In my experience it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging especially for fathers.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari sometimes want a pickup truck...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.