I’m sure most parents love to hear how much their baby looks like them, and I find myself always checking my wallet when they make such an obviously flattering statement. After all, they are

  1. affirming your parenthood over a wonderful child
  2. comparing you to the most beautiful thing you know (your baby) and
  3. I often don’t see the resemblance myself

It sometimes feels like a contest where the parent who doesn’t get the “oh your baby looks just like you” feels left out, slighted in some vague way. All totally irrational, but that’s parenthood I guess.

Mandy occasionally thinks that people say that Elsie and me look alike more often than her and Elsie. But she has science on her side showing that babies in fact do look more like their fathers in early life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/22real.html

I dug up some old pictures of me as a child and I think the similarities are there, don’t you?

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