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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:27 PM Oct 2012

We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between:

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We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between: (Original Post) Playinghardball Oct 2012 OP

It would be so wonderful if all girls could have that kind of father, many of us had no one. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2012 #1

Sigh... I would be that kind of father had ... JackN415 Oct 2012 #5

I wish that had been the case. He was a sick man. Hope someday you can have a chance to be Mnemosyne Oct 2012 #6

... and then we need to provide the environment in which our sons & our daughters FREELY* patrice Oct 2012 #2

I like this... It's a more humane than the money trumps peace model... midnight Oct 2012 #3

+1google patrice Oct 2012 #4

K&R - that's how we raised our three. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #7

Awwww, sweet! dawg Oct 2012 #8

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)

1. It would be so wonderful if all girls could have that kind of father, many of us had no one. nt

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:31 PM

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JackN415

(924 posts)

5. Sigh... I would be that kind of father had ...

Reply to Mnemosyne (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:45 PM

Oct 2012

we not divorced and her mom's problem would not be in the way of her relationship with me. Nothing hurts a father more than seeing a daughter that he wants to nurture, protect, raise, grow is at a distance because of a bad marriage.

Mnemosyne

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6. I wish that had been the case. He was a sick man. Hope someday you can have a chance to be

Reply to JackN415 (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 03:25 PM

Oct 2012

the good father we dream of having.

patrice

(47,992 posts)

2. ... and then we need to provide the environment in which our sons & our daughters FREELY*

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:32 PM

Oct 2012

make their own choices about one another.

*And the word FREE includes the ability** to choose responsibly to commit or not to commit.

**And the word "ability" includes what we have taught them about one another and what they have learned about one another.