Are you like your mum?

[Fuschia]

Or dad, as the case may be...

[Ruth_Baldock]

I find myself saying a lot of the same things as Mum. My sister was keeping an eye on Seb the other afternoon, and she fed him a yoghurt. It went everywhere, obviously. I came into the living room and said "Jesus Mary and joseph; what the Sam hill is going on??!!!!" and my sister said "god, you've turned into Mum!"

My husband on the other hand; nothing like his dad. My FIL is very laid back and easy going,

my husband is...highly strung? Interesting the way it works, I've got a terrible relationship with my Mum but can see myself becoming more and more like her whereas my husband has a very goodrelationship like his parents and is nothing like either of them...

[srisky]

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

[ryedalema]

I thank goodness my OH is not like his Dad, who sadly is now dying from the after affects of years of alcoholism. I do wish he were a little bit more like my Dad though? How Freudian is that???

I'm terribly like my Mum - weep at any little sad or proud moment. Entirely sentimental. Always trying to calm warring family factions. I used to despair of her (when I was a teenager), now I wish to goodness she was around and could meet her grand daughters :(

What wasted years we spend as adolescents, trying to escape...sorry Mum! I love you :)

[Belle]

I'm like them both - historically was likened to my dad (not necessarily his best bits either) but like many women, find myself 'turning into' my mum as I get older, saying similar things to my son as she said to me, having similar responses etc. I wish I had more of their best bits though. My mum is much more level headed than me, I'm highly strung like my dad.

In some ways though, SOOO different. My mum will arrive into King's Cross on the train late at night and travel to ED by public transport - it would not cross her mind to ever get a cab, no matter how late. Not in a skin flint way, just v pragmatic. I am completely the opposite. She is horrified by our literal attitude towards 'best before' dates and that we don't routinely keep leftovers from takeaways etc.

I feel quite sentimental about this subject (I feel you Ryedalema!) as my dad died in my teens, so I only have a 'child's view' of him really. Wd love to know how we'd get on nowadays and what we'd agree/disagree on re parenting.