I just wanted to share something with everyone.

I have a 12 yr old daughter and i love her so very much.. and today i
saw a paper that she wrote for language class. It was called my dad..

Now she went on to say how much she appreciates all that I do for her.
Like the clothes, sporting events, and just dad stuff to me.. she likes
that i am funny and she writes down how she knows i care about her.. I
never knew how she felt until today..
As a dad my love for her is awesome..but to finnaly see her write down
her feelings about me is... well very heartbreaking in a way that brings
me much pleasure. I try to give her the best in life and knowing that
she see's my efforts and appreciates them is everything..Well I am out
of here just wanted to share some joy instead of the same o, same o.

Please everyone that loves there child/children as much as I do share
something nice about your kid.

Well off to play baketball take care everyone.

sometimes kids have a hard time showing how they feel as some adults do
also.I have 3 kiddos and my oldest is 13 and i know he cares but man
sometimes he doesnt show much of it.that is great feeling when your
children say special things about ya..........keep up the good parenting
lazyj

lazyj our kids will give us rewards beyond what we could ever think of.
If I was you I would take that paper and frame it or at least put it in
a safe place cause years down the road you will read that and it will
once again bring tears to your eyes. Cherish them while you can for they
grow up so fast before you know it they are grown.

That is so great lazyj, my daughter once worte a paper about me being
here hero for going through all I did with her dad and the divorce and
then what I went through with an ex fiance, and how we have always
managed to survive and that she knew I did alot for her and she knows
that I always will.. She is actually the one on the right in the picture
I have.. We are very close and I am very blessed to have such a wondeful
daughter.. She has told me on numerous occasions that she is never
moving out of the house and that for the time she is in college
whereever she goes I can only be at the most 30 miutes away so if she
ever gets sick I can go and get her and bring her home to take care of
her...
I know theloveyou feel for you daughter and I think it just keeps
growing until your chest feels like it is going to burst.. Goodluck to
you and your daughter..

Thank you for sharing that .
My daughter has written about me on her myspace.
She has written about what an awesome mom I am and she
does not how I pull it off so flawlessly being a single
parent. I donot think she realizes how much she and her
brothers contribute to my parenting skills. I can
not imagine life with another group of kids.
I try to tell them how wonderful, special they are
every day and that I love them!
Thank you again for sharing!.

My daughter has a personality disorder and had a really hard time
growing up, I raised her by myself since she was 5 y/o. She never wrote
about me that I know of, but fought me the whole way, yet everytime she
was out and needed a way home in the middle of the night, she knew she
could call and I was in the car to go get her, she would end up 60 to 70
miles away and call at 3 a.m. and I would go get her. Never chewed her
out or got mad, would rather have her call than have her in a car with a
kid who was driving drunk or on drugs. Now that she is 32 and a mother,
she will tell me she appreciated what I did. I on occasion will hear
her talk on the phone to her friends and tell stories about what she did
and how I always was there for her. And seems like we always had at
least one of her friends living with us while she was a teenager, and
they all called me mom, and if her friends had kids, the kids called me
grandma, and they even called me if they needed rides in the middle of
the night.

you have raised a great kid you should be very proud great job.

That's real nice you seem to have such a wonderful relationship with
your daughter.
My son shows his affection for me everytime he hugs me and/or smiles at
me (which is alot)
Makes my heart swell

My 4 year old daughter said the cutest thing today when I got home from
school, she said Daddy when I get bigger can use your truck, it was the
cutist thing I told her you mean when your in high school? She said ya
she already got plans for my truck.

Sounds like you raised a fine young lady there J.

My son has a speech delay. And one day I was on the couch watching TV
(back when I actually watched TV) and my son was in his room playing.
And out of the blue he came running out of his room and gave me the
worlds biggest hug a 2 year old can give and then looked up at me and
said mommy I love you. It brought tears to my eyes. I just picked him
up and held him so close and so tight. It was his first full sentence.
It brought me so much joy. It made me feel proud and great full all at
the same time.

My daughter had to take her 3 favorite things to school.So this is what
she took.

A stuffed animal

her gameboy

and me.

I was so proud.

thank you all for your comments.

Those are the times when you can feel all the love that you’ve put in
come poring back out at ya – Right on lazyj!! It appears your not “lazy”
when it comes to parenting.

You ask for a nice kid story – compassion;
Was walking across the Golden Gate Bridge with my kids when they were
about 5 & 6. We had been having all sorts of discussions about being
grateful and homelessness came up. It was hard for them to understand
that some people don’t have a bed to sleep in. So anyway we are walking
across the gate and there is this homeless guy sleeping flat on the
ground, next to the rail. My daughter took a real interest cause now she
saw someone sleeping without a bed. About 20 feet past him, she tells me
she wants to know what it’s like and lays flat out on the ground. After
10 or 15 seconds she rolls her head over to look up at me and says,
“Daddy, he needs a pillow.”
I was caught speechless for a while.

I think most that know me KNOW my girls come FIRST above everyTHING and
everyONE else.. including myself MOST times they call me the
ALIEN.. cuz they've NEVER met anyone like ME before.. and they think I'm
COOL.. I encourage all the great lil things they DO do and not remind
them of their failings.. I'd do ANYthing for them.. within
REASON of course

my 12 year old gets frustrated easily when things don't go exactly how
she envisions them.. the other day she was trying to finish a school
project when she hit a blank.. she didn't know what to do next.. she
stomps into my office.. arms folded and grumbles "I CAN'T do that stupid
thing" well.. off we went to see where she was in her toils and see if
there was any imput I could give... after listening to exactly what she
had to accomplish and seeing how far she'd gotten, I came up with a few
simple ideas to help her solve her dilemma and seeing her content with
that, left her to finish the deed.. 20 mins later.. she ran into the
office all excited and as I jumped up she threw herself at me into a hug
saying " MOM.. you got the BEST ideas and ALWAYS figure things out..
don't EVER die k??" she squeezed me again and ran off all happy!

WOW!!