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I was reading a thread on another website and someone posted this question and I thought I might see how people on this site responded to a similar question.
My father is still alive (Happy Father's day DAD!) and is 85, and I am 52. As I get older I see lots of similarities but also lots of differences between us. So the question is how are you like your father and how are you NOT like your father?
For me--I look like him, although he has more hair than me! Damn it I think our approach to life is very different as he was a laborer for the railroad and I have several advanced degrees. So our lives have been very different, yet some traits have shone through all of that. I find that fascinating that no matter the circumstances some things just persevere.
Personality wise we are very similar, he and I share the same sense of humor and wit. He is an inquisitive guy, and though he dropped out of high school to work, he then went back and got his GED, and was always supportive of my educational endeavors. Like him I am very supportive of my daughter and her educational asperations, and we (my father and I) see education as the key to a successful future. I often wonder how he would have done given the opportunity to go to college?
In my child I see 'me' and 'him' as well. Mainly in wit, humor and approach to life. She is just as inquisitive as her grandfather, and is an ace student. She wrote her grandfather a thank you note last year after finishing her spanish class (he is Spanish) and he loved it. I am quite sure when we see him here in a month he will try and talk to her in spanish (he gave up trying that with me as I can only speak a few words). All of us are perfectionist wannabe's--in the sense we strive for that, but all three of us also recognize it will never be perfect and to enjoy the imperfections along the way.
I am different from my father in that I am much more involved in my daughters life then he was in mine. Part of that is the fact that I am the middle child of several children so there were lots of kids to split your attention among. Whereas I have one child, and can afford both financially and time wise the time with her.
He was a laborer who never had money and money/food was always tight growing up, and money isn't an issue in my life.
He only recently has been able to express how he feels about me (something about getting older I think!), whereas I am much more freely able to let my daughter know I love her.
I think certain traits pass through the generations and was just curious in your families what they might be. So Dad, again happy father's day and thanks for all you did for us kids!
So how are you similar/dissimilar to your father, and if you have children, do you see those traits in them as well?
My father is still alive (Happy Father's day DAD!) and is 85, and I am 52. As I get older I see lots of similarities but also lots of differences between us. So the question is how are you like your father and how are you NOT like your father?
For me--I look like him, although he has more hair than me! Damn it I think our approach to life is very different as he was a laborer for the railroad and I have several advanced degrees. So our lives have been very different, yet some traits have shone through all of that. I find that fascinating that no matter the circumstances some things just persevere.
Personality wise we are very similar, he and I share the same sense of humor and wit. He is an inquisitive guy, and though he dropped out of high school to work, he then went back and got his GED, and was always supportive of my educational endeavors. Like him I am very supportive of my daughter and her educational asperations, and we (my father and I) see education as the key to a successful future. I often wonder how he would have done given the opportunity to go to college?
In my child I see 'me' and 'him' as well. Mainly in wit, humor and approach to life. She is just as inquisitive as her grandfather, and is an ace student. She wrote her grandfather a thank you note last year after finishing her spanish class (he is Spanish) and he loved it. I am quite sure when we see him here in a month he will try and talk to her in spanish (he gave up trying that with me as I can only speak a few words). All of us are perfectionist wannabe's--in the sense we strive for that, but all three of us also recognize it will never be perfect and to enjoy the imperfections along the way.
I am different from my father in that I am much more involved in my daughters life then he was in mine. Part of that is the fact that I am the middle child of several children so there were lots of kids to split your attention among. Whereas I have one child, and can afford both financially and time wise the time with her.
He was a laborer who never had money and money/food was always tight growing up, and money isn't an issue in my life.
He only recently has been able to express how he feels about me (something about getting older I think!), whereas I am much more freely able to let my daughter know I love her.
I think certain traits pass through the generations and was just curious in your families what they might be. So Dad, again happy father's day and thanks for all you did for us kids!
So how are you similar/dissimilar to your father, and if you have children, do you see those traits in them as well?