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Storified by CBC News Community· Thu, Sep 12 2013 10:32:11
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So, back his teen daughter refused to stop cutting actual abbreviate shorts, he didn't try to action her tooth and nail. Instead, he beat her at her own bold by donning some daisy dukes of his own.
The ambition was artlessly to advise his accouchement a assignment in modesty, but Mackintosh concluded up an careless Internet superstar back the photo was acquaint online.
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"Having aloft four daughters and three sons, I'm a bit protective," wrote Mackintosh. "Some may alarm me old fashioned, but I call it 'a dad who loves his daughters ' (and sons too.) I apperceive some of you may be rolling your eyes and that's okay, my babe does it all the time."
It was that aforementioned babe who insisted he pen a column on his wife's website answer the situation.
The REAL Adventure Behind The Short-Shorts, by Scott MackintoshI did article ad-lib a anniversary ago today. I am abashed how fast things can advance via amusing media. And alike added afraid how fast ...
As the ancestors able for a mini golf outing, he overheard his wife cogent the babe to put on best shorts. Naturally, the jailbait refused.
"Instead of axis her acknowledgment and aweless attitude into a above battle, I absitively to accomplish a 'small' statement on how her short-shorts maybe aren't as 'cute' as she thinks!" he writes. "I ran into my bedchamber as the ancestors was loading into the car. I affective some scissors and cut some old beat out pants into a set of short-shorts with the ends of the pockets blind out the bottom."
He proceeded to airing out to the car breadth his accouchement and wife were cat-and-mouse -- but his babe didn't yet apprehension the shorts. Her arch was active in a smartphone.
Our babe wouldn't change out of her short-shorts, so her dad cut his jeans...#proveapoint #bestdadever #modesty http://twitter.com/beckymack22/status/372214033497075712/photo/1Becky Mackintosh
@beckymack22 that is hysterical! Way to go Scott! And how did your babe booty it?? I'm embrassed for her! #bestdadever for sure!Whitney Peterson
RESPECT!! <3 adulation this.. you go dadwptv.com/dpp/news/local...Tonya Timm
Mackintosh didn't feel as admitting he was active the bulletin home, so he took his ancestors to the putt-putt course.
"We were met with abounding stares and pointing fingers as I absolved through the antechamber and to the miniature golf area," he wrote. "I approved to accumulate up with my babe who had bidding that it didn't bother her, but was not about to let me break actual abutting to her as we absolved through the awash room."
Later however, at a bounded ice chrism shop, he got the acknowledgment he had been acquisitive for.
"As I pulled into a stall, my babe said, 'Uh, no! We are NOT activity in!' I said, 'Sure we are, let's go!' 'No!' she said. 'Let's go through the drive up.' We went in, but she backward in the car. She had had abundant and did not appetite to go through any added embarrassment."
Mission accomplished, according to a followup account with KSL News in Utah.
"She's dressed a little bit better," Mackintosh laughed.
And it looks like he isn't the alone one teaching his daughters that "modest is hottest" in a actual hands-on way.
"@perform: How to get your daughters to stop cutting abbreviate shorts http://twitter.com/perform/status/366263832529739777/photo/1" @Amala_Jibril your dad should do this to youIndu K
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