Are you a chip off the old block??? - page 1 -

• Are you a chip off the old block??? by SLYinKC on 13 Feb, 2008 20:05
• Just sitting here thinking how much I am getting more and more like my Dad every day.  The one area I'm not like my Dad is with the hair.  My Dad is 69 and still has most all of his hair, although it is gray.
  
  But it seems more and more in my mannerisms and actions I have become my father.  I've started telling my sons to look into my head and they will see their future.
  
  So do you guys notice this same thing??? Even more as you get older, too??
• #1 by JDog on 13 Feb, 2008 20:28
• 1 trait I share with my old man is my procrastination. I have a bad habit of putting things off until later and later until low and behold 2 months have went by.
  
  
• #2 by schro on 13 Feb, 2008 20:51
• Let's see....I like beer, golf, sports, gambling, I suffer from sebhoerric dermititis, I'm a CPA....yeah, I'm my Dad.
  
  Seriously, although I love my Dad without question, he was not the most fatherly figure around. While I was growing up, he was more interested in "being with the boys" and attending to work related social events then doing things with the family. Granted it put food on the table, but there was clearly strain on the family (yeah, I know I may be sharing too much). As I tell people, I'm more of a product of my experience than of my upbringing. That being said, my parents are extremely fortunate the way myself & my two brothers turned out (all career men, solid individuals, no jail/law issues, finanically sound).
  
  I mention that because I use the experiences I had as a kid and make certain that I don't make the same mistakes with Nicole & Alex (my kids) that my Dad made with me. Granted he's a great guy, just wasn't a "Ward Cleaver" type.
• #3 by champ007 on 13 Feb, 2008 22:20
• I kinda have the Shro syndrome also. My Dad was always the provider, and constantly worked the 12 hour shifts at the mill. He was an engineer by trade, and we did not get alot of quality time due to his hours. He has always been a quiet "to himself" type of person until his heart bypass surgery a few years ago. It changed him. I have learned more about my father the last couple of years than I ever knew my during my childhood/teen years. I enjoy him as a person now, rather than just my father, its nice.
  Whats funny is he now shaves his head with a headblade, uses headslick and loves the bald guyz moisture gel. In a way he is sorta picking up on my traits which in a strange way gives me pride.. hard to explain.
• #4 by WannaBePadre on 13 Feb, 2008 22:31
• I walk like my dad, talk like my dad, crack similar jokes, complain about the same things, have GERD ... yeah, I'm pretty much a chip off the block. The only thing I seem to have inherited from my mom is high blood pressure and green eyes.
• #5 by PORKY on 13 Feb, 2008 23:06
• WELL... They say the harder you try to avoid something the more inevitable it will happen !  my life is the video for the song " Cats in the cradle"  right down to the end EXCEPT i dont have the kids with the flu , but everything ELSE matches perfect !  and ALL the things that went on while i was growing up "that will never happen to me , I'LL NEVER let that happen "  are coming to pass , DANG IT !!!!
• #6 by Mikekoz13 on 14 Feb, 2008 05:44
• I'm with SCHRO and CHAMP on this one...... my Dad is 72 years old and a great guy. I love him dearly but he wasn't Ward Cleaver either. he was the old fashioned type Dad..... provider and discipliner. I played baseball for many years and from the time I was 8 when I first started playing until I stopped when i was 18, he almost NEVER attended my games. I rode the bus or walked miles to get to the games. When i was in my mid teens and played serious ball and scouts were always watching our team, Dad would sneak up on his motorcycle after the game was started and watch from a distance. To this day he doesn't know that I saw him many times.
  
  He never gave praise or "I love yous" either..... it just wasn't his way. But he is a good man and i admire him. I've taken some of what he did as a father and have incorporated it into (but more gently) how i parent.
  
  I remember when i was about 20 years old I was complaining to my Aunt ( my Dad's older sister) about my Dad. She just smiled and said "You don't know". I had no idea what she meant. She told me that Dad was always bragging on me to others about how proud he was of me. I was shocked........ and later found out that it was true.......
  
                           i love that old guy.....
• #7 by SLYinKC on 14 Feb, 2008 06:13
• Quote from: Mikekoz13 on 14 Feb, 2008 05:44

  I'm with SCHRO and CHAMP on this one...... my Dad is 72 years old and a great guy. I love him dearly but he wasn't Ward Cleaver either. he was the old fashioned type Dad..... provider and discipliner. I

  
  
  
  Actually, my Dad is the same way.  Growing up, he was never one to go to my school activities.  Always to busy with his business or his own activities.  I used to really resent this.  I've tried really hard to not be the same way with my own kids.  But, it seems that as I've gotten older I learned that my parents are the way they are and probably aren't going to change.  I just have to learn to love and accept them for the way they are and hope my kids will cut me some slack when they are older, also.
  
  With all of this aside, I still find myself being more like my Dad, in many ways.
• #8 by herronm on 14 Feb, 2008 06:42
• I'm not much like my Dad, except for sharing a love for music.  We are very different.  He was a Marine, I was a wimp.  He had many many friends, I have a few very goods ones.
  
  I'm more like my Mom, except without hair.
  
  Max
• #9 by baldrev on 14 Feb, 2008 08:04
• I'm not really sure. My dad left when I was about twelve.. Before that, he worked and he slept. He and my mom did not get along so he slept if he was home to escape. Just when he was coming back into my life around twenty-eight, he died of a heart attack.
  
  The one thing I know I share is the head. He was bald even younger than I am. He was pretty thin in a picture I have of him at twenty-seven.
• #10 by PigPen on 14 Feb, 2008 08:05
• Yeah, I am a lot like my old man. Except for a few things, hair.....most of you have seen the pic of he and I. He looks like a hippie. But ya gotta love his bib overalls. I'm more patient with my kids than he was with me. We do have similar tempers and outlooks on life though. Love him to death, even if he is a pain in the @$$ sometimes. He says I have made some better decisions too.
• #11 by Robmeister on 14 Feb, 2008 08:47
• Quote from: schro on 13 Feb, 2008 20:51

  
  ...my parents are extremely fortunate the way myself & my two brothers turned out (all career men, solid individuals, no jail/law issues, finanically sound).
  
  

  
  Like I said, they didn't raise any dummies.
  
  Now to figure out what to do with yer "finanicals" 
• #12 by PBurke on 14 Feb, 2008 10:48
• sometimes we are alike, sometimes not. but pretty much a chip here.
• #13 by Marz on 14 Feb, 2008 11:10
• I am pretty split down the middle between my mom and dad.
  
  Am I like my dad? Well in some ways and the older I get the more they become appearant. Where he has always been an influance on me I have followed in his footsteps on the things I admire him for and blazed my own trail where we dont see eye to eye. Being able to learn from his accomplishments and mistakes has made me who I am today.
  
  So am I a chip off the old block? When I am rebuilding an engine or making people laugh, yes. When it comes to my patient, calm demeanor or playing music, no.
• #14 by Spleener on 14 Feb, 2008 12:13
• I think I ended up with my dad's work ethic...not sure what else. He was a product of the Depression, so he wasn't really terribly affectionate. I try to go a little bit the opposite way with my kids.
  
  When I look at my son (he's 28), I'm amazed at all the traits he seems to have gotten from me. I'd call him Mini-Me, except that he's five inches taller than I am. We share an inability to make small talk and a love of Mel Brooks, among other things.