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There is a widely spread stereotype that daughter is a mom’s girl and that the daughter should be raised by the mother. However, I myself being a daughter would say that the role of father in daughter’s life should not be subjected to mother’s role. In fact, every father plays a major role in daughter’s life and there are many reasons for that. Fathers are the first males that baby daughter get to know and the influence of how dad treated them has a lot to do with the perception of men in general when it comes to the daughter’s mental field.
So let’s just dive in and understand what the relationship of a father and daughter should be like.
At first, we want to mention that if the father is a good one, he builds the ideal image of male for his daughter. This means that later on when daughters grow up, they will be in search of the man who reminds them of their fathers.
- Thus, the very first thing that should exist in the father-daughter relationship is the feeling of having a strong shoulder. The father must always be a shoulder for daughter to lean on. She must feel secure, protected and safe in the presence of father. In this case from very early age she will understand that men are strong people, and later on in her life she will be in search of a person who is strong and protecting. She must always feel that there is no danger when father is there.
- Besides being shoulder for daughter, in this unique and very soft relationship, father must be able to listen to daughter and to understand her. They are too different in their intellectual and emotional spheres, but fathers should listen to daughters and try to understand what they want and how they think.
- The next thing that is a must in daughter-father relationship is the presence of trust. The trust between them must be in return. When fathers do not trust their daughters and start forbidding them on certain things, daughters very easily get on the wrong path, so all fathers have to do to escape this sort of situation is trusting their daughters and give them freedom to choose. That is what trust is all about.
- Fathers also help a lot when it comes to behavior traits. The way father treats her is of great importance, the daughters of those fathers who love them the way the daughters are, who praise their daughters are for sure happier and self-confident. So fathers should love daughters the way they are, not trying to change them somehow.
- The fathers should also be attentive to their daughters. Any female loves attention but unlimited attention is also really bad. So all fathers need to do to have good relations with daughters is caring about them, taking interest in their lives but at the same time trying not to be clingy. When you are clingy, you annoy here. She feels as if you want to take her freedom away which has a lot do with trust. It becomes like a chain. So care about her, ask how her things are going on, but never push them too much and do not ask her too many questions.
These were the points that will make you close to your dream father-daughter relationship. These tips can really be helpful to these fathers who want to set strong ties with their daughters. So just take care of daughters because they really need a good relationship with their fathers.
