Is Kask hurt?

[District 4]

As a father of a 14yr old daughter, I need to see things like this. My daughter is a straight A honors student and a great hockey player, but otherwise wife and I have been tried by her in ways we never could have imagined. Every single issue that you have heard of regarding teenage girls, she's been there and done that. She's 10000x the effort and frustration that our boys are, combined. My wife keeps telling me that she'll (likely) be the first to provide us a grandkid so I need to be easy on her.

I had identical twin daughters who are now 25. I damn near lost my ******* mind when they were seniors in high school

 

[WEAREPSU_LI]

I had identical twin daughters who are now 25. I damn near lost my ******* mind when they were seniors in high school

I have fraternal twin daughters. This **** ain't easy.

 

[Wrestleknownothing]

I feel for you guys. I have two daughters who were never a minute of trouble. Neither were their brothers. I have been blessed. And I wish the same for you.

 

[golfer1922]

I have fraternal twin daughters. This **** ain't easy.

We had a 2yr old daughter in 1995, when her twin sisters were born.
I gave up caffeine cold turkey in 1996 cause I was turning into not a good father.

Needless to say, it was a challenge. Typical daughters growing up for the most part.
Can’t imagine surviving the high school years and college if I didn’t.

Things turned out Ok. All 3 have their Masters Degrees and are beautiful, polite, intelligent , God fearing women.
2 are married so far and I have 1 granddaughter, who is an adorable, soon to be 2 year old.

Saying I am blessed, would be an understatement.

 

[Cali_Nittany1]

Dad brag: My daughter just received her PhD in Chemistry from Baylor.

Awesome, a PhD in chemistry is impressive!

BTW, from your pic, I would've never guessed you're a retired police officer...

 

[Psalm 1 guy]

Awesome, a PhD in chemistry is impressive!

BTW, from your pic, I would've never guessed you're a retired police officer...

Too svelte? Too happy? The retiree goatee?

 

[PAgeologist]

As a father of a 14yr old daughter, I need to see things like this. My daughter is a straight A honors student and a great hockey player, but otherwise wife and I have been tried by her in ways we never could have imagined. Every single issue that you have heard of regarding teenage girls, she's been there and done that. She's 10000x the effort and frustration that our boys are, combined. My wife keeps telling me that she'll (likely) be the first to provide us a grandkid so I need to be easy on her.

Our youngest is 16. We said if we had her first, we wouldnt have another. She was terribly bullheaded and an awful temper (2 of my finest qualities). But something clicked when she got to high school and quite frankly she is a completely different kid. She loves school and does very well in it. Still stubborn, but not nearly as bad.

 

[PAgeologist]

The gender identity stuff (first started at 7 when most of her friends decided that they were trans - very definition of a social contagion. We moved because of this. Not an issue now), secret cell phone (given to her by her birth father. I am not her birth father, but have 100% raised her since 14 months - he's an insane loser drug addict), social media addiction (on secret cell phone - she had for ~4 months before we caught her on Tick Tock at 3am), terrible friend group (all flunking out of school, addicted to social media, gender identity, etc.), lying, bringing clothes in her backpack to change at school (because we don't allow her to dress like a sloot), mental health nonsense, and then the regular teenage stuff like lying, talking back, thinking she knows it all, breaking every house rule, procrastination, apathy, laziness, etc.

She's very intelligent and super athletic (won multiple BJJ NAGA tournaments before she refused to grapple anymore and now is a very good street hockey player), but chooses to surround herself with the lowest common denominator and has almost no drive. Everything comes easy to her, therefore she works at nothing. We are concerned what happens when she's out of our home as she'd do absolutely nothing productive if we allowed her to. A lot probably has to do with her birth father, who has been in and out of her life (due to rehab, suicide attempts, just disappearing) since I came into the picture.

That's probably more information than I should share to strangers, but there you go.

Yikes. Thats a lot to deal with there. A solid friend group is so important for teens. Sorry I dont have much advise for you.

 

[tullfan68]

I heard pretty much all season be had trouble making weight but guess we will find out next yr!but we all know kids hate losing weight if they don't have to!