Is your child like you?

DS my double : looks, personality, sense of humour, the lot

DD: ditto, her father ! If I catch a glimpse of her at the right angle I can just see a flash of me but it's incredibly fleeting. I'm so pleased for her though, her father is such a strong and confident person and I can really see that in her. It'll make her life that bit easier !

Our son looks shockingly like me. It's as if his dad's genes didn't really contribute. He also has ADHD (as do I). But his interests are much more aligned with his dad's (politics, current affairs, geography) and he's very adventurous and confident (I'm not).

Our daughter looks much more like her dad's side - same hair/eye/skin colour, slight build etc. Academically prefers "his" subjects. We are very close but she's soooo different to me. She does have some of my facial expressions but I think that's a learnt/nurture thing. Otherwise we don't look related. There is a big age difference between them and a few times people have says they assumed we were a blended family with a child each from earlier marriages (they are full blood siblings).

Our neighbour has twins, about 18 months old. Was watching them play in the garden today. The girl is happy as Larry, busy playing with different things and chatting/singing. The boy whinges and cries if he is put down for a moment. Genes are so random.

There were 4 of us. DB brown hair, blue eyes, DS1 1blonde with green eyes, DS2 blonde, brown eyes. Me brown hair, green eyes. Both parents had dark hair & blue eyes!

Despite this my DF sometimes mistakenly calls me by his DS’s name, my DS also gets called by another DA name. Can’t see the similarities/resemblance myself but there must be something.

My DD looks like her DF, traits are both his & mine.

Yes, my son is my mini me. Personality, quirky little habits, looks.

He's also very like my mum! There's a photo of each of them at the same age and it's like twins.

DS1 is nothing like me- popular, good looking, sporty....He's also the spit of his estranged father, which is....not great.

DS2 is my absolute mini me.

My daughter looks very like me , my son like his father. But so different personality wise. I was a real fashionista but DD is totally opposite and preferrs a low key natural look. They both have rebelled against our rather wild teenage years by being rather conservative. No drinking , smoking or wild clubbing . Probably just as well as I would known all the signs!

DD1 is the spitting image of MIL and has the personality of her father. We don't even look related, which pathetically makes me quite sad.

DD2 is all me, looks and personality wise. Which I'm secretly rather pleased about!

DD is. She is my double, attitude and all. Didn’t realise how annoying I could be until she turned into a mini me 😁

DD looks and acts exactly like me!

Only thing she's got from her Dad is that she's sporty - I'm not at all

DD1 is a carbon copy of me and DD2 looks very much like my grandmother

Yep 16DD both facially looks like me and is an awful lot like me personality wise (to the point I have apologised to my parents for some of the traits!) There are differences - she has her Dads metabolism and singing voice (both of which I desperately would have wanted) and she loves dancing

DS is more like my parents actually but still looks a lot like me - again has DH singing voice! He is a bit more unique!

My DD is her dad with looks! But apparently has the same traits as I did when i was her age! She's also daddy's girl! Sometimes wonder if she notices me in the room when he's around 🤣

I have an adopted son who came to me quite late in adoption terms- nearly 8.
So he obviously looks nothing like to me, we aren't even the same ethnicity.
However over the last 13 years he has become very like me in mannerisms and interests, the way we do certain things, habits, apart from the fact that I have a northern accent and he has a southern one, he also has some of the same speech traits and of course we have our family in jokes.
In some ways we are the complete opposite which is what you would expect really

My 2 are nothing like me, nor DH. The eldest looks a bit like me though.

Two of mine take after DH and his side of the family exactly and my other one is my brother all over. None of them look related to me or have my personality or mannerisms at all. I assumed my genes would be stronger/dominant with the darker hair and eyes but no. All blonde hair and blue eyes.

One. All adults now. One in five (child 4) looks like me at same age, now 20, and is like me. I sometimes quite like the personality traits of the others (better), but I do completely understand that One.

None of my kids look anything like me, but both my daughters have my exact personality! Too soon to tell really with my son but he seems more like his dad so far.

I think DS was created without any influence from his father. He is the spitting image of me, acts like me, had a temper and personality like me … lucky really as his dad is a deadbeat who he hardly sees!

My daughter was my copy and paste as a baby, except I had black spikey hair and she had black curly hair. She’s mixed raise by has my white skin. She’s 11 now and is a white copy & paste of her dad 🤦🏻‍♀️ she has his legs, but my upper half of the body in terms of shape. Personality wise she’s me through & through much to her dads annoyance 😂 funnily enough her wee brother through her dad and stepmom is her image when she was his age (9 months) she does have my mannerisms and facial expressions. The only difference is I’m quite direct and straight to the point no nonsense and she’s really soft and chicken hearted. X

The only thing of mine he seem to me to have is a certain trick of expressions, and really brilliant facial recognition.

An actor in a supporting role in one film he saw several years ago reappearing on a panel show three stone heavier or lighter, bald, different facial hair and accent, and DS and I will immediately know him. DH will stare at us bemused and say ‘Who? Nope, never saw him before in my life’.

(My proudest facial recognition moment recently was recognising a Danish actor in a supporting role in Kobra Kai last seen advertising Statoil in Irish tv in the early 90s.)

My 10mo DD looks very similar to how I looked as a baby, and it's obvious she's my baby. Personality is yet to be determined 😁

When they were younger they were all spitting image of their dad but as they’ve got older, they look more like me, particularly the oldest. Personality wise oldest is more like me - stubborn and quick tempered, middle is a summer like his dad. Youngest has a very sunny disposition unlike any of us 🤣

No , I don’t think so, sometimes you just get a unique kid who doesnt fit any ‘mould’.

DS1 looks like DH and is similar to him in personality. DD is more of a mixture of the two of us. DS2 is a bit like DH in looks, but isn't really like either of us in personality.