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ChristopherPaul · #11 (**permalink**) 06-25-2008, 12:21 PM

I spastically shake my leg which drives my wife crazy. None of my parents do this (it drove them nuts as well), but they say my uncle was notorious for it.

I notice a lot of oddities that my kids seem to pick up. Some are character traits that they learn from observation (good and bad) and others are the unexplainable things that have been mentioned in this thread.

For instance, I am quite stoic and "hard to read" as my wife would say whereas my wife is extremely extroverted, photogenic, and loud. We are quite the opposites in these areas. Some of my kids, my oldest daughter especially, are more like me in that they look serious more often than not and are quieter, but then there are some who show traits like mom - ESPECIALLY my four year old who is a splitting image of her mother. She has one volume and no such thing as an "inside voice." Her countenance is always a clear indicator of her state of mind.