What do you do that your parents DID?
 

Spawned from KatieSue's thread.

I love to bake and cook. My parents used to cook dinner and we ate as a family. When she went back to work it may not have been fancy but we ate as a family up until I graduated high school. My mom baked for my birthdays, for holidays. She still does to an extent. I can make the same thing she makes and hers is better.

I have company loyalty. I know in this age I shouldn't. My dad worked for the same company until they moved to SC when I was in high school. Then another company until he was forced into retirement.

Drink cognac, indulge my curiosity & wanderlust, hang with people younger than myself, read, listen to eclectic music, appreciate art, the abstract, and the absurd, eat European style, engage in philosophic conversations, live beyond my means, and have adventures.

I love this answer! I'm going to steal it and edit it for me. My parents probably should never have been parents but they sure did have joie de vivre.

Eat See's candy, indulge my curiosity & wanderlust, hang with people younger , also older, and even swankier than myself, read, listen to eclectic music, appreciate art, the abstract, and the absurd, eat European style, speak French fluently, engage in philosophic conversations, live beyond my means, and have adventures.

Ok since this one says parents I can go with the things my dad taught me well....my family has nothing to do with my gene pool and everything to do with their places in my heart...some are genetically related but most are not. Embracing life as it gets handed to you...why waste time whining about the negative, it's negative...find the positive and run with it. Eating comfort foods (that one probably should be on the shouldn't do list but it's not). Taking mega amounts of photographs of everything we experience from fun vacations to everyday life. Tell those I love that I love them verbally and often. It's not enought that they 'know it' they deserve to hear the words.

I love to travel and explore places like my Dad did (my Mom went along on trips as well but didn't have the lust for travle like my Dad did). From my Mom, I got the love of clothes, shopping and decorating. :rolleyes:

I honestly don't know of a thing my mom or dad did that I do, though I have personality traits from both. These threads have truly perplexed me.

I could say, I love to grill, like my father, though I didn't really know him until I was 18, and don't talk to nor see him often.

Could I attribute habits to important non-parental figures in my life? I know I have a few of those.

Yeah, while I am sure I have been shaped in many ways I can't think of many broadly recognizable habits that I could clearly say I do because of my parents.

Frankly, my life is so different than my parents that it would be hard to find much overlap.

You know, I guess I could come up with something... I tend to live outside of 'The Plan.' If I had my choice (and the fat wallet necessary for the fuel costs), I'd be road tripping every weekend.

But I think it's a personality thing, because they did it, but never with me.

Damn it.

I became fond of R&B music, classic b/w movies and musicals.