.

I have zero tolerance for whining. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I'd throw out the time out corner option - 1 minute per year of age. Feet on the ground, hands behind back, nose facing the corner. If they turn around to look, the time gets reset. They hate it.

Done it. It worked great on my oldest. Did not work on my other two. Electronic restrictions work the best. They really turn around when we threaten that.

[manchild98]

Oh I wish I could say I'm super patient with my kids. I sat there and listened to her scream because I had lost my shit the night before when my 7 year old decided not to sleep from 2am to 4:30am.

I have zero tolerance for whining. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I'd throw out the time out corner option - 1 minute per year of age. Feet on the ground, hands behind back, nose facing the corner. If they turn around to look, the time gets reset. They hate it.

Done it. It worked great on my oldest. Did not work on my other two. Electronic restrictions work the best. They really turn around when we threaten that.

The only punishment that worked on me as a kid was writing sentences. My mom would make me write like 500 sentences.. If I did it again it would be 600 sentences. Once I finished my punishment was over and I could go back outside. I absolutely hated writing them. Takes a long time, your hand hurts, etc. From a parent's perspective it keeps your kid quite for a few hours.

[LookAway]

Yang Galbo in a few years.

I had to look that up. That is disgusting dude.

Tales from a Korean Maiden in America
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This question of dating someone who is considered an “out group” is more significant to a person of Korean extraction ... Unfortunately, due to the Korean War from the 1950's, we have an ugly reminder of the term “Yang Galbo” referring to those catering to Westernersl ... Yang Galbo literally means those poverty stricken young women Who turned to prostitution for American G.I.'s stationed in South Korea ...