The answer? The father of two daughters (including six-year-old Persephene) says spending quality time with your children can help set standards for their future spouses down the road.
鈥淚t sets the expectations of how I expect other boys to treat my daughters. That whole teen years (period) is a difficult one, especially for girls,鈥� he said.
Ocol sets simple 鈥済round rules鈥� for the monthly outing: They have to treat the time as a special occasion, meaning no jeans or the regular fast food fare. And he always tells his wife, Patty, when they will be back.
鈥淲hat that does is it sets the expectation that the boy she鱿鱼视频app going out with (should) make it clear to the family that they鈥檒l be back at a predetermined time and it鱿鱼视频app expected to be followed up,鈥� he said.
鈥淭here鱿鱼视频app a chivalry aspect to it,鈥� he added.
Aramayah says she enjoys the times when they walk along Harbourfront to get ice cream at Baskin Robbins. (Her favourite is pineapple, orange and strawberry.)
鈥淲e go on walks, get more exercise and go for dinner,鈥� she said. They鈥檙e opportunities for heart-to-heart talks with dad, as well as hearing about his childhood and the pranks her father and his best friend used to pull.
But most of all, Ocol explains that this time together helps to build memories and cement the father-daughter bond.
Recently, Aramayah asked her dad to take her motorcycle riding, a passion that Ocol has had for many years. (He owns two vintage motorcycles and started an online group for motorcycle enthusiasts called dotheton.com.)
So is he comfortable with his daughters dating a guy with a motorcycle? Ocol muses, 鈥淢aybe.鈥� Any potential suitor will have to meet dad and the family first.
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Father prepares daughters for the dating world
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Dating is the farthest thing from nine-year-old Aramayah Ocol鱿鱼视频app mind. She prefers walking to the ice cream store with her dad. No one matches up to 鈥淒addy.鈥�
That鱿鱼视频app just how Noel Ocol hopes it will be, that is until Aramayah is old enough to be courted by potential suitors.
Ocol, a 39-year-old parishioner at St. Mary鱿鱼视频app Catholic Church in downtown Toronto, started a blog 鈥淟ike Father, Like Daughters鈥� for Our Kids Media, an online magazine for private schools.
鈥淪o how can I as a dad be proactive against a world where modern pop-culture causes girls to see themselves as a sexual objects and packages love as something from a vending machine where you put your money in, get what you want and throw the rest out?鈥� he asks in his blog.
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