Four girls with my wife was challenging enough, but alone, I would have floundered!
Edited to add …but I would not change any of them for anything. They always were and still are the apple of my eye 
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Tell me about it Pauline!
My own brush with the wrath aka. my parents happened when I fibbed to my Dad that I was going to the Library on a Saturday.
Instead, I was going to meet my sweetheart from school - my only ever boyfriend (who later became my husband)!
In any event, my boyfriend took me to the only Mall in town and we had lunch and watched a movie. We were walking hand in hand in the Mall when who should come up behind us but my father!
He very calmly said ‘it’s time to go!’. Now, my Dad was a kind, gentle man- but don’t ever lie to him! And, I had!
That car trip home was deadly silent! And the belting I got when we finally got home for lying 
was let’s just say memorable!
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My dad said the same thing before he passed away. 
Good memories. He was the best dad ever!
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He belted you!..
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I remember a time I gave my mum cheek, my dad chased me up the stairs , got hold of me, pulled my trousers and knickers down and slapped my bottom,…I remember it to this day and the humiliation of him doing that.
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Oh, we’ve had plenty beltings. My parents were really tough on us four girls. They most certainly did not spare the rod - ever! Very strict as well hence the lies!
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You have to see it from a father’s point of view and being a father, especially where girls are concerned, is difficult to say the least, because we can remember how a teenage boy’s mind works.
For my girls, I took the wide angled approach and allowed male rendezvous, but with strict time lines and a full run down of who they were etc etc. It worked too and all four were not too much of a worry.
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I’m sorry. That’s not pleasant. I bet you never gave your mum cheek again though.
That’s good parenting LD! Trusting!
My parents were not so ‘modern’ in their approach.
Oh I did, trust me!..
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Awww …no need for turning physical 
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Perhaps it’s growing pains with boys.
We had four girls and our only son did survive his first day, so all four girls have been a very special gift to us
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I’m sorry to hear that LD.
I’m so glad your lovely daughters kept you on your toes!
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I have a late discovered genetic problem for male children and when I eventually get my PM’s restored, I’ll tell you what it is, but not in open forum.
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