Do you think kids take on our attitudes?

I believe what you said is right. I don't have my own family right now but it is what I have observed. Kids tend to do what their parents are doing. But I can say that there are things that are just inherent to us. I have a mannerism similar to my father. I grew up not really close to him but we share some mannerisms. It's really pleasing to see kids do what you're are doing. I just don't know why but it is one of the pleasures of being a parent. Maybe God also want us to experience the same feeling every time He sees us doing the things similar to His knowing that we are created in His image.

I do think they take on our attitudes. My son acts just like me. When he gets mad at his daddy he lets him know he is mad at him by the look on his face and the way he acts. My husband always says he acts just like me. Even my mom and mother in law say he acts like me. He says sweet things like please, thank you, and yes ma'am too because I've taught him to say those things because I think it sounds so nice.

With a little deviation, kids don't have to be with their parents to inherit their traits. I'm a single mother now. My husband was hardly with us. Yet my sons have inherited some of his traits. Fortunately the casual ones. I guess it runs in ones genes.

Yes, My boys are very independant and they have picked up my bad habits. lol. They have also picked up my good habits. like not smoking or drinking. I think my oldest son is most like me. He is 25 and so we clash alot because of our stuboorness. I Know its my fault hes the way he is but I love him lol

Hello, pehpot. Children are really fun. They are like learning machines. They will copy the attitudes from those who they love. The parents, for a child, are like the heroes. They will copy their heroes in every small detail. Perhaps things that you would never imagine that he'd copy, the little fella is doing too. Sometimes they copy people they don't know for actions they think it is cool. Sometimes they will copy a gesture from somebody if that somebody received a good thing in exchange for doing that. For example: if they see somebody complimenting a person and getting hugged back, the child will do it when he wants to be hugged. They tend to think that the action is going to have the same effect in whoever it is... And it probably will. Children are smart. They will grow following their parents, unless if they get disappointed with them. I mean, if their parents beat them or do something really bad, they will not copy them anymore. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

Yup, kids do really take after the attitudes from parents.. JUst like me, i have my parents as well as my mother's attitude.. haha =D BUt it's not a good one.. hehe =D I have a temper like my father, and that when i was young, i dun show much respect to them, whenever they talk to me, i will be shouting back at them.. lol =D JUst like what my father did when he talk to his sisters.. hehe =D As for learning form my mom, i got her impatience, like if she's talking to me, and i feel i'm being disturbed, i will just show an irritated face to her or talk to her in an irritated tone.. lol =D BUt now as i grow up, i no longer do all that to them ^_^

I think my daughter has some of my attitude sometimes. She gets frustrated and it shows alot of time just like me.

yes they do. my children started to do chores in the house around two to three years old. they are imitating what i do so i can say that children takes on our attitudes. but once they started going out like going to school they imitate attitudes and traits on what they see on their environment. so parents should have patience on correcting them once they start going to school. i was shocked when i first heard my first born say bad words....

Hi pehpot, Yes our children always take on our attitudes, that's why it is important to set good examples. When they get in their teens, children will often revolt against authority but if we handle it right they will do fine. It looks like you have been doing well so far and you have every right to be proud of your children. Blessings.

i do think they mock what u do. i get all the blame lol when my grandchildren are being bad. my sons say they are acting like me.

Remember kids are always watching parents and they do as you do not as you say. So the answerto your questions are yes.

I do think that the children have a way of taking on our attitudes. MY five year old son is very much like me in some ways. He looks a lot like my husband but he seems to have a lot of my characteristics. He seems to have the same sense of humor as mine. I have always been a little silly and I still am. I like to repeat things and laugh and I find him doing the same thing. I can find it all annoying sometimes but then I realize how I might be annoying the same people! My husband tell me, yeah he got that from you. My son can also be a little impatient. I feel that he might have taken that from me as well. All the way around my son seems pretty well adjusted and intelligent. I really liked books and learning when I was little. He seems to be the same way.

Hey there pehpot I do find that my kids pick up on how I say things and do things but I know that my eldest picks up atitude from school. Soemtime he will talk with this accent from anohter region in England with attitude and know exactly where or rather who he got it from. It infuriates me and I hope he will stop doing it soon!!

Most definitely! Kids in general are like sponges. They take in so much and my daughter did the same thing. When my daughter was 4yrs old someone ask her if she lied. And she said one lie leads to another. She picked that up from my mom because my mother use to say that all the time to her kids. So it's great to see all the good manners that they pick up

You are absolutely correct on this.It is for nothing they have said Like father like son.It can be of any combination.Like father like daughter,, like mother like son ,like mother like daughter any thing.In my case it is the daughter.She resembles her mother a lot.But her taste in food ,music ,dress ,her moods her character and every thing is mine.It is amazing how even the minute details from us are transferred to them by the genes.

YOu are right, basically for kids the first persons are parents and they are called as heros for them initially so they always tends to grasp up how we are and even they follow the same. my little is 7 months old now, but surprise she used to have an habit holding ears what i have too.

Yes I do believe our kids take on our attitudes. My daughter is almost six months oldf and I am already seeing my behaviors appearing in her. I have a bad temper and through a lot of temper tantrums in my teen years. Thankfully since being a parent my episodes have ceased; but my attitudes have rubbed off to her. She is fiesty and has a bad temper. But on the other side she loves to laugh. So do I. She's nosy and loves to learn new things. So do I. I do believe my attitudes and behaviors are reflected through our children.

I do agree, I am a father of 3 and 1/2 girl child. I spare a good time with her and found that she takes all my habit of manners. She understands my saying and remains cool and calm. This dosent seems that she took all my habit but is a mixture of my and my wife. At times she speaks too much like my wife but she also understands logics as I do and do remember them.

I do not have my own kids yet but base on my observation with other children, I believe that parents attitude has a great effect on their kids. Kids love to imitates what other people do or say. Aside from that, kids inherit their attitudes also on their own parents which can be manifested as they grow up.

I don't think so,every individual has his unique attitude the problem is some trait are common in everyone but we tend to think it's unique in us.(ex- anger,tension,frustration)