The Genes Made Me Do It

s·moth·er (s'muth'er)

v.: to kiss, hug, cuddle, squeeze, rub or otherwise jostle your child in an extremely animated and mildly obsessive but always loving manner.

n.: Trish.

[First usage: Steve, August 2003]


OK A bit more on Jack's biting...

Anna is, shall we say, somewhat agressively amorous. Her method of hugging "the mans" is to crawl up behind them while they are crawling, overtake them so that they are underneath her, wrap her arms around their chest (er, neck) and squeeze.
Wrestling types may refer to this as a "headlock".

At any rate, Jack has come up with a plan: he just bites her arm, and she lets go.
Basketball types may refer to this as a "foul".

I have been thinking "why is my daughter like this?". And "where did she learn to do that?"
And then it hit me: like smother, like daughter.