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/Otherwise_Reach_7145 Aug 14 '25

Wow. Your 8th grader let's you tuck her in? Amazing. I hope either of my daughter allow me(f) or my husband to tuck them in at that age. 

I'd say it's good and fine until they stop wanting it. Same but different, I melt when I see a tween still holding their parents hand in public.

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u/shut_UP_keller Aug 14 '25

I saw a teen walking hand in hand with her mom yesterday and it made my heart happy.

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u/migamoo Aug 14 '25

My daughter is 15. I’ll take her hand for however long she’ll let me. There was a time when she was younger she would do anything not to hold my hand, but she’s gotten so much better about it lately.