What do you wish you'd inherited from your mother?

Everything. I loved her so much and miss her everyday

Nothing....

The inheritance from my mother for who the years were kind and never seemed to age, is when asked to give my age ' for varying factors' is 'are you really ? you don't look it'.
How am I supposed to 'look it '?.

Sadly like others, I don’t want to be anything like my Mum.... critical of everyone, controlling, opinionated, dictatorial, knows everything, is always right.... and what’s even more tragic tho, is that she truly believes that all she ever doesn’t is want to help others, but she never knows where helping ends and interfering and upsetting others kicks in.

Her bravery, her strength and her vitality. Unfortunately she was ill in her late 50s and died at 65. I’ve overtaken that age now and am missing a role model. I still think of her every day. Her motto was “if you’ve got your health you are able to work, and you are a millionaire”.

Nothing. I loved my Mam sadly she has now died but I know now that I have my own adult daughter who has left home she said somethings to me that were hurtful and I would never say to my daughter, I do everything opposite to my Mam with my daughter and we have a great bond.

Sadly, I inherited her BRCA2 gene. I wish I could remember her but I can't. I was 8 when she died at just 42. Fortunately for me, treatment has moved on so I'm still just about here. Anyway, only the good die young so I should be around for a very long time

People have said she had a lovely personality. And she is lovely to look at in photographs. Just wish I could remember her voice.

Her grey eyes - I got my Dad's brown eye colour instead!

Her pastry making. She used to make pies and tarts where the pastry used to melt in your mouth. My son wishes I had the ability! But her victoria sponge always used to go flat!

Her ability to make friends. When she went shopping it would take about 2 hours. She stopped to chat with everyone she met. My dad was a loner and sadly I inherited this trait from him. I got a lot of good things from him too, especially his love of reading.

I wish I inherited her care free nature

Nothing but it is reassuring to see that I am not the only one who feels this way!

Nothing.

Nothing. My mother was a 'Jekyll and Hyde. In later life we would hear tales of this funny, happy lady that we didn't know.

My memories are of her constantly cleaning. You good never do anything right for her , constantly criticising. You got a smack if you fell over and hurt yourself. Never a cuddle.

She would never have the neighbours in the house, she prided herself on 'keeping herself to herself.'. I do have her to thank for the fact that I am able to cook, clean , keep house etc.

Fortunately, I have inherited lots of wonderful things from my dad.

I wrote her life story with her but now wish I had even more information. I also wish I could sew, she made all our clothes and household items with ease. I suppose it's motivation rather than ability!

My mother had a very unfortunate life and, at 87, owns nothing and has dementia. She was not able to develop any talents and left her one room village school at the age of 14.

However, given her poor start in life, my mother has always been an avid reader and had a very high degree of written accuracy. I suspect that with a better start she might have done well in life.

I became an English teacher and I think I might have inherited the potential to do well in this from mum.

Nothing at all from my mother. Loads tho from my lovely Father - he was kind, loving and very wise. Everyone adored him.

My Mum was a compulsive worrier, and excessively shy and very anti-social. She was also obsessive about housework, and everything had to be done to routine. She was a good mother. We were always well-fed and clothed, on a tight budget, but I don't remember her ever being affectionate to any of us.

I think that living through the war, being bombed-out with two very small children, and having a husband who came back from the war uninjured physically but not the happy person who had gone away, probably changed her. My Aunt told me that they were both very happy people before the war. It's sad that I never saw that side of them.

So, although there's nothing that I would want to inherit from her, I wish that she hadn't been changed by circumstances before I had the chance to get to know how she used to be.

Her courage and endurance.

Everything, my lovely Mum was loved by everyone. She was beautiful inside and it shone out of her face. She was kind, compassionate, fiercely loyal, generous, loving, irreverent, extremely funny and was literally adored by everyone who knew her. Her funeral was attended by hundreds (literally) of people, she has left a massive hole in our lives and we all miss her dreadfully ?

Her height, her strong sense of duty and her party going spirit. Wonderful.

Her patience and forgiveness i really dont know why she didnt put me up for adoption when i look back haha

There’s too much to mention, but if I could pick 2 attributes one would be her cooking skills, she could magic anything up from the cupboard and what a wonderful baker. Second would be her stamina, she was able to just keep going. ?

My mum was perfect with a lovely nature in her short life.
The only thing I wish I hadn’t inherited was her rheumatoid arthritis!!!!!!

Her legs!!! Mine are OK but hers were soooo long & slim. She was about 5'11'' & most of it was leg. She also had big boobs & was very attractive.
Strangely she always said she wished she had my lovely slim ankles & glossy hair- just goes to show we are never happy!
I took after Dad!