What physical traits did you inherit from your parents?

Philippines
December 28, 2007 5:26pm CST
Do you look more like you mom or your dad? People often tell me I have my father's physical features. That I am his female version.
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• United States
29 Dec 07
I have inherited a lot of traits from both of my parents. Its pretty crazy how even of a mixture I am. For one, I recieved my nose from my mother. Its roundness and softness are a direct reflection of hers. Secondly, I recieved my ears from my father. His are small, as are mine. Then there are my almoned shaped eyes. As far as my eyes go, I obviously inherited those from my father as well. My stern personality and refusal to back down in any given situation I recieved from my mother. My calmness and easy to get alongness, as well as my nice characteristic came from my father. I am a nice person, but as soon as I feel crossed, I will be vocal about it. My appetite I also got from my father. He is able to eat mass amounts of food without so much as picking up a single pound it seems like. I too can eat a lot of food without picking up weight. My frame also came from my father. He is not tall, however is frame is quite small. Small, yet musclar at the same time. I too have a skinny shaped frame like his. I cant complain however, for sometimes that is a good thing. Especially in the eyes of todays society. Some other characteristics that I got from my mother include the inability to say that "I am sorry" all the time. Even though in some situations I may be in the wrong- it still does not change the fact that I do not find it easy to say those words. My mother suffers from the same inability for she has been wrong with me on numerous occassions and has only said that she truely apologizes for something only once. But there is nothing I can do about that. I love my parents both, unconditionally. Although they might not have characteristics that I like, it is obvious that I have characteristics that they themselves dont like in themselves, but it reflected upon in me.
• Philippines
29 Dec 07
Thanks for the reply.
• United States
29 Dec 07
You are welcome. Your discussion questions I find interesting. That is why I reply to them a lot. Hope you dont mind.
• Pakistan
14 Jan 08
Yes it is natural we do look more like our mom, dad, grand mom or grand father. This called genealogy. My elder son is just like his maternal grand papa. I mean he is like the father of my wife. Tall, good car driver, very clever, chain smoker, and so many habits of his maternal grand pa are their in his personality. My other son is just like a carbon copy of my own personality. He is my follower. He is studying well and I hope that he will get his destination of his successful life. I see physical as well as mental trait in my second son. This is natural.
@balasri (26537)
• India
29 Dec 07
The eyes and brows of my mum and the hair from my dad.
@Angelwriter (1954)
• United States
3 Jan 08
Well, I have my father's physical features -his nose, teeth, eyebrows- but everyone who's seen us says I look just like my mother. And, I don't share any individual traits with her.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Dec 07
Although I was adopted I new my birth parents so I can say that physically I am more like my mother but closer to my father's height. WHo I am, my personality, my values.. I think I"m more like my dad - my adoptive dad that is.
@rosema (1145)
• Philippines
30 Dec 07
Some said, im a zerox copy of my mom, other said i look like my father. now i dont know who tell me the truth. maybe it just happened that my mother and father are also look a like. what do you think?
@magica (3707)
• Bulgaria
29 Dec 07
Mixed.My father`s features, my mother`s construction. I am nobody`s version, just a few common things...
• United States
28 Dec 07
Im not really sure which parent i look like. I have a lot of people telling me that i look like my dad.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
28 Dec 07
I look like my father. I have his ears. mouth and his eyes but a different color. I have my mother's feet and her body.
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
28 Dec 07
they say i look neither like my father or mother. i look like my grandfather on the father's side. although, i have the same skin color of my father, smiliarity stops there. my mother is mestiza. of course, she is beautiful. she is my mother!
@johndur (3052)
• Pasig, Philippines
29 Dec 07
i dont look like any of my father or my mother,because i get most of my features from my grandfather but on the bright side i got the manners of my father and the thriftiness of my mother.