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| Wed, 08-25-2010 - 8:54am |
are there things your children do/ways your children are that remind you of yourself when you were their age?
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Actually surprisingly (to me any way) I have not seen many similarity over the years. Part of could be from very different childhoods. I lived in the same town (two houses) until I left MI at 20 to join the Air Force. They were Air Force brats and lived in multiple places.
Part of it could be different personalities, I am much more introverted than my DDs. DD2 and DD3 are about as far apart from me on the extrovert side as possible.
My DDs are much more "grown up" in there 20's than I was at their same ages.
That's funny, it's the exact same here. Dh just says "apple-tree" too whenever he sees his kids doing something just like him, or my kids doing something just like me.
A big one I that happened recently, is that as long as I can remember when I was really upset I would go in the bathroom and lock myself in. My youngest daughter just started doing this, even though she's never seen me actually do it (I really do not do it anymore, but I used to). Anyway, a few weeks ago she began doing this out of nowhere, she's only 3 years old! Pretty much as soon as she figured out she can lock and unlock the doors, she decided this would be her way to retreat when she was upset. I think it's kind of freaky.
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The can't eat without spilling food on oneself went from my mother to me to DD1.
I tend to be clumsy and also to hurt myself in unusual ways so whenever my DDs do the same "like mother, like daughter" usually is mentioned.
A big one I that happened recently, is that as long as I can remember when I was really upset I would go in the bathroom and lock myself in. My youngest daughter just started doing this
i wonder if she picked that up from watching you or if it's an internal sense.
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