Are you good at / known for the same thing as your parents?

[sonrisa]

Are you good at or known for the same thing as either of your parents? We act as if kids are going to be mini mes but if I look around at adults, that isn't the norm. 

[SusanBAnthony]

My brother, sister, and myself are all very similar to my dad in terms of what we are good at.

And we all get along much better with our mom lololol.

[aprilsails]

My Mom and I are both really strong public speakers.

My Dad and I are both into mechanical fix-it type stuff and are both more artistic and graphically and visually inclined. Like we are both really good at designing floor plan layouts. Lol.

[flex]

My mom was feisty and I am too.
I believe I got my introvertness from my dad.

[Gato]

No, not at all. My parents were both highly competent, disciplined people. They were administrators and sporty. My brother is a lot like them. I’m the family dreamer, known as a kid for always being off in space. Pretty much everything interesting I did as a young person, my dad came up with a practical argument about why I shouldn’t be doing it, lol.

[fivechickens]

Lol no.

My mom was into crafts. I have no patience for anything craft related. My mom was also pretty social. I am not.

My dad, well, I am nothing like him.

[mala]

My mom is an artist. I'd say I'm art adjacent. She's also known for baking, and so am I, tho we have very different baking styles/choices.

[lpcats]

In some ways, yes. My mother and I both love to cook and my father and I are artistic and technically inclined.

In other ways, no. Their house is always immaculate and my house is always a disaster.

[TR]

I don't think my parents nor I are really "known" for anything lol. My mom is a good singer and I am too (and so was my grandmother). But outside of my small group of friends no one really knows that. Except for you guys now, I guess. And you'll just have to take my word for it.

My dad is very intellectually curious and I am too, but it's not something we're known for, just a trait we share.

[purplinsky]

Not at all! Lol! My education and career are science/technology focused whereas my mother barely passed the one science course she needed to get her college degree. I'm not sure how well my father was in the sciences, but it definitely wasn't something he was know for. I have no expectations that my DD follows in my footsteps or is in anyway a mini-me. She is an amazing artist and loves video editing and I'm not good at that stuff, not like she is. She has a super creative mind and I know she didn't get it from me or her father.

[mcmel]

We all love animals and my mom likes true crime but that’s probably the end of the similarities.

My mom runs a daycare and my dad analyzes road issues. They’re always hanging out with the daycare babies after-hours for things like baseball games and such.

I don’t like kids at all, work as a forensic scientist, and try to dedicate every minute of my free time to my pets.

[gummybear]

Kind of. We are all anxious and neurotic. My mom is an excellent cook and passed that on to me. My dad and I are very similar personality wise.

However, my parents are intellectuals whereas I am not. They value education more than I do and have advanced degrees, and I don't. I believe this stems from a deep insecurity more than anything and always having to prove how non-working class they are.

It's actually a very complex situation and I think a lot more generational than anything. They are very old-school Irish Italian Catholic. They don't talk things out or bring up uncomfortable topics (if we ignore it it doesn't exist) - I am a huge proponent of therapy, much to their dismay.They are conventionally conservative and completely incapable of looking at anything through a broad lens. It's incredibly frustrating.

[Poppy]

Yes. I am in the same field as my dad, kind of by accident but I gravitated to it in college. I am also very similar to him in other ways.

My sister is very much like my mother, including her career, but I wouldn't let her catch me saying that. Lol.

[wildrice]

I don't think any of us are "known for" anything! My parents were a SAHM (who later became a nurse for a few years before retiring) and a lineman with the electric company. Neither are particularly artistic or talented in anything. I mean they are great people with a lot to offer so that sounds like I'm selling them short. They are known for being kind, generous people, so I guess you could say my sisters and I take after that part of them? They were and are great parents, and my sister is the only one with kids but I would say a lot of her parenting style probably aligns with theirs. My sister is also a SAHM so her family dynamic and marriage are probably more similar to my parents' in that way.

Neither of my parents even got a bachelor's degree so I am very different from them in that I work in higher ed, have an advanced degree, most of my friends/my spouse are highly educated, etc. My parents are both smart and would have been capable of earning degrees, but that's just not the direction they went. They are both very open minded and liberal, so I guess I take after that too. And my mom has pretty bad ADHD, which I also take after lol.

[isabel]

DH and I joke about our kids being like us, but it’s all in terms of mannerisms and personality quirks, not skill set and future job stuff. The only thing I really can point to in that regard is that both of our kids like non-fiction and are very inquisitive, traits they get from DH.

I like to read like my mom and we think similarly. Otherwise, I’m not sure there’s a lot of parallels to draw between me and either of my parents.

[melmel48]

No. Sometimes I wonder where I even came from. Lol.

[bex1973]

Nov 8, 2021 11:36:36 GMT -5 melmel48 said:

No. Sometimes I wonder where I even came from. Lol.

I'm in this same boat

[starburst604]

I am a lot like my mom in the way I speak and my overall mannerisms. We are both crafty, decent singers and are animal lovers. Our similarities end there though lol. From my dad I get my pragmatism and work ethic. My just get shit done and stop your bitching nature.

My DD definitely takes after my H in her athleticism, she's naturally good at all the sports she's tried, she's competetive and just really loves it. Her favorite ask is to go to the ball field with one of us and play catch, whiffleball, football, basketball and she also plays organized soccer and hockey. She did NOT get that from me! I love being active but I was a daisypicker when it came to sports. She's my H's dream child!!

[jinkies]

Nov 8, 2021 11:36:36 GMT -5 melmel48 said:

No. Sometimes I wonder where I even came from. Lol.

LOL Same. I am definitely the black sheep.

H on the other hand is very very similar to his parents: talented with anything mechanical, a natural with animals and gardening, and a born worrywart.

[Jalapeñomel]

No

[whattheheck]

I’m like my mom and my brother and sister are like my Dad. Mom loved to read and write and crochet and hated the water. Dad has a genius math brain, is great with power tools, and loves the water.

I miss my mom.

[gretchenindisguise]

My parents are both engineers.

But if you boil that down to problem solvers and troubleshooters, I do that but with people instead.

Oh and my dad and I are both known as the ones who can bake a great apple pie.

[gretchenindisguise]

My parents are both engineers.

But if you boil that down to problem solvers and troubleshooters, I do that but with people instead.

Oh and my dad and I are both known as the ones who can bake a great apple pie.

[circa1978]

I am nothing like my parents in terms of skills or personality. My mom is a retired teacher/elementary administrator and my stepdad was an engineer for Boeing. They are both incredibly precise, emotionally reserved, structured people. They are great at math, not into reading/writing/arts.

I became a journalist and now work in marketing. I can easily read several books in a day. I emote everywhere. I am a planner in middle age and I get that from them, I'm sure. My mom is also very, very much about appearance and I get more of that from her than I'd like, because I can be very uptight about those things.

DS is much more like my parents and I'm a lot like my maternal grandparents (both wrote poetry).

DH is basically a copy/paste of his parents in skills, interest, temperament.

[liverandonions]

My parents are both extroverts and I am as well.
My mom and I are both good at knowing dumb trivia - she's super good at crosswords, which I don't have the same talent for but I do seem to have a pretty good vocabulary. We're both better with English stuff and my Dad and sister are better with Math
My dad is a doctor, and I'm fairly good with medical terminology because of it
My dad is a good joke teller, and I've been told I am too
We're all decent singers

My mom is very clean, I am not.
My dad is annoyingly hard worker - like stays too late etc. I am not.
My mom is very selfish in regards to the dumbest shit "I can't believe they would serve iceberg lettuce - I hate iceberg lettuce" THE WORLD DOESN"T REVOLVE AROUND YOU! - I am not like this (i hope!)
My mom plays victim constantly - I don't
My dad is super judgemental - I have my moments but NOTHING like him. He's an asshole.

Overall I'm more like my mom and my sister is more like my dad

[Nonny]

Aside from being stubborn AF and liking to watch movies and to read, nope.

But I also wouldn't say any of us are really "known" for anything.

[gastro]

Not really …we have a bunch of “spicy” personalities between my mom, dad and sister so I’m very easy-going, probably to cope.

My oldest son and my dad are like the exact same person, just 65 years apart in age. My mom and I are always shocked with the mannerisms, interests and outtake on life. It probably saved my parents marriage because now all the things that once annoyed my mom she finds endearing because her grandson is that way.

[abs]

I am more like my mom than my dad I think.

We are both social introverts, very organized, love to read, enjoy the arts (she played an instrument, I danced), love to watch musicals, love to go out to eat. I am more athletic than she is.

My dad is more science/math oriented.

DD is basically a carbon copy of DH so far with a little bit of my athleticism mixed in. She is not like me at all in personality or skills/what she enjoys.

[mrsukyankee]

Yes. My dad and I are both psychotherapists and sporty.

[mel]

I am nothing like either parent. However, DH is so much like my dad it's scary. My mom and I remark all the time about how DH must be a long lost son of my dad's because of how similar they are.