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

Baking, and cooking, she made the most amazing cakes and wonderful roast potatoes and my children loved her to bits.

I wish I hadn't inherited her legs ?

Her ability to accept her lot in life without complaint!

Her health and energy, sadly I have not been as blessed !

Her ability to drink huge quantities of alcohol and stay upright!

Her positivity and her zest for life and making the very best of what was thrown her way. Her ability to see the absolute best in everyone, including me. Her cheerfulness. Her love for her family. Thirty years on I still miss her every day. She was as perfect as a human being could be. I’m so sorry for all of you that didn’t had the relationship we had.

her intelligence and her kindness
lost her nearly 20 years ago and miss her so much

Her bravery.

I inherited her cooking skills....and her ability to work hard and usually do the job of two people.she taught me to be a work horse and I’ve remained one, much to my chagrin!! She was extraordinarily healthy all her life until 92 and then got ill and died within 2 weeks, I wish I inherited her good health.

Nothing. My mother is and always has been a miserable person, a 'glass half empty' outlook on life on just about everything.

I am the opposite.

Her hair it was lovely and thick.

Her ability to do cryptic crosswords! I think I have a fairly good brain on me, but cryptic crosswords just flummox me. Cannot fathom them AT ALL!

I wish I had her grace, wisdom and fortitude. Everyone thought she was wonderful but it would never have occurred to her. She is so greatly missed.

Her grace, wisdom and fortitude. Everyone thought so highly of her but it never occurred to her what an amazing person she was.
She is so greatly missed.

I too have spent most of my life trying not to be like her. I vowed I would never treat my children like she treated us. But she did have lovely handwriting.

I loved my Mum and she loved me. She had her faults as does everyone but nearly everything I know she taught me and I built upon.
She died four years ago a couple of months before she was 98. I would have liked to inherit her longevity which would give me another 23 years but with the diagnosis that is due to be confirmed it's not likely.

My Mum had no special skills or artistic flare, she didn't read, sew, knit or have much interest in literature. She wasn't academic or even particularly supportive of education.
She was a good cook but didn't like it and soon gave up when she didn't have to bother.
Her main interests were television, radio and maybe the occasional woman's magazine to flick through in a desultory way.

So in all these senses I am her total opposite. I have inherited, but only slightly, some of her facial features but I'm far more like my Dad.

I was a true 'cuckoo-in-the-nest' - and unlike either of my parents or sibling and that did not make for an easy life.

So in that sense, absolutely nothing to envy or inherit.

She died rich and with property but I chose not to inherit even that; instructing the 50% my sister didn't get, to go equally to her 2 grandsons. I've never regretted it, despite the previous quip.

I loved my mum to the moon and back (and dad). I wish I could go back and live it all again. I wish I had her patience and her cooking skills though. Miss her every day

My mum at nearly 92 is a grown up version of me. At times I'm annoyed but most times I'm proud , I look like her, think like her, laugh like her and love like her. She's a star and I think we've done our best by her and I'm grateful for all I've inherited from her.

I just think that if my children think of me just one tenth of what I thought of my mother and father, I will have done really well!

Her social skills. Everyone adored her.
But I’m grateful to her for a good brain, long legs and nice eyes. My wish would be that she hadn’t died when I was a child...?

My mam never had a bad word to say about anyone. She always saw the good. She was never a push over though.

Yep, me too. I opened this thread with apprehension because I don’t get on with the hag demon so glad to see someone else who doesn’t want to inherit anything from mum.... although I hope not for the same reason.

rocketstop health and energy too. Mam grew up on land and worked very, very hard. She was very fit until a year before she died at 96.

Her cheek bones. She was a brilliant Mum who worked full time from when I was two which was quite rare in those days. She died from bowel cancer in 1974 at the age of 51. Her mother died at age 39 so longevity is not in my maternal genes. Still my sister and I have made it to 70 and 66 respectively so not doing too badly! I wish I could ask her about her time working for Bletchley Park which we only found out about after she died.