A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK

Agnes Chan

 

 

 

            Even though I tried very hard as a modern parent not to mold my children’s personality, they turned out to be very much like my husband and me.   Not only that, they also followed the gender difference—my daughter is more like me and my son is more like my husband.

 

            My husband is a very intense person who focuses on whatever he is doing at hand.  As a result, he doesn’t notice his surroundings very well.  He is hopeless when it comes to looking for anything in the kitchen or in the cabinets.   My son takes after his dad and is just as hopeless.  In our family, we never send these two guys to look for a pair of scissors, nor a can of coke.

 

            My daughter, on the other hand, took after me.  She is very aware of her environments, especially the emotions of people, so she is very good at communicating with people in the right way and at the right moment.  However, she is also easily distracted by her surroundings.

 

            In any case, it is great joy of see some of myself and some of my husband in our children.  This is probably the highest reward of parenting.