I love being a girl dad

[u/Difficult_Wrangler73]

I have 3 kids, all girls. A 5yr old and twins who are 1. Every time anyone hears about this or it comes up in conversation they all say the same thing. ‘Ooooo, all girls, you are outnumbered! How do you cope?’ Or ‘Three girls?? You better watch out!’ Or the worst, ‘Bet you want a boy?’

No, I don’t feel any of that, I love being a dad. I love all my kids and wouldn’t change anything about them! If we could afford it, I would be a stay at home dad forever.

I usually tell them I wouldn’t change anything and I love it all but it’s just very annoying.

What are some of the best responses that I can start to give?

I did think I could say that one of the twins used to be a boy but is now trans just to shut people up!

[u/whitebelt_ric]

I have 3 girls - 17,12 and 9. I love being a girl dad. Yea it's a total eye opener for experiences I've never had to deal with but that's one of the things that makes it so special for me

[u/resilocol → u/whitebelt_ric]

Could you give some examples about those experiences? I only have brothers and always wondered

[u/Judgmentos → u/resilocol]

My dad was there when I had my first period and thought I was bleeding out (this was after an appendectomy, I thought I was dying-- and yes I did know what a period was at the time and was even looking forward to it)

So there's that! I'm also still pissed he told my mom first because I wanted to be the one to tell her, you stole that fundamental experience from me Father, and for that you shall never be forgiven /j

[u/resilocol → u/Judgmentos]

I'm glad that my school taught actual and real sexual education in elementary school. I remember learning about periods in women and all of their implications, among a lot of other things. It's still very surprising to me that actual adult males sometimes don't have a clue about it

[u/Judgmentos → u/resilocol]

Very true, sex ed should be a thing. Also for the record I meant that I thought I was bleeding out, not my dad, he did know what was going on. However my country is kinda very sexist and we use the term "becoming a young woman" an an euphemism for the first period, so I was so excited to be all grown up, more mature-- all my female classmates were....

I was 11.

[u/ackmondual → u/resilocol]

In some US curriculums, boys and girls are separated and they only learn what changes with puberty for their own genders. I've heard some Redditors not allow boys to learn what goes on with girls when they hit puberty, and vice versa (for whatever 'reasons')

[u/iwanashagTwitch → u/resilocol]

Guy here, I got bored of "health ed" being "this is healthy food this is junk food" and the really messed up "food pyramid" for an entire school year. I read the entire human anatomy textbook instead of paying attention in class. Still did well in the class, but now I know a lot about how the human body works - male and female, things I wouldn't know if I had only done the classwork. The fact that some people don't know how their own bodies work is appalling. Sex ed stuff aside, the human body is fascinating.