Top 20 signs you're turning into your parents revealed
How many will you admit doing? 🤣
Thanks to the pandemic, moving back home with the parents was an inevitable outcome for many.
As hormonal teenagers and messy students, it’s bound to have been a struggle for some. You can’t leave dirty dishes lying in the sink, you actually have to hang up your clothes and you’ve got a curfew again.
Despite some of these everyday annoyances, a recent survey of 2,000 UK adults found half believe they are morphing into their own mum or dad.
Falling to sleep on the sofa, repeating the same dodgy jokes and saving old shopping bags are among the top habits we inherit from our parents.
Louise Care, for research agency OnePoll, which carried out the study, said: “We learn how to be parents from our own parents – who else?
“So, it’s no surprise to find many adults consider themselves mini-versions of their own mums and dads, at some point down the line.
“It’s interesting that many of the signs you’re becoming a parent are very personal things – that all parents seem to do.”
Other signs include the realisation you now dress for comfort instead of style and relying on your kids for tech support.
Check out the top 20 signs you’re turning into one of your parents
How many will you admit doing? 🤣
You dress for comfort, not fashion
You start to realise that most of the time, your parents were right all along
You think all modern music is terrible
Falling asleep on the sofa
You use the same phrases like: "You're not going out like that"
You save all old boxes, tins and bags 'just in case'
You tell your kids off in the same way
You rely on your kids for tech support
You get obsessed with weather reports
You're constantly nagging
When you got your first grey hairs
You pick the same arguments they did
You get past the age they were, when they had you
Telling the same jokes again and again
You tell your kids off by using their full name
Regularly using the phrase "Go ask your mum/dad"
When you leave the bathroom in the morning, you realise it now has 'a smell' you recognise from your own childhood
Your kids mock your fashion sense
You have the same driving habits
You look in the mirror one day and realise you look like them
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