“Daddy…I lost my best friend” said Sydney as I picked her up after school.  She said it so casually that it caused me to turn and look my daughter in the eyes.  That’s when I noticed her bottom lip trembling and her eyes were moist.  Oh s#*t, I thought, now what do I do?

The normal male reaction to this situation is panic.  Plain and simple.  Jenny wasn’t around for guidance and I had those eyes staring at me,  you know the eyes, of an angel.  Pure like snow, with depth so deep and at this moment filled with hurt.  PANIC!

Luckily I had just read a great book last week.  The book is titled Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters (https://www.megmeekermd.com/books/) written by Meg Meeker, M.D.  It is very easy for a father to brush this off casually and suggest that its girls being girls and get on with what he was doing.  I chose to put some of my new-found wisdom(used loosely here) to use.

Daughters, and Sydney is no different, look to their fathers as superhero’s(yes I have mentioned this in the past but Dr. Meeker backs me up quite often in print). We are big, strong and…