Families: Dads And Daughters

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Charlie Fitzgerald, 41, the CEO of an executive-training organization in Las Vegas, has two daughters, ages 13 and 15, and a stepdaughter, 13. He carpools his daughters to school in the morning, plays ball on the lawn with them some evenings and frequently takes them out for family bowling nights. Fitzgerald, who played a year of pro football with the San Diego Chargers, says some of his fondest memories are of the old days, when his girls were little. "I've been down on the floor playing with Barbies with them," he says. "I just try to put my girls in situations where they feel good, because the greatest relationships in the world are the result of knowing how to talk and how to listen." Daughter Jamie, 13, agrees: "My dad is really on top of what's going on with us. I come to him with a lot of things, and he seems to know what to do." It's by being there for their daughters that fathers can show they really do know best.