Help don’t tell my daughter, but she’s turning into me!
And she’s not alone according to a survey published last week 31 is the age women start resembling their mother. After that birthday they begin to adopt the same attitudes and tastes as their mum.
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is 31 and clearly her role model is the attractive and fashionable Carole Middleton who has been preparing the nursery for the prince or princess who will be arriving next month.
Wisely, Kate has decided to go home to mum when the baby is born rather than hand him or her over to a nanny. Kate and her mum have a close bond they share clothes, the same sense of fun and have a lot of sound common sense.
Being pregnant brings a daughter and mother together in a way nothing else can.
Suddenly your little girl realises quite why you worry so much. That you want to know what’s happening in her life not because you’re interfering, but because you want her to be happy and safe.
My daughter Katie and I had some storming disagreements when she was a teenager. Then she got married to a great guy and had two children. She found what she was good at, what made her happy and fulfilled and it’s being a mum.
Everything is geared around five-year-old Jack and Emily, 2.
I’ve watched the change in my daughter over the past few years with surprise and delight.
She’s happier than I’ve ever known her.
It’s brought back memories of the early years of mothering. The demands of always being “on call”. The anxieties and fears. The sheer exhaustion.
But shot through all of this is the fun, the cuddles, the joy of seeing them learning and growing, having the confidence to take on new challenges.
It’s what being a parent is all about. It’s what I loved best.
And my 32-year-old daughter is turning into me.
She’s doing what I did back in the day helping to run the family ship. It’s what women do.
So it’s true girls in their 30s start turning into their mums.
I just hope their husbands don’t notice they’re in danger of living with their mothers-in-law.
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