Remember when growing up you'd say to your parents, "I'll never be like you!" Did you manage to be different

Question

And if you didn't, what trait of theirs did you pick up on that you wish you could change about yourself?

Answer 1

now that i am grown up i want to be exactly like my father.he was a gentleman & everybody loved him who knew him

Answer 2

I managed to be different. I am not crazy or a nagging wife. I am pretty normal I have to say. Plus, no one in my family has ever traveled ANYWHERE and I hated that. So I became a travel agent and since I have been married I have been to 9 different countries. Oh, only been married less than a year and a half too. So hah!

Answer 3

I hear my mother every time I start in on 'kids today'! And her handwriting comes out of my pen all the time.

I'd like to be more tolerant of the young; I'm working on it...I keep finding great young people who make me believe Maman and I are wrong!

Answer 4

Yes I do remember.My trait that I hate is moaning and saying in a minute.I wish I could change my moaning habits.

Answer 5

I changed my tune somewhere along the way. If I could be considered anything like my parents, I would honored. They are both amazing, and I love them dearly.

Answer 6

You find yourself saying those old saying, your parents used to say to you, that used to bug you....Like when I was your age.... I used to have to walk 100 miles to school, or some other annoying saying. Stop your lallygagging, what ever that means. Why couldnt she say.. keep up!! LOL!!

Answer 7

Thankfully, I managed to become quite different.

Answer 8

Never said it, and never was like my parents.

Answer 9

Im still growing.

Answer 10

i never said that to my parents.