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"I adore my daughter. She&amp;#039;s beautiful and usually kind and oh-so-funny and smart and creative and all-around awesome. Except when she decides to remind me that (a) she&amp;#039;s twelve and (b) she&amp;#039;s her father&amp;#039;s daughter. She has more than a few behaviors that really, really bother me - most of them related to disrespect or slovenliness - but one or two of them ( I hate to say it) bug the everloving crud out of me because she&amp;#039;s so darn much like her father when she does them.  One of the most obvious is when I ask her to do something that&amp;#039;s nice for me or for someone else and she doesn&amp;#039;t feel like doing it. I&amp;#039;m talking stuff like &amp;quot;Write Aunt Sue a thank-you note&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Get over there next to your brother and let me get a picture of you for Grandpa&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#039;t you call your friend and see if she wants all those jeans you grew out of?&amp;quot; All of those kind of requests are met the same way. Most kids would just roll their eyes and begrudgingly do it, or ask if they can do it later, but not Anna. She makes it completely and utterly clear that she has nothing but contempt for not only the suggestion, but for me because I made it. I don&amp;#039;t just get a &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;. I get &amp;quot;I have better things to do, why are you even asking me?&amp;quot; If I push her to do it, the look on her face would make you think she&amp;#039;s shoveling out a horse stall. It&amp;#039;s a dumb little thing, I know. What pre-teen thinks of others first, most of the time? It&amp;#039;s that age, I know. But she does that just like her father. That look. That attitude. He was a bit more willing to help out, but if I asked him do something he thought was a waste of time, I got that same reaction, and it irked me to no end. Can&amp;#039;t you just slap a smile on and do it? For me? I certainly do stuff for you all the time. I actually had to clap my hand over my mouth because I started to tell her last night that she was behaving just like her father. I don&amp;#039;t ever want to be throwing his name down in front of her like it&amp;#039;s an insult and besides, it wouldn&amp;#039;t have made a difference to her, anyway. It&amp;#039;s just one of those things I&amp;#039;m going to have to deal with. She&amp;#039;s got half his DNA, and some days, there&amp;#039;s no denying it. Do your kids have any behaviors that remind you of your ex - and not in a good way? How do you handle it? [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook]  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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