[jrott]

Having a child now makes wanting him to be "like me" seem like such a fools errand at this point. He's so obviously his own person that even if he decided to do things in a similar way to me his path to getting there would be so different that it wouldn't actually be the same at all.

[etrautmann]

I’m not entirely sure why someone would want their offspring to “be like them” aside from validating their life choices?