A Father's Checklist

As a father to one daughter and three boys, I can tell you that this checklist is a great idea! Thanks for sharing...

You are right. I forgot discipline. I am naturally inclined to discipline my daughter. While I received corporal punishment as a child, I decided together with my wife that we would not spank our daughter. We use other strategies. Perhaps a new post on discipline would be appropriate, too!

That's a good list for the father of a young child. I don't see discipline when she breaks rules, and that is also important part of teaching that fathers do and mothers usually can't do. A firm but gentle bare bottom spanking when she's naughty teaches many good lessons that a girl needs to learn and only a father can teach.

As she gets older, it will be good to begin adding instruction in becoming a wife and mother to the teaching of your girl. A father's job is to create a successful adult, and a woman is successful when she marries a good man and bears your grandchildren. A fathers most important job is to "give away" our grown up daughters to a good young man we helped her find.