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Lillie is now 2 and she is just like me and my daughter, shes stubborn and wants to be independent with everything

I have quite large square hands that none of our 3 children have inherited. I noticed as soon as she was born that our granddaughters hands were quite large. She is now 4 and her hands are just like mine and nothing like her Mother's which are very slender. I feel somehow that it links us together.

My granddaughter is very much like me as a child,she's shy but a bit of a clown with familiar company.

Amelia has my curly hair and tomboy nature

My little grandaughter at 2 and a quarter wrinkles her nose up when she is laughing....just like her grandma. Love her to bits.

My gorgeous DGS has definitely got my naughty streak, the way he gives a little glance before doing something he knows he shouldn't, my DD keeps telling him stop giving her the 'Granny' look

My first granddaughter now four looks just like I did at her age.

I mentioned to my sister how much my third DGD is like me, in looks and temperament. 'Oh no' she said 'that's awful'.

Everyone comments on how my eight year old granddaughter and me are like two peas in a pod - we even have similar glasses!

When my grandson was born he was the double of his mother, my oldest daughter, who was the double of me when she was born. Also, as mentioned by a previous poster, one of my granddaughters has inherited my, what my daughters call 'the look', of which mine still works and has my now nearly 40 year old daughter wondering what she has done!

My 2 and a half year old grandson walks with hands behind his back the same as I do :-)

My ten year old Granddaughter is always to be found reading a book. Anywhere, anytime, before dashing off to School, while visiting, she always has a book open. I smile because that was and is just the same as my self. I can feel the excitement that she feels when she is really lost in the world of a good story, and am happy and proud that she may have taken her book loving trait from me. Reading has been a real joy to me,and helped me through many a difficult time. I am delighted that she will have the same joy in her life.

I see my son in my lovely little grand-daughter - stubborn and determined - but the way she resembles me most is that she is already, at two, quite obviously left-handed. I had very little help when at school to cope with being a left-handler in a right-handed world so as a retired teacher I am going to ensure that she is taught the skills needed to write neatly and legibly.

Both my granddaughters have toes like mine, the smallest toe is bent inwards to the next toe.

Neither of my GCs look like me, but DGD does have my curly hair, although hers is dark. However, it is their love of reading and books from a very young age that is what makes me feel very close to them. I was so happy when I arrived one day when DGS was a tiny baby, maybe 7 months, only just able to sit up on his own but holding a board book I had bought for him, and carefully turning the pages. I buy books from charity shops village fetes and in sales in bookshops throughout the year, they read them when they stay the night and take some home with them. They have bunkbeds here and they are surrounded by double-sided bookshelves, like a cave! Bedtime here is no problem, as it wasn't for me, because we all read ourselves to sleep.

Lots of people comment on the fact that our eldest dgd looks like me although I think she looks like her mum who doesn't look at all like me. However, they both love musicals, Meatloaf and the button box!

My granddaughter has strong opinions and is not afraid to express them forcefully and passionately - just like her Grandma!

My grandaughter is eight and everyone says she is so like me in nature. A future pedant her negotiating and arguing skills would make her a brilliant career as a barrister. Very determined and not quite sure as to why she isn't yet in charge of the world. Excruciatingly honest and not yet much grey between the black and white! I think I have mellowed but I do recognise a lot of myself in her!

for us it's the eyes and chin that resemble our side of the family

I inherited my feistiness and strength of character from my Grandma. She was widowed young and made and sold soap on the market to support her large family. She was a big influence on my early years as I lived with her for 7 years until my parents got a council house. She died when I was 10 but I remember her so well. My daughter has very similar characteristics but not as much as my very independent, straight talking 8 year old grandaughter. It is difficult to keep a straight face when she is talking to you. Although her life materially is so different to her Great Great Grandma
her outlook on life and her personality is uncanningly similar. It is comforting to know that whatever life throws at her in the future she will face it full on and survive.

My eldest Grandaughter is very active and loves to be outdoors all the time regardless of the weather. Apparently I was like that at her age, she looks like my DIL in many respects. We are all really tall and she is petite like her mum.

Both my boys look like a combination of their dad and me, to be honest I always thing its a bit freaky looking at someone and seeing two people's faces combined

Even though my grandsons are adopted, they both are me.
At a playgroup I was told how much they looked like me !!!!!! and they do. BUT it is really their characters which are me. The youngest who is four, is so dogmatic, will not bend and has great determination. ( I hope he doesn't get in trouble in the future but use it for strength of character to finish what he has started ) The eldest is six and just loves learning like me, but not the same topic !!!!!!!!!! He has a love of life and an enquiring mind. So it is not always in the GENES but their experiences and love

I never recognise myself in any members of my family but the baby of our family is coming up four and is so like her auntie even I can't miss it. They have the same cheeky grin, funny facial expression and infectious laugh. There may be 30 years between them but they have the same sense of humour and ability to laugh at themselves - they are often in fits of giggles over something none of the rest of us get.

None of them look like me, but you can hear it in their words! They have the same sense of humour as me