She’s as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside” is that ok?

It is as thou art beautiful.
Not as thou are beautiful.
Bottom is not wise but he has been enchanted to appear beautiful in Titania's eyes.

Put what you beany @CandleMug

I love seeing my friends kids posts, especially the ones where they include a few pics of them growing up. Or ones where they give us a glimpse into yhe adults they are becoming.

I do a little reel every year for my kids, the oldest is 26! I know they are probably a bit embarrassed, but I also know they actually love looking back at memories too.

And, quite frankly, if my mum ever actually publicly told people how proud they are of me and my siblings, instead of always moaning about me, i would be thrilled.

It’s cringe, tell her you love her, no need to gush all over FB, nobody’s interested

post a pic if you want the memories, but over sentimental mush is too much

Please don't put anything on social media! It's incredibly tacky and will just embarass your daughter. It's also totally unnecessary.
Just tell her to her face how you feel (or write it in a card). That's all that's required.

Put you want. Everyone’s eyes will glaze over when they read it anyway, and they’ll just write Happy Birthday in response.

Ooooh no I hate these cringe syrupy "tributes" what's wrong with " happy birthday to my lovely daughter, have a great day "

Horrible, sounds like something a sleazy old uncle would say as he tries to look down your top.

Yaaaaaawn . . . social media is SO yesterday . . .

Not everyone wants such overt attention, especially these days on social media so everyone sees it! I'm 77 but I can still vividly remember my 16th birthday. We weren't a family for great gestures but when I was getting ready for school I heard Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen being played on the record player downstairs, I refused to go down until it finished, such was my loathing of it and that was just Mum and my brother!

If it's the type of post you would usually do and she is usually ok with then go ahead I suppose.

I hate gushy stuff though and my kids hate it even more. I rarely post anything about my eldest as he is quite private but is happy with birthday messages and other special occasions as long as he gets to pre-approve any photos. On his 18th birthday I posted a short video clip of him diving on holiday with the caption "taking the plunge into adulthood, happy birthday X".photos

She is as beautiful inside as out is a potentially barbed "compliment" as you are saying someone is only a nice person if they look nice on the outside. A bit like when Titania says to Bottom "thou art as wise as thou are beautiful " with the joke being that he is neither!

Then just say something like: 'So proud of the woman you're becoming.'

The whole 'beautiful on the inside...' thing is a bit naff.

How is it narcisstic and vain? Because you birthed said child? How odd.

Geez, what a miserable bunch of people are on here. I like looking at social media posts from my friends about their kids. I love seeing their kids grow up. Otherwise I wouldn't be friends with them.

Omg how cringey!!!
why everyone feels the need to tell everyone how beautiful, intelligent, blah blah blah and what a lovey amazing young person they are

it’s a “look at me I’m an amazing mum” post followed by “please all post to boost my daughters ego”

I ignore all posts like this!

I find it odd you have to ask this. Are you new to social media that you don’t have confidence about what she would like or your intended audience.

Separately, I see nothing wrong with celebrating someone’s beauty. I don’t know what the desperation is to make it secondary to other traits someone is born with.

Put whatever you like :) it's your post. Everyone will jist say happy birthday underneath if they want to and then thats it.

It’s my DS’s 18th tomorrow and it’s not crossed my mind to concoct a social media post extolling his virtues to the world. He’d either not see it or die of embarrassment so I’d only be doing it for myself, which feels a bit icky. I don’t feel the same when people post about their babies or little kids’ birthdays, but it’s less common when they’re 18 and on my SM only seems to happen when they’ve overcome some adversity to make it to 18 which seems fair enough rather than doing general ‘my child is amazing in all these ways’ 18th post, especially bringing beauty into it.

I agree and am ardently against sharing photos or info of your children online however OP’s daughter is about to be 18. She’s an adult and I dare say has her own socials where she’ll no doubt be reposting birthday messages from family and friends. Hopefully both OP and her DD’s SM are private.

Also, from your posts it does sound like her physical beauty is actually something you are most proud of and the most notable thing about her.

This

Nothing wrong with a facebook post to commemorate your DD's birthday. Writing a cliche like that wouldn't be my style but if that's the sort of thing you say in real life then go ahead.

I just made an album titled DD's 18th Celebrations for my daughter- didn't feel any need to point out her beauty or how amazing she is as my friends and family already know that.

I celebrate her achievements from time to time on FB when relevant like passing driving test, going to uni, her art exhibitions etc. so no need to reiterate all that stuff.

If you don’t know what to post why bother at all. I have never posted anything about my kids on SM, they don’t my feelings validated on FB and they are not interested in what my FB friends think.

btw - we all think are kids are beautiful inside and out.

I hate sm birthday wishes from parents. Also partners to each other. It's fine from friends. I have an acquaintance she and her two daughters do this to each other and it's so over the top and these are adults who see each every day without fail. Virtue signalling. This lady also does heavenly birthdays.
It's cringy as fuck.

You know your daughter, not the people on MN. If you think your daughter would be pleased to see that on her social media, do it. I think it's a mums place to be proud and gushing over their kids, it's lovely.

Go for it OP, whatever you put will be appreciated I'm sure.
My almost adult DD looks out for her yearly FB post from me and enjoys going back and reading all the old ones. She reposts them on Instagram sometimes with 💀 which I believe means she finds them amusing . Not at the fact I posted but at what she was wearing. (Tween DD had many pink and sparkly outfits and now there's much more black!)

IME the worst social media birthday posts for 18 year olds are the ones that refer to the young person as 'my baby' - as in 'my baby is 18 today!' etc. It just makes me cringe for both young person and parent.