r/GirlDads

Hey everyone. I tried to post this yesterday but I'm new to reddit and I don't think it went through so I'm trying again. Dad to three girls (7, 4, and 2) here. They're my whole world and honestly my biggest source of inspiration for pretty much everything I do these days.

Wife and I got fed up with the junk that kept ending up on our TV whenever YouTube was on for the kids. So I decided to try and create an animated series based on my girls' actual personalities, things they love...7yo is a ballerina, 4 yo scientist and 2yo little explorer.

I'm not a professional animator or designer. I edited a company video about some heavy machinery about 10 years ago thats about it... But I taught myself over the past couple months and made three episodes so far. My girls watch them on repeat and ask for "their show" by name now, which honestly might be the proudest I've felt about a project in a long time. Rather have them watching this then the other stuff. PBS its pretty solid, but Youtube is stealing their attention with weird unboxing vids and rich influencer families...

My wife's been pushing me to actually put it out there instead of just keeping it for our living room so I finally did.

Curious what you all think — as fellow girl dads, does this resonate? Anyone else doing something like this? Would love feedback, and happy to share a link to the first episode if anyone's curious.

4 kids, 50/50 custody for 5 years now, week on/week off; 3 girls, boy is the youngest, 7 through 17. My youngest daughter is 10yo, and getting close to the age her sisters entered puberty.

LOTS of emotions.😳 And they're HUGE. Oldest is autistic, though, and middle daughter went through this while we were going through the divorce so I wasn't always paying as close attention as I should, but she's always been on the quiet side anyways. So third girl, but I'm still a noob apparently.

I just can't tell how much is normal or not. Mom is diagnosed bipolar, so there's a family history of way over the top out of control emotions, which makes me worry.

Like I just picked her up from a 2 night sleepover with family friends whose kids are all relatively the same ages as mine, and she immediately started complaining about herz friend, and by the time we got home (less than a mile drive) she was almost in melt down mode. There's something almost every day that has her over the edge, and she flips like a switch. Try to calm her down at all (take some deep breath, take a break, etc.), she feels attacked, and cries and yells more. Keeps hitting her little brother, but she's so over the top I can't tell if she's making stuff up when she does it or not. So I have to just stop the immediate situation, or send both of them to their rooms.

I have her in therapy once every week she's with me (mom isn't interested in helping) but she never wants to talk to her therapist about anything at all- doesn't even want to go in the office without me- so I guess I'm hoping you guys can tell me your stories about preteen girl hormones so I can get an idea whether or not I should push some sort of diagnosis with her therapist. I can deal with allot, but I really worry if I'm dealing with it right.