For good or for bad...do you see traits of yourself in your children. Things that you are proud of? Things you wish to change?

My oldest son is soon to be 9. I've learned alot about myself by just watching him. There are things about myself that I now realize were inherited traits. For example...he is a loner, as was I. I always attributed my inability to foster many friendships to the fact that I changed schools five times in my first 6 years of schooling. Yet...my son has been with the same kids for the past 5 years, and he doesn't have any true "best" friends. My other 2 kids have more friends than they can handle. So, I passed on my introverted genes to Junior.

What else I wonder?

Lucy and I have similiar eating habits (AKA slobby).

As far as features my daughter got my big eyes but her eyelashes are way longer than mine, her eyes are gorgeous. She also loves music as I do and can listen to it all day long, we dont have the same music taste, she doesnt like Prince but what kid her age does? not many. One thing that she does that I did as a kid was listen to songs and write down the lyrics in a notebook and she does the same thing and she never knew that I did that.

unfortunately, i c both my husband and myself in our son- all of our bad habits

mine- biting nails, being messy & being a chocoholic
hubby- quick,firey temper & snoring

but he is a kind ,compassionate little boy most of the time, so hopefully that came from us as well

I don't have any kids of my own BUT I do have a niece whom I raised until her parents decided they were ready to do it. Anyway, to say I didn't give birth to her, I'll be damn if girlfriend doesn't have ALL of my traits. The girl's a "Go Getter", that's something all of us had a hand in teaching her. If you see something you want then put in the time and the work and go get it. She just graduated from high school last weekend and today her dad drove her up to college for a six week summer program she enrolled herself in before classes start in the fall. Baby girl fears nothing in the world and knows there's nothing she can't do. She's also a people magnet, the girls got associates out the ass and then she has the small group of people who are her friends. Learning the difference between the two as a painful life lesson she had to learn a couple of years back. Now she knows that there is a difference between associates and friends and who her true friends are. She's my mini me... and it drives her parnets nuts.

Yep

not unless i'm looking in the mirror while having sex
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My daughter and her opinions sooooo me.

She was telling me that she had an "opinion" when she was like five and would get really upset if you didn't let her express herself.

She is still the same.

Opinionated and relentless....love it though

She looks NOTHING like me at all which makes life funny because most ppl will look at her and then look at me like okayyyyy.

LORD YES

very much so

I can see both myself and my husband in them mixed with their own very individual personalities and looks

I have and always will feel deply blessed to be their mother and friend

amazing souls all 4 of them

yes, both of them. they both love music and are into P ( yes even the 12 year old) both are silly and theatrical. when we are all together there is so much laughter it's amazing. my oldest is an extrovert like me my youngest is more introverted, but in quiet moments I see my self in her. She is more like my hubby, a watcher, in social situations. But they are mine people can see it a mile away, and I get those looks too Rhonda when I am with my youngest

I see too much of myself in both of them when they're upset....they lack the filter between brain and mouth.....so the first thing they think, they say...which pisses their mother off to no end....they're both music buffs....and they have weird senses of humor....

my son is literally my spitting image....smile, mannerisms....but his emotions are closer to his mother....he's a loner but when he warms up, he's a chatterbox.... my daughter is the smart-ass, stubborn spitting image of me...very argumentative....but she's definitely no wilting flower.....the girl is predisposed to pointing out BS...she looks like her mom, but damn if she's not a younger me in drag.....

Oh yeah...


funniest thing is that my niece looks like a biracial me!! I love it because it gets on my sister in laws nerves when ppl call my niece, "lil rhonda".

She also is a little reserved like I was a kid and my daughter acts like my brother as far as being outgoing and talkative as a child.

Weird.

Other than the three of them looking just like me, no my kids are nothing like me.

Lothan said:

beautiful avie