Parents of boys become their best cheerleaders. Raise them to be terrific men, excel in academics, great grades, good colleges. We are on their bench every day, rooting them on. They meet a princess and manipulative family and suddenly you are off the bench and kicked out of the game. Parents of boys are expected to suspend their love for their sons.
That is the reality. Hence the old saying - A daughter is a daughter for life and a son is a son until he takes a wife.
They always know I will be both father and friend. No one is perfect and always try to do better tomorrow.