We all know that our kids look like us. Yesterday, someone
was telling me that they had a relative with adopted kids who looked more and
more like their parents as they grew older. That was interesting to me, but
upon further reflection, it likely shouldn’t.
Beyond our physical family traits, we also develop other
unique identifiers together. Any one of them is unremarkable on its own (unless you are the Von
Trapp’s, say) but together they make your family who it is. It could be
interests, it could be personality. It could be gestures, jokes or expressions.
It may be mannerisms or points of view. Whatever it is, you can be a family in
many more ways than just genetics. Its one of the things we enjoy about being
foster parents. We can make room in our family for someone else. They add to
us, as we add to them.
Do you have any examples of how your family looks unique
beyond the uni-brow or Roman nose?
4 comments:
Well, we speak Eastonese!
Ma&Pa E.
*My two boys walk in the exact same manner as my husband. People remark about it all the time.
I guess we share mannerisms and senses of humor. :-)
Hi Ron .. yes I look like my mother - and my brothers have some traits like my father .. and one of them said something years ago - in the same manner and tone and verbage my father would have used .. it was fairly uncanny!
Cheers - we're all chips of the old blocks ... HIlary
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