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thendrix 
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 7:26am |
I had to drop Evie off for her first day as a high school freshman. Must have been some construction dust or something in the air because my eyes got fairly watery as I drove away. Today it's just the freshman then Monday everybody goes back. They call it a soft start. It's so all the teachers can help the freshmen find their way around. We went to her open house on Wednesday and I have to say as a father of a freshman girl walking around the school it's hard to not wonder which of those little bastards is going to have their manhood removed when they get a little to close 
Edited by thendrix - 01 Aug 2025 at 7:26am
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 8:02am |
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Tyler, as a Dad, we go through many of these firsts, they all hurt, but it’s hard on us knowing what is coming, but also scary for them as an unknown! I remember my bride and I driving all the way back from dropping my baby off at college with tears in our eyes. Don’t worry, be strong, she’ll be fine, it’s those poor boys that should be worried !
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 9:57am |
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yep! been there, done that! HS wasn't so dramatic, but leaving my baby girl hundreds of miles away from home for collage was rather tough. I choked the tears back, but it wasn't easy.
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 10:26am |
 JoeM(GA) wrote:
Tyler, as a Dad, we go through many of these firsts, they all hurt, but it’s hard on us knowing what is coming, but also scary for them as an unknown! I remember my bride and I driving all the way back from dropping my baby off at college with tears in our eyes. Don’t worry, be strong, she’ll be fine, it’s those poor boys that should be worried ! |
Speaking of those poor boys, I'm sure we've all seen the picture of the squirrel hanging in the shepherds hook by his manhood? As we were walking through open house I kept thinking "I'm going to need a BIG shepherds hook"
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 11:45am |
LouSWPA wrote:
yep! been there, done that! HS wasn't so dramatic, but leaving my baby girl hundreds of miles away from home for collage was rather tough. I choked the tears back, but it wasn't easy. |
I kept them choked back until I got in the car. Then I was like SCREW IT!😂
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 12:26pm |
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August 1st school starts? Good grief!! Tuesday after Labor Day when we were that age. I remember the he!! school boards took when the start was moved to before Labor Day weekend.
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 1:19pm |
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They grow up before you know it. I agree with Joe…it’s those boys that need to be worried. You and Danielle have given your girls a good solid foundation that will serve them well through life.
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Posted: 01 Aug 2025 at 10:20pm |
It's just one of those steps of life that we have to go through when we have daughters. All you can hope for is that we gave them the right values and they remember that. They go from Daddy's little girl to a young lady, to a young woman and then the ultimate loss, someone else's woman. Then it starts over again when they make you a grand father. Grandpas can really get away with telling young gentlemen what they have in store if they step over the line. I scared the be-geepers out of my granddaughters future husband! He likes me NOW....
It seems impossible though!! TOO FAST!! I'm still chuckling about the 'out of the mouths of babes'. Just look ahead to all the achievements that she is going to share with you at school. Seh'll make you proud Tyler.
Oh yes, one other thing.... She'll ALWAYS be Daddy's little girl. She's told me that.
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Posted: 03 Aug 2025 at 1:33am |
I second T-bone's note, but for me, it was getting home from taking the last of my son's stuff to his dorm room, then looking into his bedroom, knowing that, while he'll be back in it sometime, the days of him being there always, were now history...
It's one of those things that NO 'parenthood' training ever include... and everyone feels it eventually.
Now, as far as my daughter is concerned... she's a soccer goalie... and when she was small, I taught her, and her older brother, every philosophy of armed and unarmed defense that I know, and their proficiency is considerable. Her boyfriend is a collegiate starting defensive end. When I had my 'father' discussion with him, I just told him
"Son, PLEASE don't you DARE do anything bad to her... if you do, I'll be stuck having to mop up what's left of you after she tears you to shreds... 
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Posted: 03 Aug 2025 at 7:28am |
DaveKamp wrote:
I second T-bone's note, but for me, it was getting home from taking the last of my son's stuff to his dorm room, then looking into his bedroom, knowing that, while he'll be back in it sometime, the days of him being there always, were now history...
It's one of those things that NO 'parenthood' training ever include... and everyone feels it eventually.
Now, as far as my daughter is concerned... she's a soccer goalie... and when she was small, I taught her, and her older brother, every philosophy of armed and unarmed defense that I know, and their proficiency is considerable. Her boyfriend is a collegiate starting defensive end. When I had my 'father' discussion with him, I just told him
"Son, PLEASE don't you DARE do anything bad to her... if you do, I'll be stuck having to mop up what's left of you after she tears you to shreds... |
Yeah…..those feelings weren’t unique to my daughter, went through it with both sons as well. With the daughter it was somewhat different/ worse. She is a twin, my younger 2 are twin brother and sister. Probably didn’t help she reported to school a couple weeks after her brother, so she was last and double the experience that year.
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Posted: 03 Aug 2025 at 8:02am |
DaveKamp wrote:
I second T-bone's note, but for me, it was getting home from taking the last of my son's stuff to his dorm room, then looking into his bedroom, knowing that, while he'll be back in it sometime, the days of him being there always, were now history...
It's one of those things that NO 'parenthood' training ever include... and everyone feels it eventually.
Now, as far as my daughter is concerned... she's a soccer goalie... and when she was small, I taught her, and her older brother, every philosophy of armed and unarmed defense that I know, and their proficiency is considerable. Her boyfriend is a collegiate starting defensive end. When I had my 'father' discussion with him, I just told him
"Son, PLEASE don't you DARE do anything bad to her... if you do, I'll be stuck having to mop up what's left of you after she tears you to shreds... |
Similar thing here Dave. Evie is a 2nd degree black belt in taekwondo and Cora is a first degree in taekwondo. They're also both yellow belts in jujitsu. People say "it's great to have your daughters in martial arts" and I answer "yeah it prepares them for dating"
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