Your daughter is an extremely fortunate young girl. To have a parent, especially a father, who actively reworks narratives that restrict what she can dream about becoming - that is a rare and priceless gift.

I'm not a parent but I grew up surrounded by ideas of how I should be - not from my parents, I was very lucky that way - but from relatives, school and friends. To be able to ignore all that, one needs a very firm core, a strong sense of who one is.

This is where parents can help. They can decide to limit and jail their children's potential to society's conventions, or they can equip the youngsters with the tools and the mentality to soar and be all they can be.