Well, am I disappointed. Finals have come and gone, one graduation survived. This should be a time of relief for my 2 daughters. In other words there should be less drama and there is not! So no events or pressure and still we have drama, meaning it never goes away until they get older.
I used [...]
Both daughters had meltdowns this past week over finals, as if that is surprising. What incredible pressure they put on themselves.
When I offer support for their great efforts my head was promptly taken off and handed to me. “Dad, you don’t know the pressure we are under”. “We are not smart!”. Both girls are A [...]
Lest her father humiliate his daughter in the health club by acknowledging her existence. The loss of face and stature among her peers would be incalculable.
The unspoken message here is, “Dad, hurry up and pay for the expensive health club, and then hurry up and go away. But before you hurry up and go away, [...]
Life would be too easy without teenage daughters. My 17 year old woke up this morning with a head cold, and pronounced it my fault since our humidifier chose not to work in the middle of the night.
My 16 year old is preparing to go to work at Target and pronounced, again, how she hates [...]
We should have all seen it coming. Our very, very particular 16 year old asked her mother to trim her hair a couple of inches, by the way, also layer it slightly.
All this was done with the hair being wet, and in truth it looked very subtle to all, including our daughter, until the next [...]
I can’t be alone on this. My teen high school senior spent 14 hours having her senior photos taken. It was narrowed down a final 20 photo’s and ALL OF THEM WERE UNACCEPTABLE AFTER BEING SIGNED OFF ON BY MY DAUGHTER.
Indeed, the smoke cleared and not one of those photos was going to work for [...]
A lost calculator the night before a calculus exam ended life, as we understand it, in the Kennedy household.. In listening to my teen daughter who lost this calculator, she is clearly not fit to live on this earth. It’s a transgression worthy of a self served life sentence of being an idiot. No other [...]
Read full post...Fathers of teenage daughters have it rough, we are typically clueless to the emotional firestorms that our teen daughters envelop us in. However I think it’s a walk in the park compared to the dynamics between teen girls and their mothers. That is the big league.
Some of the spirited conversations (that is understating the reality [...]
In keeping with tradition and sunny disposition, my 16 year old daughter marched down the stairs this morning, did not say a word, literally, and walked out the door. No hello to her brother, mom or her saintly father. Absolutely par for the course. She’s a brooding, melancholy, antisocial, self absorbed teenage girl in the [...]
Read full post...Hello fellow suffering fathers. I have 2 teenage girls who have nearly rendered me comatose. I’m looking forward to some therapeutic counsel and posts from other fathers in the midst. Where to begin………
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