A serious question.

I ask this question because I've always wanted to get married and have kids. Still do, probably will if I can find a woman. We can all hope.

But one thing that keeps bothering me...

How, exactly, do you survive having a teenage daughter?

I'm 24. I find teenage girls to be...anathema to me. I have a hard time describing it. The randomness, the shallow interests, skittish behavior etc... Now, I'm a reasonable man, and I'm a scientist to boot. I know that not all girls are like this. But...and correct me if I'm wrong here...it almost seems that teenage girlhood is a time and place much like the twilight zone. And it does a hell of a lot to explain the way women act later in life.

Again, don't get me wrong. I like women. Maybe too much =) But I've seen...and heard some things...

And the shrieking. Ohhhh the shrieking. And (and this is part of what confuses me) it's typically a Joy reaction. A noise I once associated with being knifed by a serial killer, is now so commonplace, that, were anyone to use it for that more sensible purpose, I would ignore it and assume that Boy Band X just got a new member.

So help me here, fathers that read this Blog (if there are any). And enlighten me as to how one manages to not only live with, but successfully parent such a creature.

I'm all ears.


Alexi