March 2023. My daughter was born. By this point I've already been documenting my life in a digital journal for ten years straight. I start a second journal just for her. Just one photo and one sentence every day. Low maintenance, low pressure.

I've kept a daily journal since 2013, so I know the power of documenting your life. But when I looked for tools to help me preserve my daughter's childhood, I found nothing built for this specific need. Baby apps focused on feeding schedules and nappy counts. Social media demanded performance over observation. Photo apps were just... storage.

Nothing was designed to last 18 years. Nothing treated this content as the precious family history it actually is.

Then, during therapy, something clicked. I realised how many of my adult patterns—my reactions, my fears, my strengths—were rooted in early childhood. I started asking my mum more questions: What was I like as a toddler? When did certain behaviours start? How did I respond to change?

Those conversations were revelatory. I began to understand myself in ways I simply couldn't before.

That's when I knew: the journal I'm creating for my daughter isn't just sentimental. It's genuinely valuable. When she's 25 and trying to understand why she is the way she is, she'll have a detailed record—written in my voice, capturing who she was before memory formed.

Some parents send emails to their future children. Some scribble notes in baby books. Others have thousands of photos with no story connecting them. Chapter One brings all of this together into one reliable, secure, long-term home.

We're in the early days of building this, and we're doing it with parents, not just for them. If you join the waitlist now, you'll be part of a founding group of thoughtful parents on the same journey—documenting childhood in a way that will matter decades from now.

I’m Chris, a proud girl dad from Northern Ireland with two amazing daughters. I started Proud Girl Dad Co. in June 2025, going live on Father’s Day. The idea came to me in a hospital room in July 2024 while waiting for my wife to give birth to our second baby girl. In that moment, I realised how passionate I am about being a girl dad and the bond that comes with it. I thought, what if there was a space and a brand that truly celebrated that? Not sports, not trends, but fatherhood itself. I claimed the Instagram handle that very day, the same day my daughter was born. The mission is simple: this isn’t just a brand. It’s a mindset and a community. We’re here to raise strong, gutsy girls who know they can do anything, and to make sure they always know their dad is right there, cheering them on. Every dad’s story looks different. The school runs, the bedtime chats, the little wins. PGD is about celebrating all of it. This is just the beginning, and I’d love you to be part of it. Because being a girl dad isn’t a role you play. It’s who you are.