Growing up

The other day, Mommy said to me as we were talking about growing today she felt children missed an involved father in their lives who was strong and prepared to show them the right way to go about things.
She went on to say she felt Mommies ofter were too interested in being a friend  to their children to really discipline them.
I was flummoxed as she'd never allowed my Daddy to be My Daddy in that way even though I wanted as his daughter for him to be my 'Papa Bear', taking me in hand for spankies except when she was out and both of us would say nothing about  it.
I so wanted a man who was going to be a Father to me.