I hope not

1/4/2006 10:30:42 AM

only if your parents are shitty. If you have good, successful parents, we never become them.

1/4/2006 10:33:38 AM

I hope not

1/4/2006 10:34:12 AM

try as they might a good portion of people are very similar to their parents personality wise (or so it seems).

1/4/2006 10:45:18 AM

i already have

most of the awesome, but unfortunately, more of the crappy than i'd have liked.

1/4/2006 10:46:37 AM

God i hope so in some respects. Grandparents as well. Those are/were some hard working, good hearted people.

/granddaddy ran shine back in the day

1/4/2006 11:02:09 AM

I'm already way too much like my father that it scares me. I could do worse.

1/7/2006 12:20:14 PM

definitely nature vs. nurture at work in my house. my dad adopted me when i was 3, but i don't show the slightest resemblence to him personality wise. its all on my mom's side

1/7/2006 12:36:00 PM

Not a chance. My parents are happy, popular and perfect saints.

1/7/2006 12:45:14 PM

I'm not going to grow up and be a whore like my mom. I wouldn't so much mind being like my dad, as long as I don't get sick like he did.

1/7/2006 1:35:16 PM

I know I'll pretty much grow up to be like my dad, I hope I'm not like my mom though

1/7/2006 1:42:17 PM

trying very hard to prevent it

1/7/2006 1:54:43 PM

Fighting it everyday.. gah! Actually, in some ways im completely different than my parents.. many ways actually.

But I'm finding more similarities than I'd care to.

1/7/2006 2:33:19 PM

I could only hope to become as hardworking, honorable, selfless and successful as my father; loving, nuturing and caring as my mother.


So while I may not be fated to be like them, I can only hope I will turn out like them.

(Except for my Pop's bum knee, He can have that shit)

1/7/2006 2:44:33 PM

i hope i'm slated to be half the person that each of them is.

1/7/2006 2:51:22 PM

my mom. cool
my dad. may have a little problem.

1/7/2006 3:19:30 PM

1/7/2006 4:17:30 PM

i hope so

bc that would mean $$$$$$$$

1/7/2006 4:22:47 PM

^^"unless that tree's on a hill--then them suckas can roll, bra." --marlon wayans

1/7/2006 4:27:31 PM

spitting image of my dad. fine with me.

1/7/2006 5:49:52 PM

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"spitting image of my dad. fine with me. "

same

1/7/2006 6:07:05 PM

i might look like my mom.... but i am the exact opposite of both parents... so i don't think i'll grow up to be like them...

1/7/2006 7:15:54 PM

I don't know about parents, but I def. take my anti-grandma pills everyday, so i don't get frail and offer people orange juice.

1/7/2006 8:39:09 PM

I'm very similar to my mom. If I become even more like her, I'd be perfectly happy. Except I don't want to be blind. But I'd like to respond to difficult situations in the same patient, gracious manner that she does. So far I haven't reached that state.

1/7/2006 9:12:27 PM

to be anything like my dad I'd have to start smoking more pot and take up photography. so it doesn't look like it's gona happen.

1/7/2006 9:39:26 PM

my parents are pretty awesome

1/7/2006 9:57:46 PM

i actually think that you are much more likely to become like your grandparents.

I believe that its a cyclical thing where the children vow to never be like their parents, who did the same thing with their parents.

Even if you had "good" parents, if have often seen in research that i have done (dont laugh, I'm serious) that people tend to have many of the personality traits and ideologies that thier grandparents have.....and most people dont even know it.

and i dont mean that you are the same now as your 75 year old grandfather is now, but the older you get, you will show many more characteristics of them than you probably will ever realize. Most times even moreso than your biological parents.

1/8/2006 12:48:08 AM

My dad's a gynocologist, so the majority of his day is spent looking at poonnani.

I have yet to even see one poonnani. And, given my current state of being, it is unlikely I will ever see poonani.

Therefore, I am forced to conclude that I have not grown up to be my father (in that respect, anyway).

1/8/2006 2:42:57 AM

^do you not have a face or something? or are you a priest?




anyway, on a couple of occasions lately i have caught myself using my dad's favorite jokes which i have hated since i was a child, i can't believe i actually repeated them....

1/8/2006 3:42:04 AM

my mom is completely awesome and i would be amazed if i becamer even a tenth of the person she is. everything good about me i attribute to her


my father however

1/8/2006 12:04:49 PM

Well, I haven't had any children out of wedlock, I have a bachelor's degree, I don't foresee myself morphing from moderate liberal to hardcore, crazy-ass conservative, I'm not addicted to any drugs, and I can hold down a steady job. So, no, I'm pretty different from my parents. But that's not necessarily good.

1/8/2006 12:21:10 PM

Considering that my parents are both freaking loony I hope to god I never become them.

1/8/2006 12:31:40 PM

^Oh whoops that was me.

1/8/2006 6:34:07 PM

^x4

same here, my mom is fantastic (when she remembers things) but dad... eeeh.

1/8/2006 7:46:19 PM

Quote :

"i actually think that you are much more likely to become like your grandparents. I believe that its a cyclical thing where the children vow to never be like their parents, who did the same thing with their parents. Even if you had "good" parents, if have often seen in research that i have done (dont laugh, I'm serious) that people tend to have many of the personality traits and ideologies that thier grandparents have.....and most people dont even know it. and i dont mean that you are the same now as your 75 year old grandfather is now, but the older you get, you will show many more characteristics of them than you probably will ever realize. Most times even moreso than your biological parents."

i buy that. i've definitely got some of my dad's personality traits, but ideologically, i think i'm a lot like my gramps.

1/8/2006 9:48:57 PM

I think we use our parents' actions to rationalize our actions sometimes, especially when it comes to short-comings.

I don't think living now as compared to how my baby boomer parents lived at my age can hardly draw comparison... well, I guess it can in a very general sense, though.

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1/8/2006 9:54:39 PM

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"I have yet to even see one poonnani. "

how in the hell?


I'm a lot different from both of my parents. Nothing wrong with them, but I'm not at all like them in a lot of ways.

My mom--very nice...too nice, sometimes. Quite risk averse. Not very confrontational. Does look at things from different angles--puts herself in others shoes, and is capable of seeing grey areas (I got this from her), but does not get very well informed of some things she makes decisions about...really doesn't get all that immersed in much of anything in terms of hobbies or interests. I wouldn't describe her as a boring person, but she does lead kind of a boring life, in my opinion.

My dad--Hard driving, type-A personality, highschool class president, very sociable/outgoing businessman (that part I got from him, except that I'm much less high strung). Very confrontational--not really an asshole (anymore), but does not mind butting heads. He's more quick tempered than I am (I'm much more emotionally level). Big picture oriented--pragmatist (I'm also this way). However, sees everything very much in black and white terms--not good at seeing grey areas or looking at things from the other side. Not risk averse like my mom is, but he's more into golf than any of the high-octane hobbies I'm drawn to (although he does ride a motorcycle...although it's a Gold Wing).


and neither of my parents have ever been drunk or done any drugs or anything, and they didn't have sex until they were married (although i'm sure Mom has since they divorced).





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1/8/2006 9:55:22 PM

Unfortunately, I am a lot like both my parents...

...and I come from a most dysfunctional (though very normal) family.

1/8/2006 9:59:56 PM