My dh first big time "Overprotective Daddy" heart attack moment About This Page:

[mrsmaup]

Took the kids to the mall today. Needed to get 12 year old daughter w/body of 16 year old new pairs of LOOSE jeans!LOL!!

First off, I have noticed a new pack of "animals" that like to silently lurk near the entrances of dressing rooms; pubescent and pre-pubescent boys!LOL!!

Found 2 pair of jeans(on sale too!LOL!!) for daughter. Husband and son are outside JcPenny's people watching. Daughter and I are walking out of store into main mall, when 3 teenage boys whip their heads around and stare at her as she is walking away(totally oblivious, as she isnt really interested much in boys yet).

I am a bit in shock and when I look up I see a man w/eyeballs BULGING out of their sockets, blue in face and clutching his chest!LOL!! Yes, first time daddy noticed MUCH OLDER boys looking his beloved princess up and down.

When we got home, he snatched her 2nd grade picture off the wall and held it up sternly saying "THIS is how I will ALWAYS see Brookie!!!"

Long hard road ahead I think!LOL!!

[reinstructor]

I think you're in for a very difficult teen years. I know lots of fathers just like him and it's always interesting when those sweet little girls become interested in those "filthy" boys. Good luck to Brookie, you and she will need lots of patience. He's going to be difficult.
(This comes from the father of boys. I would have reacted the same way if I had had a daughter.)

[chezp]

That made me smile - thanks for sharing that.

[AKLRULZ]

God help the young man who attempts to date my daughter.

[Dumbo]

I'm so glad we had boys. I still remember the look on my Dad's face when we saw me in my wedding dress for the first time. I tried it on so he could see it a couple of weeks before the wedding. I think that's when he knew I was all grown up.

[GoofyMom]

<font color="0066cc">LOL Kristie! I don't think that DH has seen boys notice DD yet. DD is now 14 and if I may say so, she's pretty cute. I'm not sure that she notices all the boys who get whiplash when we're walking through the mall together, but I sure do! And it's not me that's giving those boys whiplash!

We went to the Boo at the Zoo this fall and the guy at the hot chocolate/mini donut stand really checked her out when we were getting our mini donuts! When we left I mentioned it to her and she hadn't noticed but suddenly she wanted a cup of hot chocolate to wash down her donuts. </font>

[Flower and Baloo]

<font color="green">Mrs. M!

I hope he doesn't act like my father and uncles did once we girls got up to the 'whiplash' age.

Their Dad, my grandfather had a double barreled shotgun that he would use to go hunting and to explain the rules of dating for his 2 daughters in West Virginia. 12 kids in all in the family and my Dad was the oldest by 7 years.

When grandpa died my dad got it and once I began to date he enacted the same ritual that his dad did. He would meet the boy at the front door, give him the rules, check his watch, check and wind my watch and tell him what to expect if his precious daughter wasn't in the house before or at the appointed hour. All the while this unloaded (although the boy didn't know it) shotgun was leaned up against the wall next to his favorite recliner which was strategically moved from the family room to right next to the front door. OUTSIDE!

Once I got older and was married that shotgun got passed down to the next uncle with a girl and so on until we were all of age when it came home to my Dad and I've already got dibs on it later in life.

Needless to say, none of the girls in our family had ANY children out of wedlock in this navy town.

Yep, I had a strange upbringing, but I'm grateful for their guidance and wisdom and I love them for wanting to keep me safe.

Just tell Mr. Maup to use his 'angry' eyes instead of the solution my family took. </font>

[mrsmaup]

A LOOONG time ago, my husband was working an air show w/several good friends. As we came accross the group(we wives and children) we had them pose for a "scary men" picture in their uniforms, raybans and M-16 held up against their chests. The were all VERY big men, so it was quite a formadible picture.

Several years ago a friend mentioned that we would have to deal w/alot of boys when Brooke got older. My husband said he was going to have that picture blown up into giant size and put it next to the front door w/a sign to all incomming boys saying "im an expert marksman, how bout you?".

Fathers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flower and Baloo]

<font color="green">I like the way your husband thinks! lol </font>

[DisneyMomma]

Your poor DH! I hear it only gets harder from here.

As the mom to one of those potential "animals", or "filthy boys", I promise that we are doing our very best to raise our son to be respectful and gentlemanly.

[mrsmaup]

I told my dh that we would be sure that our son watched all of this with open eyes, as this is what he could expect from his girl's daddy!LOL!!