Do your Children Imitate you ?

My oldest has been deemed the "Mother Hen" to her three younger siblings. And, yes, much of it she gets from me and my husband. Correcting, assisting, setting rules...it is quite comical at times. I look at her and am reminded that I need to relax about things more or do something differently, if that's the way she is seeing me. Maybe it's nature's way of making sure there is a "next in line commander" for the others if anything should happen to the parents. To make sure the other kids are being taught and raised the way we would, so, in our case, my oldest took on that job. Sometimes I have to remind her that I am the mom, and I've been practicing the part for several years. She just hasn't learned to give the others a little room for mistakes, yet, like I have learned to...LOL!

My granddaughter is four.....she has to have everything just like me. I told her one day that I had bad knees and she told everyone that day that her and I had bad knees. If I cut my food a certain way she has to have it the same way.....I am amazed. My son was the one that pointed it out to me one day....he says....she wants to be just like you. I am very flattered that she does.

hi renukachohan, dear friend, i am having fourteen month oldie and you wont believe, she imitates us, in a gap of a second . my father in law is having a habbit of giving things bythrowing, so when ever we ask hre that how he gives things, she will throw something on your face . then , when you ask how mom massages you before taking you to bath, she will tell you by sitting and massaging her legs, then when she is asked how mom gives her a bath, she shows by showing the actions of soap and water and all. she imitates the actions and tries to copy the way a person speaks very fast.

Just last week my daughter was sitting next to me on the couch when my brother was telling me a story about something. He was using hand gestures and everything. My daughter got up and was standing in front of him mimicking him. It was cute.

my daughter copies me in everything. the colors she prefers, her dresses, her liking for food, her style etc. but the funniest thing is that my and my sister's style of talking is so similar that even our mother is not sure whether she is talking to me or her. So it is not only children but siblings also copy each other.

Hello, I think it is amazing how my son imitates me, he will point his finger not at me ,but at any object that is in the room and shake it up and down, and speak in mumbles as if he is correcting the object like I do him, now keep in mind he is only 2 yrs old.

Children do mimick their elders because they do have a sense of identity until later in childhood, and so while the are young they imitate what they see and hear until they find their way in this big scary world.