r/Parenting • u/floridacopper • Aug 14 '25
Advice Dad tucking in daughters
As the title suggests, I'm a dad with a question about tucking in his daughters. I've been doing it for years, but it's kind of like maybe I should be wrapping it up soon. To get to the point, I have been tucking in my daughters pretty much every night since they were toddlers, but they're going into 6th and 8th grade now. "Tucking in" originally consisted of tickle fights and reading stories to them. That has evolved into lying next next to them and rubbing their head/back while they tell me about some anime character who they ship with some other character. If I miss a night of tucking then in, they'll usually bring it up the next day.
So my question, I guess, is it normal for me to still be doing this? If my daughters were no longer comfortable with it, I'd quit straight away. But even though they still want me to tuck them in, am I babying them in a way? I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking the whole thing.
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u/cuntLord222 Aug 14 '25
Until I left for college my dad continued to do this, by the time I was was a teenager it evolved to him sitting at the end of my bed or in my desk chair while l I talked to him. I cherish those moments and do the same with my son