Nature or Nurture?

[gabrielladusult]

This morning was an exhausting one rounding the kids together for St. Thomas's soccer game (and making sure I had enough bottles/toys etc. to get through the event). So this afternoon, while ConTessa was napping, I turned on PBS Kids for the older two and reclined on the family room couch. Just as I'm drifting off, I feel myself being covered by

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[tdu000]

Not all little girls - mine would never have done anything like that, even at five (certainly not now she's twelve). It's about that age she asked me whether I was training her to be a servant, so maybe it says something about our respective attitudes to motherhood rather than something innate to little girls. That's a nice Mothers' Day (or pre-Mothers' Day) moment. I hope she keeps it up for the day itself.

[gabrielladusult]

I really think that some kids are born with certain personalities and Angela is a helper. She gets frustrated and mad at me if I get my own water when I feed the baby or I start making dinner without her to help. I once reduced her to tears just by saying, "You're not helping."

[rosathome]

I think I'd have instinctively seen my mother falling asleep as an opportunity to go and do something forbidden. Steal biscuits out of the cupboard, perhaps. Or play in the mud. Or hit my brother. That kind of fun thing. Usually something that would be immediately obvious when she woke up, too. The sneakiness came a bit later! You clearly have a very lovely child who would do none of those things. :)

[gabrielladusult]

Oh, she has her sneaky side. Like when she took a baggie of marshmallows into her room to eat them while I was busy feeding the baby. I caught her, of course, and she didn't get dessert that night. Sometimes it's hard to keep a striaght face when punishing her, though.

Both!

[amamama]

Nature and nurture. I remember clearly being tucked in as a kid while beeing to much asleep to acknowledge the parent who did so. Both my kids cover me with blankets when I nap, my son being the more cuddly one, so he often joins me - lying on top. *grins*

[lollapulizer]

I think it's a bit of both. My sister and I experienced the pretty much the same treatment from our parents, yet our personalities are so different that I'm the one who cares for my mother when she's sick and my dad isn't around, while my sister tends to be either oblivious or just goes about her own business.

What a sweetie you are raising...

[grandma_kate]

My experience is that most little girls are more nurturing than most little boys. Someone has to model gender appropriate behavior so you must be doing a fine job.