Pipe Line said:

Well, my daughter starts her real legitimate first day of Pre-K today at a legitimate Elementary School. I know Kindergarten next year will be when the real deal hits, as Pre-K is only half days in the afternoons, but damn, she's growing up too fast. I've scrolled through my old pictures and reflected this morning while working, and just reliving those old moments. All I really hope for is that she enjoys school and applies herself way more than I ever did, the kids are good to each other, and she makes friends.

I'm proud of her

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Pipe Line said:

Well, my daughter starts her real legitimate first day of Pre-K today at a legitimate Elementary School. I know Kindergarten next year will be when the real deal hits, as Pre-K is only half days in the afternoons, but damn, she's growing up too fast. I've scrolled through my old pictures and reflected this morning while working, and just reliving those old moments. All I really hope for is that she enjoys school and applies herself way more than I ever did, the kids are good to each other, and she makes friends.

I'm proud of her

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Pipe Line said:

Well, my daughter starts her real legitimate first day of Pre-K today at a legitimate Elementary School. I know Kindergarten next year will be when the real deal hits, as Pre-K is only half days in the afternoons, but damn, she's growing up too fast. I've scrolled through my old pictures and reflected this morning while working, and just reliving those old moments. All I really hope for is that she enjoys school and applies herself way more than I ever did, the kids are good to each other, and she makes friends.

I'm proud of her

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Ironwardog said:

My first, and so far only son (we are planning on one more), is 2 months today. I want him just to get to the point where he sleeps through the whole night but then slow down after that. Thankfully he’s down to getting up just once a night rather than three times a night when we first brought him home. It’s amazing how much bigger he already is than two months ago!

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Boondock_St_Sker said:

don't blink...they'll be 26 and 23.

I am a very lucky man to have two daughters who still want to talk to their dad. One of the keys, I think, is to walk the walk. As parents we can SAY many things and DO the opposite of what we say. "You can come to me with anything, tell me anything" If you as the parent say that but DON'T reciprocate and talk about life things with them, they will never feel like they can tell you "anything".

Every moment is precious...don't take it for granted but also, not every moment needs to be a teaching moment, HAVE FUN growing up WITH them

Good luck brother!!

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Ironwardog said:

My first, and so far only son (we are planning on one more), is 2 months today. I want him just to get to the point where he sleeps through the whole night but then slow down after that. Thankfully he’s down to getting up just once a night rather than three times a night when we first brought him home. It’s amazing how much bigger he already is than two months ago!

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HuskerGarrett said:

I feel ya, my oldest will start 1st grade and youngest will start kindergarten next week. It’ll be weird having them both in “real” school now for the first time. It’s going by way too fast.

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Jim14510 said:

It doesn't slow down

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Lfaller23 said:

My son turns 2 in November and it blows my mind how fast it’s gone by and how much he’s grown/learned already. Not sure I’ll be ready to handle it once he gets to school age 😂

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Boondock_St_Sker said:

don't blink...they'll be 26 and 23.

I am a very lucky man to have two daughters who still want to talk to their dad. One of the keys, I think, is to walk the walk. As parents we can SAY many things and DO the opposite of what we say. "You can come to me with anything, tell me anything" If you as the parent say that but DON'T reciprocate and talk about life things with them, they will never feel like they can tell you "anything".

Every moment is precious...don't take it for granted but also, not every moment needs to be a teaching moment, HAVE FUN growing up WITH them

Good luck brother!!

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jaihawk said:

Nope! In a week and a half, our last one leaves for BMT for the Air Force and we'll be empty nesters... Crazy how fast that went!

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jaihawk said:

So true! Our daughters are 22 and 20 (she'll turn 21 on the first Husker home game, so that's going to be a crazy day!). I love the adult relationship that we have with the two of them. Thankfully we're the fun parents and they love spending time with us. Heck, their 20 something friends invite us out to the O Street Bars to hang out with them quite often (talk about feeling old!).

Boondock had some great advice here about walking the walk. The one thing I've learned is that your children are always watching and taking note, even when you don't think they are. What you do, how you act, how you treat others is really ingrained in them. Even more importantly, as father of 2 daughters, I always made it a purpose of mine to show them how a man should treat a woman, by how I treat my wife. I had great examples to show me (both sets of grandparents married over 60 years until parted by death, and my folks married over 50 years and still going). It's the best thing I can do for them, so they don't settle for less than they deserve.

The other piece of advice I would give it to just be there. You're going to screw up a lot as a parent along the way, but the fact that you were always there and always showed up for them when they needed it, that will stick with them forever.

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Pipe Line said:

I have taken way more pictures than I ever thought I would! You can totally see the difference in just a couple months. We're in that kind of weird transition between phase where she's in her own bed through the night, but has a little trouble going to bed by herself when it's time, so either me or my wife lay in bed with her until she falls asleep. If it's me, I'm usually out cold for 3-4 hours lol

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Ironwardog said:

My wife used to work at the UNL daycare center and she said we are working on independent sleep right away. Thankfully he’s isn’t colicky so it was pretty easy to start right away. She said they used to want to strangle parents who never worked on it and she doesn’t want to put our daycare provider through that. I have a feeling it isn’t as cut and dried as she thinks it should be lol

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HCFord1 said:

Listening to your kid cry for 15-20 minutes straight and not doing anything about it feels like an eternity. But then a week later when you wake up in the morning and look at the monitor and they’re still asleep peacefully and you’ve slept through the night you’ll understand what it was for.

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Boondock_St_Sker said:

My youngest and I were running some errands the other day and Morgan Wallen's Superman song came on.
Her: "Remember when I sent you this song to listen to?"
Me: Yes, this is one of my favorite songs, why?
Her: I just want you to know that when I was a young girl, you were Superman to me but as the years have gone on, and even though you've made bad judgements, mistakes, and wrong choices, I still think you're Superman but I've come to realize that you've always been there no matter what. I can always rely on you to be there and it comforts me to know that...Even Superman is just a man sometimes...
Me: I'm not crying you are!!!

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Baron Winnebago said:

Yeah. Anything that's "hard" to do in the moment tends to become a harder problem later, so you might as well just do it

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GAHusker said:

I might be a huge jerk, but I never found this hard to ignore. My main problem was that my wife will always run to them right away anyway (despite my protests), so it was never even worth worrying about.

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