I have heard at least a few hundred times – “You daughter looks just like you”. Ironically, not as many, but several times I have also heard – “Your daughter looks just like your husband!” My husband and I don’t really look alike and yet I fail to understand how my daughter can look “exactly” like both of us!
And it doesn’t stop there… people have found my daughter to have resemblance to her grandmother, her other grandmother, her uncle… pretty much everyone in the immediate family circle. However, the best remark I have heard so far - her forehead is like her father’s forehead, she has her mother’s eyes, and her chin is like her grandmother!
Why do people have this incessant urge to establish a child’s resemblance to one of the family members? Although, I must confess, I am equally crazy in that department. At times, I have been actually frustrated for not being able to figure out whether a kid looks more like his mother or father! As my husband argues, it doesn’t really matter who the child looks like and he will probably end up looking very different as an adult.
Maybe its just one of our quirks… or maybe, when a new baby is born, we try to find familiar traits to connect with his unfamiliar world!
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Many times I have seen this take a more political route..
ReplyDeleteSuch as: People who know us better always say my daughter looks more like my wife as they know where the next meal is coming from when they are at our place ;)
But sincerely when I look at a baby, I personally have no cliue..