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Shannon Cason's Homemade
She Got That From Me | Everyday is a Story
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It's like watching pieces of yourself grow into something new and amazing!
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My teenage daughter ignores me, but she definitely can't ignore this. Every day is a story. I'm Shannon Cason. Make sure you like and subscribe. She's just like me. Well, at least 50%. Zoe just turned 17 years old yesterday and she's in that teenage stage where she just kind of tolerates old dad. And I tolerated too, because I want her to be her own person. I don't want her to be up under me all her life. I want her to stretch her wings and fly away because dad got a life too, you know. But I saw this post go down my social media feed recently and it was talking about dads and daughters and how the X chromosome passes on specific genetic trait patterns to daughters. And I brought it up while we were having dinner at one of Zoe's favorite restaurants in Detroit Park. She loves one of the meals there. It's like steak and lobster tail and some other fancy stuff. The appetizer was pretty good too. It was a shortbread or short rib appetizer. It was pretty good. But my sister and my ex wife was there, so they were listening closely about how the X chromosome affects daughters. And one of the things is height. Height is one of the strongest influences. I'm above average at 6:3, but I'm not a giant like her mom. Zoe's mom Cindy is six feet tall. And Zoe just ended up being a little bit above average like me. She's like 5, 8 or something like around there. Hair. Hair is another trait that passes on and this is a touchy subject. Black women's hair. I don't want to get into the mix of all of it, even though I grew up in a black woman's hair family business. But Zoe definitely got her hair from me and I'm bald. So she has beautiful hair. Beautiful hair. It grows slow like my hair, but it's beautiful. I believe it's beautiful. Her mom has this thick, fast growing hair, but Zoe got my nice slow growing hair and she gives me flack about that all the time. Another thing is skin tone and features, facial features. And we have the same beautiful brown skin tone. We, we have the same tone skin and she has the exact same smirk as me. Like her smile is very similar to my smile. I see the smirk that she does and I see certain things that she does far as in her facial expressions. And I'm like, that's me right there. Personality wise, there's so many connections. Zoe, Zoe's confidence, well, her mom is super confident too. So she got two confident parents. But, but Zoe knows she's the. She may not scream it from the rooftops. Her mom is more of a screamer, screaming from the rooftop type of person. I'm more of a, you know, it's all in my mind. But Zoe thinks very highly of herself and she values herself, which is good sense of humor wise, I would say. That's me definitely. I don't think she ever answers a question just directly like you ask her something, she won't answer it just right out. She, she got to put a bite of sarcasm in it, which gets her in trouble. Like I've grown out of using sarcasm on every answer. But she's in the midst of it all. She's has to learn for herself and which it burns me up sometime. But I can definitely see myself in that. Risk tolerance comes from the dad is what they said. Now I don't know about that yet. I hope she uses all that risk tolerance for good in life. I know I used a lot of risk too, and sometimes it went the wrong way. But other influences are voice. She definitely got her voice from my side of the tracks. I can hear my brother, like my little brother in her voice, you know, when she talks, I hear my brother. And intelligence. She's way more book smart than me, but she'll be the second person in the family that graduates from college. I was the first. And I definitely guide her, you know, to learn from my mistakes that I had in college in the past. I'm a guide her and that's that way. But she'll. She'll have her own life. So. But even with all these similarities and X chromosome, Y chromosome, all that Zoe is definitely her own person. She's smart, she's beautiful, strong minded, funny when she wants to be, with a bite of sarcasm. But I love that I'm experiencing who she's becoming. And I'm just, I'm just happy to witness it all. So. Happy birthday to Zoe. Now, the moment of meaning for me is sometimes those traits that frustrate us most with our children are those parts of ourselves as parents that we see that we've passed down to them. Our children become their own people, but it's pieces of us that still tag along with them for the journey. But what about you? What part of yourself do you see in your children? What can you definitely point to? And then for you, like, what is something that you swore you'd never do, you saw your parents doing. You said I'd never do that. But you see yourself doing it now. What's your story?