My Brown Eyed Baby and the Milkman Syndrome

Prior to writing this article I came across an Associated Content article entitled, "Why Two Blue Eyed People Can't Produce a Brown Eyed Child," by Michelle Williams. Her article was one of the most inaccurate pieces of fallacy I have seen published in any medium in a very long time. She was blindly following obsolete curriculum accrued way back in her high school biology class and is still taking it as the word of God despite well-publicized breakthroughs in DNA coding. The Davenport eye color model, which dates back to 1907, partially attributes to her ignorance as well as all of the skeptical mothers-in-law out there.

Her inability to accept criticism by fellow readers all but forced me to write about my own findings and experience with this subject.

Picture this if you will. One night my otherwise amazing Mother-in-law treated all of us to dinner at a very nice restaurant. A couple of times over the past five years she's mentioned how my youngest daughter doesn't really look like my husband. She thought that particular dining experience was another fine time to make a wisecrack about it.

We never thought much of her observations and were always amused when she brought it up. In fact I believe I was the one who originally noticed how my daughter's complexion was a little off.

My husband, oldest daughter and I are all pale-skinned red-heads with tons of freckles, yet my youngest daughter has the same red hair but no freckles and has a darker complexion. She even tans, something I'm a little jealous about. Utterly shocked that our genes could produce a bronzed beauty, I've called her my Mexican milkman baby to both my husband and his mom in a joking way.