Nature or nurture
By sharone74
@sharone74 (4837)
United States
December 27, 2006 10:46am CST
My 17 year old daughter lives with my mother in Las Vegas, in the same house I grew up in, she even has the same phone number that I had as a kid. Here's the question: My daughter and I have the same favorite color, the same favorite phrases, we think alike, we like the exact same flavor of favorite candy (skittles origional fruit), we have the same GPA 3.17 she in high school mine is in college, and we even have the same tastes in perfume and the same perspective on my mother as the "grinch who stole happiness". She has lived with my mom for 15 years and thus this "sameness" begs the question. Are all of these similarities from Nature (genetics) or Nurture (homelife)?
1 response
@mamabulldog60 (351)
• United States
27 Dec 06
You both have the same feeling for your mother who not only raised you but is now raising your daughter, if I were your mother I'd be a little grumpy also. Nice that you can chummy with the child you should be raising, just my opinion
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
27 Dec 06
My mother had me locked up in juvie at age 16 as a runaway and would not sign the papers to let me out until I signed over joint custody with physical custody of my child to her. She had since never relinquished custody of my child though she has been asked several times since I got my life together so she has no room to be grumpy and you are making asumptions on facts not in evidence. She stole my child because she cannot have anymore after me and now she is trying to become a foster parent because my child is almost grown and she likes parenting children. She is a negative minded grouch and has been my entire life. It has absolutely nothing to do with who should or should not be raising my child. Whom I would happily take if she would give her up!
