http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR5mdqtX0WU

I thought it was a nice song for all us daddies girls, and all the wee ones out there who are daddies girls too!!

Also the fact that Michael Bublé is fall over gorgeous...!!!

Edited October 22, 200916 yr by Patsycat

Yes you are, and then you become "Grampa's little girl"...

Thanks for that Ian and what lovely photos.

You must be the most overbearing loving grandad.

Funny that Buble is also a canuck.... Take care of your wee ones....

I love this song.

And i think it is so nice and open. Just listen to it.

Sweet song, patsy. I am fortunate to still be a daddy's girl.

I think (in my pea brain and also a love of Bublé's music) I found it. Had not heard it before and loved it.

My own dad died six years ago on the 19th of October, so maybe it rang truth.

Even though my sister and I still argue over who was daddy's girl. We have a truce that we both were!! And she called me last night to have a good laugh and cry over our dad.

I just wish she had internet so that i could send her the song. Shise, the woman doesn't even have a mobile phone....

To all you aging daughters out there - keep a hold on to your dad, coz he's the only one you've got.

Even if they can be like mine was - when i was 35 and going out with a (female) friend - what time will you be home? 11.30, dad. I actually called him at midnight to tell him i was going to be a little late. My mother told me afterwards that he was pasing the floor. waiting for me.

That, for me, was daddy love.

I miss the old bugger!

That is a touching story, Patsycat... and that is from a sentimental old father and grampa.

I only have one daughter and a son, but there was always some competition for attention. A lot depends on the individual. Some girls are clingy and others want their space. I have two grand daughters, but I'm really only close to one. That is because of their personalities. My daughter's daughter is much like her mother and VERY independent. She really only goes after my attention if her brother is around... and then the two of them compete. My son's daughter is always asking for me to visit and always wants my attention.

This is my son's little girl who I will take out trick or treeting on Halloween..

Edited October 26, 200916 yr by IanForbes

Sorry Patsy but not every little girl is daddy's little girl. Some of just dont grow up in that kind of family

I think Patsy meant this for those that are still daddy's little girls, not thinking that we all are. However, i know what you mean. Never have been a daddy's little girl either, and seeing as id likely choose Japanese Water torture over even sitting in the same room as my father, its unlikely i ever will be!

Sorry Patsy but not every little girl is daddy's little girl. Some of just dont grow up in that kind of family

That is true to a degree. In today's modern world there are many children who grow up without knowing who their fathers are. And, in marriage breakups it is often common for spouses to use the children as weapons. It most often scars the children for life... to some degree or another. When I was a child there weren't the two spouses working like there are today and it was usually the father's role to work outside the home and the mother stayed home with the children. People were tired after work and there wasn't the time to be able to become "Daddy's little girl". It STILL takes a lot of effort for parents to balance time for their children and still earn a living. I was able to do so, but I know many people who didn't.

Sorry Patsy but not every little girl is daddy's little girl. Some of just dont grow up in that kind of family

That is true to a degree. In today's modern world there are many children who grow up without knowing who their fathers are. And, in marriage breakups it is often common for spouses to use the children as weapons. It most often scars the children for life... to some degree or another. When I was a child there weren't the two spouses working like there are today and it was usually the father's role to work outside the home and the mother stayed home with the children. People were tired after work and there wasn't the time to be able to become "Daddy's little girl". It STILL takes a lot of effort for parents to balance time for their children and still earn a living. I was able to do so, but I know many people who didn't.

Agree (almost) entirely. In Europe and the States BOTH partners (in any normal relationship) have to work to earn enough money to support the family. Obviously the v wealthy few are the exception to the rule. Plus, in the West most women want to work, as otherwise they feel inferior.

The opposite is the case in Thailand.

Wasn't what I meant at all actually. My father & I were close even after my parents divorced & the dust settled & I was never used as a weapon by either of them but he was not the kind of man to encourage girly behavior in his daughters & preferred to teach the "life is hard & be prepared to take care of yourself" school of father hood rather than the "indulged daddy's girl" style.

I also know a few women who are daddies girls, even after divorce/both parents working etc. I find this excuse bandied around far too much about far too many irrelevant things for my liking.

Some people just aren't daddies girls for no other reason than they aren't, it really can be that simple.!!!

Wasn't what I meant at all actually. My father & I were close even after my parents divorced & the dust settled & I was never used as a weapon by either of them but he was not the kind of man to encourage girly behavior in his daughters & preferred to teach the "life is hard & be prepared to take care of yourself" school of father hood rather than the "indulged daddy's girl" style.

I also know a few women who are daddies girls, even after divorce/both parents working etc. I find this excuse bandied around far too much about far too many irrelevant things for my liking.

Some people just aren't daddies girls for no other reason than they aren't, it really can be that simple.!!!

I get bits of what you're saying, but not others. I was a 'daddie's girl', but he ALWAYS told me - be the boss, not the secretary! I didn't realise how right he was until a few years later. But then again, he always liked 'girlie' behaviour - go figure!!

Its only years later that we can sort out and appreciate these differences in out father's behaviour and attitudes.

Nowadays everyone expects women to work and contribute to the family expenses. Partly because the woman's salary is needed to survive in the West, but also cos a woman would feel inadequate if she didn't have employment (it's not respected). Be honest, just being 'a mother' is not something that is respected by anyone in the west.

I don't know how other people were living but women working wasn't a matter of wanting respect in my family, it was/is a necessity & this is going back to over 100 years ago. My great grandmother worked, my grandmother worked, my mother worked & my sister & I work. It is cause we have to & as well as want to. Must be nice to live in a 1950's utopia all the time where women could stay home & do only house keeping & childcare, in my family the women did all that & full time jobs.

I don't know how other people were living but women working wasn't a matter of wanting respect in my family, it was/is a necessity & this is going back to over 100 years ago. My great grandmother worked, my grandmother worked, my mother worked & my sister & I work. It is cause we have to & as well as want to. Must be nice to live in a 1950's utopia all the time where women could stay home & do only house keeping & childcare, in my family the women did all that & full time jobs.

You've taken my last post the wrong way!

A generation ago women didn't work for resect - they did it entirely for money. Nowadays, women work for money AND RESPECT.

Yes, they work and also run the house and family - more fool us!

Its just the way it is, back home in Europe and the States - unless they are mega-wealthy.

I wasn't spoilt at all - sent out to work and fend for myself at a young age!!

But i think, as I got older, my father appreciated me more - as an adult. he wasn't around much when I was a kid (due to his work) so I did miss out on the daddy's little girl thing.

Just a nice song - didn't want to flare up old memories - good or bad.... Or make any arguments over who brought home the bacon...

Sorry!!

And, as i said, Bublé is yummy. And his daddy is a trawler fisherman from Vancouver.

I don't know how other people were living but women working wasn't a matter of wanting respect in my family, it was/is a necessity & this is going back to over 100 years ago. My great grandmother worked, my grandmother worked, my mother worked & my sister & I work. It is cause we have to & as well as want to. Must be nice to live in a 1950's utopia all the time where women could stay home & do only house keeping & childcare, in my family the women did all that & full time jobs.

You've taken my last post the wrong way!

A generation ago women didn't work for resect - they did it entirely for money. Nowadays, women work for money AND RESPECT.

Yes, they work and also run the house and family - more fool us!

Its just the way it is, back home in Europe and the States - unless they are mega-wealthy.

There are no hard and fast rules. I was married 20 years with my first wife and 7 years with my second wife. At no time did I ever play around, despite having many opportunities to do so.

I always earned ALL the money for my family (wife and two children). I did 90% of the cooking and the dishes afterwards. I also did 100% of the yard work around our home and all maintenance. Over a four year span I built another home after work and on weekends while holding down a full time job. My first wife did the house cleaning and looked after the children when they were small. Other than that she played "ladies" and went shopping for stuff we didn't need. Although she was a registered nurse, and could have earned more money than me, she chose not to work. The ONLY time she worked was part time to earn enough to visit her family in Australia. My second wife was much the same, except she didn't work at all until we started a daycare for children in a big house I had to buy. and, even that only lasted two years until she got bored with the job.

My son has his own carpenter business and works a 10 hour day, and sometimes on weekends. He financed his wife's 4 year university course, but she chose not to work when she graduated. She stays home and looks after their 3 year old daughter and takes two days off a week for herself while my grand daughter goes to her gramma.

My daughter and her husband are both teachers and work together in tandem. They take turns taking the 2 kids to daycare and playing with them when they are home. My daughter does all the house work and her husband does all the cooking. It seems to work for them and their friends are pretty much the same.

So, with just those few examples I don't think you can generalize too much that the women of today have so hard. There are exceptions to everything and extremes in both directions. I'm not blowing my own horn because I know other middle class families that were pretty much the same.

But is she Daddy's little Girl?

Joke?

Sounds like Ian married lazy women rather than women are lazy

My sisters and I are all pretty much "daddy's little girls" . My oldest sister is a senior research scientist, published, holds patents and a PhD in applied engineering. My middle sister publishes her own monthly magazine with a distribution of 75,000, started out of her kitchen, distributed door to door 7 years ago. Both have children and have been actively involved in raising their kids as well as taking care of the housework.

I don't think one can judge women as a whole by one's own experiences. I certainly realize that my family is not the norm, but I also know that it was our father who taught us all that we could be whatever we wanted to be and it never dawned on me (until I was an adult and encountered it in person) that there were actually men out there who thought I was incapable merely because of my gender. Imagine my shock when encountering such people due to the protected bubble my father raised me in. Instilling in me the notion that I could be and do whatever I chose to because I was capable of such things. What was he thinking?

Sweet song, patsy. I am fortunate to still be a daddy's girl.

He must be a very patient man.

"Once upon a time there was a very naughty grandfather who took himself to Thailand and got himself a dozen or so young thai girlfriends....."

"Once upon a time there was a very naughty grandfather who took himself to Thailand and got himself a dozen or so young thai girlfriends....."

True. But little Eden loves me just the same. I do magic tricks for her and turn various objects into candy that I always carry for just such a purpose. The pretty Thai girlfriends love me for the same reason... only I turn the candy into money for them. It's a fair trade.