I am seriously in a fix today. I had a long talk with my daughter today and my head is reeling. We started with studies, moved on to career and finally reluctantly started talking about marriages. My daughter’s views have given me a three sixty degrees spin. I don’t know what is happening to present generation.

According to my daughter, everyone must elope and get married in their life. She feels that otherwise life is very boring and marriage sans any adventure. Now I never associated marriage with an adventure but my daughter thinks otherwise. He head is full of movies where couples elope and get married on a journey. She finds the idea highly romantic and has some serious plans to follow the example.

I am very troubled by all this. I tried a lot to get sense into my daughter’s head but she was simply not willing to listen to me. She gave me DAD YOU WON’T UNDERSTAND -stare. Why in the world will I not understand? I also married her mom. My wife’s parents were against our wedding but we never thought about getting eloped. The idea simply didn’t come to us.

My daughter has already made up her mind that I won’t like the guy she will choose to get married to. I don’t think I am a very rigid or fussy father. If the guy will be reasonably sensible, I have no problems to them getting married. I want my daughter to happy above all. Nothing else matters. When I told this to my daughter, Instead of becoming happy, she became rather serious and sad. It was like I had thrown water on her dreams.

She really wants me to behave like a bad daddy forcing her to rebel and finally eloping to get married. This is foolish. Only God knows how such ideas get into the heads of kids nowadays. If you really want to have an adventure, then there are several thousand ways- why to make the poor dad a villain? I don’t understand this at all.

When I asked my daughter if she liked someone, she gave me a very mysterious stare. She is hardly fifteen. I am getting jittery now. I have no idea if she has made some fantabulous plan with someone as kiddish as she is. I need to find out soon about it. I will talk to my wife about it. But I know she will just laugh it off. She will say that I am too old fashioned. She always abhors the idea of interfering too much in the life of kids. But will you call it interference? I call it saving my kids. They are too young to take such big decisions.

I will find out today only. Let me take your leave. Please take care. Bye.

The daughter was talking to her school friend on phone and narrating how she scared her dad like anything today. She was laughing so much. It was a prank that worked very well. The ‘common man’ heaved a sigh of relief. He was really happy now. He would have danced if he was not hiding underneath his daughter’s bed and listening to her conversation with her school friend.