Parents of older children - did your babies/toddlers keep their personality traits?

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My DD is 1 1/2. She is a lively, funny and inquisitive little girl. She is also very stubborn and very strong willed! A friend commented to me the other day that "she's going to be a handful as a teenager!"

I'm certainly not going to worry about teenage years just yet, but it did make me interested as to how much their little personalities as a toddler reflect their future personalities. I have loved getting to know her as she develops, so I guess I'm just curious really.

I realise that her personality will change, but I wander how much that stubborn streak is a taste of the future!

Absolutely yes

Following as I have a 16 month old and have been wondering the same thing...she is a sweet, gentle little girl, but when comfortable she can be a bit of a wild animal 😂

Yep, my boys have continued to be very similar to how they were even as tiny babies in terms of their natures, am hoping baby DD continues to be as chilled as she is now when she gets older!

Yes most definitely. A quiet but very bright son only ever wanted to play with cars as soon as he got his first toy car. Studied motor sport engineering got 1st class degree works in the design sector, go karts F1 fanatic ( like me ) Still quietly smart.
2nd son cheeky funny bit naughty & hated school from age 5. left school at 16 just finishing apprenticeship carpenter/ plastering etc. Still funny but with solid moral compass out with friends a lot. So basically yes they stayed the same and although different go out together as brothers which I love.

No, not at all. My DD was a good eater and still is at 16. But she was a fairly easy going baby and is not an easy going teen (very precise and disciplined Actually now that I type it, she did love her Gina Ford routine and still loves a routine!). My DS was a grumpy difficult baby til about 2 (never smiled) and since then has been the smiliest, happiest child. He is so easy to please. I'm sure there are other aspects that they have kept but my first response is that they did change.

OP while she is strong willed that could work for her and with you! It's only a problem if she's rebelling. If she's strong willed about getting top grades or not following the wrong crowd then: hooray!

Yes, an absolute nightmare, handful, over active, banging, fiddling, messing, tinkering, kid. Only difference is that he sleeps longer than 2 hours a night now he is a teenager.
He makes me anxious and I constantly worry about him, the same since before he was born.
He is "unique", always was and still is . God only knows what he is going to do in life.

Ds 2, completely different, in every way, calm, kind, listens, can be taught, open to guidance, sensible. These traits are continuing as he grows.

Interesting that most people say yes! I can be a bit of a people pleaser, which isn't always great. So I do kinda hope she hangs onto her strong will, even if it drives me nutty at times!

Yes
Although much easier to see it looking back than imagining what a baby will be like when they grow up

Strong willed as a baby, strong willed as a toddler, will of fucking iron as a 6 year old.

My other one was relentlessly miserable as a baby, utterly and totally discontented every time she couldn't do anything -and is now the happiest natured little 5 year old going.

I had a grumpy, miserable baby who's now a very happy and outgoing preschooler (thank God!)

Every baby I’ve known well ( nieces, nephews, my own) came out of the womb with a fully developed personality. I’ve always believed that. I too have one of those strong willed lovely funny girls! She’s just a mini version of my brother and not like me. I’m a people pleaser too. I hate it about myself.

Yes mine all did. :-)

My three have continued with personality traits they had as babies. Eldest - very focussed, self-contained, independent - played for up to an hour on his own quite happily at 3 months old, solitary child. Moved out at 18 and lives alone but very sociable. Middle child - clingy baby, sociable, remains very much a people person, still lives at home as an adult. Youngest - another clinger, shy, anxious child, has grown into himself and now quite sociable and quietly confident.