"Today, I went through my 15 year old daughter's internet history." That's snooping. Learn to read.

Lol autocomplete? So you think OP actually typed in "excuses to get..."? There is obviously something already wrong with your relationship if you take the time to go through her history, I'm not surprised she doesn't want to go out with you, and I've never heard of anyone having a designated "father daughter day". But don't get too down - I spent most of my life ignoring all of my dads phone calls and making excuses as to why I couldn't visit him, but I'm older now and a lot less immature and things are different - your daughter is only 15, she'll grow up in time.

if it was the home computer, he wouldn't have said it was his daughter's history. and if it WAS the home computer, he doesn't know that it was her going on that website. yes, i know it says "how to get away from dad" but really, she's not the only one in the house with a dad

Your 14 and you talk like that? I feel sorry for you.

Dude if you're 14 then that paragraph you just constructed was made of pure awesome. +1 internetz to you.

*high five*

#52, I was thinking along the same lines as you when you said maybe OP was checking the internet history as a way to get familiar with who she is. Maybe the daughter didn't open up much to her father whenever they talked, and that's why he felt like he needed to see what kind of things she was interested in by checking out the internet history. I don't think he was being untrusting or trying to snoop, just trying to get to understand his daughter so he could have things to talk to her about on their father-daughter day.

Blocking channels on the TV = blocking websites on the internet Digging through trash = going through internet history ^^ both help you know her better. I'm just kidding on that part actually. But if he really wanted to get to know her, he really should just try to talk to her. If it's that personal, it's better coming from her at her own pace rather than through internet history. And if we can't judge that dad, we can't judge the girl. For all we know, it was a pop-up.

Yeah, I thought about that, but I was thinking more along the lines of the daughter just shrugged or whatever whenever the OP asked if she liked something. I'm having difficulty explaining, but you've probably seen it before; daughter is daddy's little girl until she hits 13, then whenever father asks if she likes something (like a popular band, certain food, or whatever) daughter just gives a "i don't care, you're lame, go away" kind of shrug. And after long enough of that, the father realized it was impossible to talk to her then went to his last resort of turning to the interwebz. It's just what I think could have possibly have happened. I don't think he was snooping or trying to find anything bad, or even trying to protect her. Just trying to understand her.

Oh, assuredly, it's better to talk to her, but it seems she doesn't want to talk. I doubt a pop-up is going to show up in search history.

#139, not to be obnoxious, but pop-ups do appear in my history, no matter which type of computer I use. And I get that she's probably closed off to him, and you know if going through her internet is his way of parenting, well...that's his way. But I doubt he could pull of a conversation from what he found in her history. I mean, my history right now probably has fmylife, which couldn't really start a conversation, facebook, and of course, without the password it's useless, and youtube, and unless you watch those things, you don't really have much to talk about with it. Idk...I think she'll open up to him eventually. I mean, we were all like that at some point, but we grew out of it and came around ourselves without our parents going through our things. But that's just me.

No no, it's the SEARCH history on GOOGLE (or, apparently, the google bar in her browser) that he was looking at in particular, not her history in general. Pop ups won't show there, but, yes, they may show in your URL bar. Yeah, he probably wouldn't find anything in particular, if she's a typical 15-year-old, but obviously he's going to try, just in case. Maybe she looked up a particular movie she's interested in seeing? Of course she'll come around eventually, we mostly do, but he wants to spend time with her now before then, because usually by then they're "too grown up" (meaning, it's difficult to spend time together because she's got more important things to do; college, her job, etc).

if it was her "search history on google" he would have said that, but he said internet history. i mean, i know you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it is what it is. and there isn't really a search history on google you can check...as far as i know

okay, sorry. it's been a while since i've read the fml. you were right. but on the other hand, she could have searched it on purpose...as a joke