I have two children:

Prior to them, I didnt think that behaviour or traits are inheritable.

When one of them was aronud 3 or 3.5, I observed an interesting behaviour: It was about the meal, which contained fries - and ketchup. He saw that the ketchup was flowing slowly towards the fries and reached there finally - he became funnily hectict, trying to prevent even more ketchup touching the fries.

Today I think he behaved that way ... because ... on my plate which fries & ketchup ... if this happens ... then ... you know :-D :-D :-D :-D It drives me nuts, really - if I am at a restaurant, I ask always for separte plates for things which are fried, because I love the crust and it gets destroyed if any type of gravy is scattered around the plate :-D

Or maybe my son just found out the same, and then there is no inheritance. Im fine with this as well. :-D

But what I can clearly see, is: In their body shape I can see that their mother and I were super-fit-in-shape when they were "created".

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spiderfarmer 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Nurture.

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KellyCriterion 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Note sure if I understand what you mean?

You mean that we showed them already by that age to not mix fries & ketchup? :-D If children are that small and you are sitting with two of them at the table, handing over those ideas to them in a "nurturing way" is the last thing on what you can focus on with two small kids at the table :-))

And its always great if someone gives a downvote here if you share some personal life stories :-D

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amitav1 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

I believe that GP is trying to say that your child picked up that behaviour by watching you.

Monkey see, monkey do. (No offence intended towards your child.)

	▲	rkomorn 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		For some reason this just made me think of the "I learned it from you, dad!" PSAs of my childhood. Edit: apparently it was "I learned it by watching you!"