Do your children have any resemblance with you?
By dpk262006
@dpk262006 (58675)
Delhi, India
October 23, 2015 2:34am CST
Hello everyone!
Since the beginning of human history, people have wondered how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. Although children often look more like one parent than the other, most offspring appear to be a blend of the characteristics of both parents.
What about you? Do your children resemble you or your spouse or both? And how do you feel when someone points it out to you – “Hey! Your son/daughter looks like a copy of you?”
PS - The picture accompanying the post is just symbolic representation.
Also, have your children inherited characteristics of you or your spouse or both?
PS - The picture accompanying the post is just symbolic representation.
Since the beginning of human history, people have wondered how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. Although children often look more like one parent than the other, most offspring appear to be a blend of the characteristics of both parents.
What about you? Do your children resemble you or your spouse or both? And how do you feel when someone points it out to you – “Hey! Your son/daughter looks like a copy of you?”
PS - The picture accompanying the post is just symbolic representation.
Also, have your children inherited characteristics of you or your spouse or both?
PS - The picture accompanying the post is just symbolic representation.31 people like this
36 responses
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
It is said that if a daughter looks like her father, she would be lucky in her life.
Oh! she is not talkative and speak less like your husband?
Is your hubby not God fearing, only you?
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
@SIMPLYD - When he regularly goes to Church with you, then he must be God fearing (or is he wife fearing 
?)
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
23 Oct 15
@dpk262006 Oh yes he is . He goes to church with me on Sundays but on most days , he is busy over something he won't .
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@rahulvsmokiee (3110)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
23 Oct 15
Lol! my brother and me looks similiar to our dad. But the important thing is not just in resemblance, but also behavior like our parents is what matters more.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
It is great to hear that you and your brother look alike. Are you twins?
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@rahulvsmokiee (3110)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
23 Oct 15
@dpk262006 Not at all. I said that having resemblence never matter with parents. What matter is the behavior of parents can be guessed from their children
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
@rahulvsmokiee - Do you feel that you both behave like your parents?
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@dodo19 (47126)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
27 Oct 15
I think my eldest looks more like my husband, while with my two youngest may be a bit of both. Although I've heard that my eldest looks like me, and my two youngest like my husband and such. I can see how people may think they look like me or my husband. I do think my eldest' temperament is like mine in some ways. When she gets mad, she needs time to just be mad, let it out, and just feel what she's feeling. I can be like that as well. When I get mad, I just need a few minutes to myself to be mad.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
27 Oct 15
@dodo19 Yes, it would be better to keep a check on your emotions. A four year old kid getting mad seems strange to me.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
27 Oct 15
Oh! I see your eldest daughter not only looks like you but she has inherited your traits also. What makes you and her to loose your temper, means do you both go mad on the same things/issues?
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@dodo19 (47126)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
27 Oct 15
@dpk262006 well, it's hard to say if it's the same issues, as she is only four. But I can still see how she does take after me in that way. Staying calm and not losing our tempers is a work in progress for both of us.
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@vandana7 (99036)
• India
23 Oct 15
I don't know whom I resemble. I bet I was exchanged in the hospital. They did not have proper system perhaps, and my exchanged mother was simply too naive to realize I was not her baby. lol. Kidding. Some say I resemble dad, others say I resemble mom, and I say they all have sight problems.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
You were probably exchanged if you do not resemble either your mother or father.
if you do not resemble either your mother or father.1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
26 Oct 15
@vandana7 - At this point of time it is of no use to go for DNA test. 
@vandana7 (99036)
• India
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 ..For the record, I asked dad for DNA test and he did not agree.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
OH! I see one of your nieces look like you. How do you feel when someone says that your niece looks a copy of you?
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@wiLLmaH (8801)
• Singapore, Singapore
26 Oct 15
@dpk262006 I am very proud haha! Because she do not look like her mom. Haha! her mom always tells me that because I look like her daughter, I should be the one sending her to school. I should be the one pay for her daughter's school expenses. Haha!
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
26 Oct 15
@wiLLmaH - Oh! Your sister appears very smart because she wants you to bear her daughter's expenses because you both look alike.
You could tell your sister that you will go to your niece's school to attend her parents-teacher meeting (which is generally held in schools once in a month) and would tell her class teacher that you are her mother.
If you say so (even jokingly) then see your sister's reaction.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
5 Nov 15
@dpk262006 Physically I can't say that they have much from me, except my deep blue eyes.
@GardenGerty (157769)
• United States
28 Oct 15
To me my children strongly resemble their father, who is deceased, but others tell me how they look like me. I look at pictures of me and see my mom. I actually see resemblance of my kids to their other grandmother (dad's mom) and great grandmother (dad's grand mother). They are a special blend of "us".
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
You mean to say that your children not only resembled their late father but they have shads of their parental great grandmother and grandmother also. In that case they are really special. 
@marguicha (216136)
• Chile
28 Oct 15
My eldest resembles my late husband although her skin is a different colur. As for my youngest,, she resembles me but her body is more like my mother in law´s.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
So one of your daughters is like your late hubby and the second one is like you. Have your daughters inherited your traits/characteristics?
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
@marguicha - Your eldest daughter's personality is like you, hope it makes you feel proud of her.
@marguicha (216136)
• Chile
28 Oct 15
@dpk262006 In personality, my eldest is more like myself and the youngest is like my husband. I have always wondered if that is in part because my eldest is a Gemini like me and my youngest a Libra like my husband
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@much2say (53942)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Oct 15
My kids are half Asian (from my side as you know) and half Caucasian. Even though they have lighter features (hair, skin, eye color) than I do, I see "me", but most people think they look more like their father (they have the "double" eyelid). However these days, as they are a little older now, some say my daughter resembles more of me - and that my son resembles more of dad. I say they look like a mixture of both of us, but really don't look like either of us entirely. But the funny thing is my daughter and my son have the same face - very, very similar - and THEY look like each other!!
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
Although others reckon that your kids are more like their father but you feel they are like you, specially your daughter. Is not it? Apparently, you see a 'younger you' in your daughter. Your son is like his father. Have your kids inherited any of your traits?
It is interesting to know they look like twins and one could easily guess that they are brother and sister.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
29 Oct 15
@much2say Yes, I was mentioning about personality traits. I can understand that your children have inherited traits from you and your husband.
I resemble my father rather than mother and one kid looks like me and second one is a mixer of both of us.
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@much2say (53942)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Oct 15
@dpk262006 Do you mean personality traits? Oh my, that's a whole long discussion!!! Certainly both have a little of this and a little of that of both of us - we can debate which side of the family certain traits have come from - ha ha. The baby photos of our kids are very similar - if it were not for the girl and boy clothing, sometimes we cannot tell which is which! And they are almost 5 years apart!! And how is it for you and your family??
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@cahaya1983 (11120)
• Malaysia
23 Oct 15
My eldest one looks like me, my second more like her father. At least that's what everyone else says. My husband thinks both of them look like him though. 
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
If a son looks like his mother, than it is said that he is lucky.
Your husband is not willing to accept that the eldest one looks like you?
Your husband is not willing to accept that the eldest one looks like you?1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
@cahaya1983 - When such occasion comes when he accepts? Do you threaten him to accept?
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@Marilynda1225 (80050)
• United States
23 Oct 15
My oldest daughter and I do look very much alike. My other children look more like a combination of their dad and me but they do have some very unique characteristics from my husbands side of the family
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
26 Oct 15
It is good to hear that your first daughter resembles you and others have mixed traits. What unique characteristics your kids have inherited from your husband's side?
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
28 Oct 15
My sis and I both resemble my dad a lot, but there's mom in us too. I can't exactly tell the direction of preponderance. Some people say we look like dad, some say like mom. Still under experimentation!
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
As far as I understand you (and may be your sister also) have characteristics of your mother as well as your mother and it is difficult to pin point whether you exactly look like your father or not even at this stage.
If a daughter looks like her father, she is considered lucky.
If a daughter looks like her father, she is considered lucky.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
28 Oct 15
@dpk262006 is that so? :D that's good!
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
So none of your sons resembles you?
Which traits of your younger son are similar to you?
Which traits of your younger son are similar to you?1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 15
@Tita417 - Great to hear that you and your younger son is soft corner towards anyone.
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@Tita417 (1228)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Oct 15
@dpk262006 being soft hearted to anyone
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@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
31 Oct 15
Everyone says my daughter looks like me, but her daughter, my granddaughter is the spitting image of me. From my eyes, to the noses and the lips.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Nov 15
It is great to hear that your grand daughter is the spitting image of you. I understand that it makes you feel proud, whenever you see her.
Has your daughter inherited some characteristics from you?
Has your daughter inherited some characteristics from you?1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
3 Nov 15
@Pattitude Your daughter should feel proud of your and the traits she inherited from you, I cannot understand what makes her hate this aspect, when told to her.
It is really a great thing in my view that your grand daughter looks like you, this should be taken positively by your daughter. Is not it?
It is really a great thing in my view that your grand daughter looks like you, this should be taken positively by your daughter. Is not it?1 person likes this
@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
2 Nov 15
@dpk262006 The older my daughter gets, the more I see a resemblance. I do see her father's side too, but I don't hold it against her!
But personality wise? She is just like me! And she hates it when I tell her so!
She also gets miffed when people tell her how much her daughter looks like me. So when she's a teenager, my daughter will be looking at her mother's face in her daughter!
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@srisahara (4508)
• Indonesia
24 Oct 15
Yes, of course both physically and character. I really recognize on what my daughters resemblance with me. In fact, I often laugh when she imitated my behavior which I often do in my time when I being child. I always try to recognize the character of my daughters so that I know how to treat them so that them are better. It's quite challenging and memorable.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
It is interesting to hear that your daughter looks like you and she has characteristics similar to you.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
26 Oct 15
@srisahara - Yes, you are very right that we feel proud when our positive traits are inherited by our children and the chain goes on like it.
@srisahara (4508)
• Indonesia
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 Yes, I think it is so interesting to recognize our character which we pass down to our children. It will teach us to be honest that we are not a perfect person.
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@cgalavia (1436)
• Philippines
24 Oct 15
When my first son was born,many people said that he is more like of his father,they really look alike even in their picture of still a baby,even the figure of his body similar to his father,they have the same butt,the same eyes, and the lines of their palm.
While when I born my second son most of the people said that this time,It has a more resemblance to me but as he gets older by months,other people said again that he is more like a look of his father.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
It means both sons have inherited features of their father and they resemble him more than you.
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@cgalavia (1436)
• Philippines
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 thats true,pity me. it's okay they are still my kids though they get a little features from me,When it comes to the attitude,still the eldest more of his father,while the youngest is more of me.
it's okay they are still my kids though they get a little features from me,When it comes to the attitude,still the eldest more of his father,while the youngest is more of me.1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
@cgalavia That should be a consolation for you that the second one has inherited characteristics from you.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
Do you mean to say that your youngest daughter looks like you, not the other way round that you look like her?
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@Beatburn (4287)
• Philippines
28 Oct 15
@dpk262006 hahaha now that you've mentioned it...
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@Freelanzer (10744)
• Canada
28 Oct 15
I never really paid attention to which of my parents I look more like but I know I have inherited my dad artistic nature which has been passed down to my children. As for my children, they are all boys so while the family tells me they look like me I think they show equal parts of both.For sure they got their dad's height thank goodness, they didn't take mine.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
28 Oct 15
It is interesting to hear that you inherited traits of your father and your children look like you (and probably inherited your traits). It is said that if sons looks like their mother, they are considered lucky. Hope all your wards are lucky.
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@Freelanzer (10744)
• Canada
28 Oct 15
@dpk262006 That is good to know. As far as luck goes, only in the sense that they are very hard wworking.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Oct 15
Both of my kids look like me and their father. I think it was the Iris/ German genes that make us look alike. The funniest thing is that my 15 year old grandson looks so much like me that I have to laugh. He is sooo adorable. Blonde/blue eyes and has the crazy sense of humor that I have.
On the other hand, I look so much like my deceased mom and always have but sometimes when looking in the mirror, I will say to the reflection, Mom, how did you get in there.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
It is great to hear that your grandson looks like you and this makes you laugh and I feel that this makes you feel proud also.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 yes it does. We all just laugh and I ask him if he knows it and sees it when he looks in the mirror and he says yes!!! I love it.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
Which are the traits they have inherited from you?
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
26 Oct 15
@kborman - Great to hear that their facial features are like you and this makes you feel proud.
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@kborman (84)
• Tyrone, Pennsylvania
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 A lot of the facial features are mine. I have a lot of people say that I must have good genes because they all take after me so much. And that is saying a lot when they each have different fathers.
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