You and Your Dad
By Amber
@AmbiePam (95721)
United States
February 4, 2025 2:36pm CST
I was wondering if this was something that’s just been the last decade or so, or if I just wasn’t aware of these events years ago. Annelyn (pictured), my 5 year old niece, is dressed for the Kings and Princesses Luau at their church the other night. Amyra went to a King and Princesses Sock Hop when she was around Annelyn’s age. I don’t think events like these were common when I was a kid, over 30 years ago. I thinks it is sweet (yes, they have mother/son events too). But I’ve heard of other churches doing this, and some regular community centers having them too. Anyone familiar with them? I think they’re sweet.
What special things did you do with your dad as a child?
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@Tampa_girl7 (51157)
• United States
12h
They didn’t have these things when I was a child either. My daddy read a lot to me. He taught me to ride a bike, If there was a spooky movie that I didn’t want to watch alone he would stay up and watch it with me. He did so many things with us. Swimming and playing in the water or playing in the snow are two of my favorite things that we did together. Photo is of the last time we were in Tampa together at the zoo.
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@MarieCoyle (40230)
•
5h
We didn’t have events like that when I was young, but I do think they are really special!
She’s such a cutie!
@Juliaacv (51967)
• Canada
12h
It sounds like something new since I was a child or since I was raising a child.
Won't my son have fun taking 2 dates to something like that? 
I have to say that Annelyn looks so lovely, all dressed up like a little lady here.
My Dad did some special things all on his own when I was growing up over the years, he was always so good at surprising me.
When I began going to the teen dances at the hall in the town close to us, Dad would 'bartend' so that he could keep an eye on me. Bartending a teen dance was easy since all he had to do was take the money for the glass of pop that he was filling for the person. Alot of parents would ask him about their kids, and it wasn't too long before alot of Dads volunteered for that duty.
I have to say that Annelyn looks so lovely, all dressed up like a little lady here.
My Dad did some special things all on his own when I was growing up over the years, he was always so good at surprising me.
When I began going to the teen dances at the hall in the town close to us, Dad would 'bartend' so that he could keep an eye on me. Bartending a teen dance was easy since all he had to do was take the money for the glass of pop that he was filling for the person. Alot of parents would ask him about their kids, and it wasn't too long before alot of Dads volunteered for that duty.2 people like this
@Juliaacv (51967)
• Canada
10h
@AmbiePam Thanks, he was so much fun.
Growing up on a farm, we didn't have things that people who worked in town had.
I remember in late April, he would be out in the field for 5:30 in the morning, before I was up for school, and he wouldn't come in until dark, usually 9 Or sometimes 10pm.
I would miss him terribly.
I would make sandwiches for him, wrap them in wax paper, and some small canning jars for pickles, cut up the way that he liked them or fresh radishes, and then a mason jar for milk, and put it into the carrier on the front of my bicycle, and ride over to the field that he would be working at. He could always count on me to come along and share a few minutes while he had his supper. My mother would still feed him a hot meal when he came in, but I just needed to see him and he never discouraged me from going out to the field.
I remember all too well the day that we went out to their place when our son was staying there after I had Brittany. Dad came in and asked where Brittany was, we had an appointment with a pediatric cardiologist that day in another city, and he was concerned. I told him that Brittany was admitted to the hospital because the doctor listened to her heart and found that she was in heart failure. Being a humbly religious man, he marched over to the phone and dialed the church and asked Carol, the secretary for the Pastor. He explained the situation and that Brittany hadn't been baptized at that point. The Pastor advised him that he personally knew the pastor at the children's hospital and he would call him and ask him to see us.
We were not known in a city an hour away, but Dad got the ball rolling. When the Pastor did not come to the hospital as arranged, I called a church, just like Dad did from our hotel room. I told him my name and the situation, and he asked if I was John G's daughter-which amazed me, but he knew him and he consoled me and helped me over the phone. His name went further than he knew it would. I was grateful for that conversation and I felt it was so intesnese as the pastor knew my Dad.
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@NJChicaa (121090)
• United States
11h
@AmbiePam When I spoke at my dad's memorial service I started it out by saying that it always annoyed/offended me as a teenager to be told that I looked just like my dad. What 18 year old girl wants to hear that she looks like her 40 year old dad? I concluded it by saying that I consider it an honor these days to hear that I look like the best person I've ever known.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84525)
• Rupert, Idaho
12h
Very nice photo. I can't really weigh in on this; I didn't grow up with a father. I never even knew he existed till I was 16.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84525)
• Rupert, Idaho
3h
@AmbiePam Well I am pretty sure he was a sick person, definitely don't think I was planned if that says anything. But I do wonder all I missed out on not having a father around.
@GardenGerty (161894)
• United States
7h
I spent time in the garage with my dad. He let me try to use a screwdriver, set up an easel for me to draw on, and other times I sat in the pick up and pumped the brakes while he bled them. Our community has a yearly Father/Daughter dance. I think the moms are just expected to go to sporting events with their sons. Oh, and my dad did my homework with me in the early mornings and untangled the heated curlers from my hair as a teen. He dug goats head thorns out of my feet when I got them from going barefoot.
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@snowy22315 (184508)
• United States
12h
Sounds like fun, We liked going to his softball games when we were young. Their team was first in the league and all the players got trophies. He liked to tell us stories, and he also taught us to ride bikes and fish.
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@much2say (56941)
• Los Angeles, California
12h
Awww, she is gorgeous! I know some schools have such events these days too . . . we never had that. It was rare that we had daughter/dad moments. But there are things I can remember doing solely with my dad. He taught me how to drive . . . he taught me to catch and throw a baseball in our baseball days . . . he taught me Japanese brush calligraphy . . . little big things like that.
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@wolfgirl569 (110725)
• Marion, Ohio
8h
We didn't have anything like that when I was a kid. I don't remember anything with my boys either
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@RasmaSandra (82141)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
My dad was the editor of the Latvian newspaper. He worked just a few blocks from our apartment. Mom worked in Manhattan. Dad has days off like Thursdays because he was expected to attend Latvian events and report on them on weekends. When he had the time off he would not take me to school I mean I was in kindergarten and he would take me to zoos and other places for kids even to kid movies,
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@sallypup (62556)
• Centralia, Washington
11h
@AmbiePam Thank you. Childhood is often out of our control. I knew my Dad when I was little- I don't remember that time. Then my Mom got together with her first husband and somehow or other the family ended back in Minnesota. Later, as a teen, I went back to WA state and had some sweet teen years on a farm. I had a love you hate you relationship. Dad was a very physically ill man who also was a mill worker, cowboy and farm worker. He gave me a kid safe horse. And on we went.....
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@somewitch (1686)
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11h
So pretty, I hope she had a blast! 
I don't recall parties like this but the usual holiday-related parties that were fun nevertheless.
I'd visit places such as a themed park, the zoo or just have walks/hikes in nature with dad as a child.
I don't recall parties like this but the usual holiday-related parties that were fun nevertheless.
I'd visit places such as a themed park, the zoo or just have walks/hikes in nature with dad as a child.2 people like this
@allknowing (139883)
• India
10h
We were in awe and there was a distance. But I do remebere when I came crying to him from school - my first day, asking him that my name be changed as I had come across so many names on that day. But when he told me that I got my nme after his mother I accepted it.
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@DaddyEvil (140228)
• United States
5h
I remember a father/daughter event when I was a teenager in our church and then, several years later, a mother/son event after I left the church. (Mom tried and tried to talk me into going. I wasn't interested.)
My dad was OLD before I was born and, while he did stuff with his older kids, the younger ones didn't get much attention unless it was for punishment. (I was 15 when dad passed away from a heart attack at 70 years old.)
@Fleura (30889)
• United Kingdom
11h
Never heard of anything like that here.
When I was little I used to go with him to visit his mother (my only grandparent) and then we would go down to the river and he would tech me to skim stones. It was he who taught me to read and to do maths. We used to have a 'spelling bee' too.
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