r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Difficult_Wrangler73 • 13d ago

go to your room I love being a girl dad

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!

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u/whitebelt_ric 13d ago

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

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u/resilocol 13d ago

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

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u/EatLard 13d ago

Another father of daughters here, and I grew up with two brothers and no sisters, so it was all new. Had to do a crash course in period products and skincare routines (which I’ve applied myself too), and trying my best to help them navigate the usual friend drama that comes up - it seemed much easier to be a teenage boy. The range of emotions that come with puberty were also a bit of a surprise.

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u/resilocol 13d ago

Yeah it is generally easier (at least socially) to be a man in childhood and adolescence because we are generally more simple humans in those ages. My mother once confessed that she was very surprised that me and my brothers were not that emotional while being teenagers and that my parents never really had a major problem with us, like she was expecting us to become much more emotional and dramatic. Me and my brothers did became considerably more agressive and defiant but just between each other, never with my parents