MY GENES IN MY TREASURES

I woke up this morning with the idea to talk more about the genetic influence of parents to their children and – to my surprise – going through the plenty websites that explain the genetic influence from parents to children, I learned that the most influential are the father’s genes.

This means that my mother (now about 83 y/o) has been correct telling me that both my children would have come the same, no matter who their mother was. In fact not only my young angel daughter G. is pretty much identical to me, not only in skin color and attitude in studying and work hard for whatever she wants, but my son Br. too is almost the reincarnation of my own dad, his passion for camping and climbing is totally out of my dad, who when young climbed several mountains in the Italian alps and of whom I have several pictures (from about 80 years ago).

This goes totally against my love for anything that has to do with water (oceans, lakes, rivers and seas), but gives me too a very good idea of both strengths and weaknesses of my son, who’ll learn from me what to pay attention to, as his life will go on.

My dad had a cyst on his right shoulder that was given to him by his older brother who used to look over him when studying math, his brother used to punch my dad on the shoulder if he wasn’t correct in doing his homework, at least this is what my dad always said about the importance of studying (like he would ever punch me for not studying hard enough).

Well I must admit that I wish that my son had an older brother too, because he isn’t like his sister at all when it comes to studying for school, but hey! Wat the heck! How could a two years younger girl punch an older and much stronger brother when studying?

Aside from this I love my son more than I can say and I know of his huge importance for the Lingiardi family name, in fact he’ll be the only one who – through his children –is going to bring into the future not only the name, but my dad’s and my genes too. Now look at the links below that explain how important are the genes from the father in the makeup of the personality of an individual.

1. http://en.yibada.com/articles/25536/20150409/iq-level-depend-mothers-genes.htm
2. https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/10/07/genes-mother-may-influence-intelligence-child-fathers/
3. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/03/03/genetically-more-like-dad/#.WI-629crIdX
4. http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/09/16/no-research-has-not-established-that-you-inherited-your-intelligence-from-your-mother/#1591c6e44551
5. https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/10/10/no-not-inherit-intelligence-mothers-genes/
6. https://www.quora.com/Which-contribtes-a-stronger-genetic-influence-the-father-or-mother
7. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/youre-more-like-your-father-than-your-mother-say-scientists-10084995.html