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Does everyone think their kids are beautiful?

223 replies

Hoolajerry · 16/01/2020 22:47

Looking at my dd tonight and wondering how I produced something so lovely. She's 12 with long nearly black hair, very pale skin with a few freckles and grey/blue eyes. She's slim and toned and just lovely really.
Whenever you read about dc on here they are always gorgeous according to parents. Do all parents think their kids are gorgeous?

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StrawberryDreamX · 16/01/2020 22:52

I've always thought Dd was beautiful. Ds was a bit funny looking for a few days after he was born but now I think he is one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.

Ohyesiam · 16/01/2020 22:57

No. I used to think dd was plain, but she got to 12 and really blossomed. She was trying on prom dresses earlier and looked great.
Ds has always been beautiful. He has really full lips and dark Intense eyes.

newmumwithquestions · 16/01/2020 22:59

Yes I do.

But then I though they were beautiful as newborns, and looking back they looked slightly like potatoes...

RoomR0613 · 16/01/2020 23:01

I think both my children are the most amazing little beings but my eldest has always attracted more looks based attention than her younger sibling as she is. The youngest is full of personality and genuinely lights up every room she bursts into. She's a bit odd looking but they just adds to her charm.

Beauty is more than just pure looks, it's a twinkle in an eye, a cheeky smile, a happy cheerful confidence. It's all the bits and nuances of our DC that we know that aren't obvious from a photo or to everyone else that make them beautiful to us.

Pingue · 16/01/2020 23:01

Most children are beautiful. They have small cute features, big eyes and snub noses. But most beautiful children don’t turn into beautiful adults.

potbellend · 16/01/2020 23:03

I do for for, mine are fucking gorgeous, but of course I'm bias.

AutumnRose1 · 16/01/2020 23:03

When I was little, my best friend’s mum said to my mum, of her daughter, “well I know she’s not attractive but she is clever”.

Right in front of the little girl. 37 years later, I remember it!

MoonlightBonnet · 16/01/2020 23:03

I think virtually everyone thinks it, because children generally are beautiful and we’re programmed to think so. And then there’s the additional glow that our love gives them. Of course we think they’re beautiful!

olivehater · 16/01/2020 23:04

I think deep down we know if they fit in with conventional aesthetics or not. Looking at mine objectively, my two boys were extremely conventionally beautiful babies. Blonde cherubs with huge blue eyes and full lips, they always attracted attention from random strangers in supermarkets etc. I thought my daughter was a bit odd looking if I am honest and wondered where she had come from. She didn’t get quite as much fuss. She had a strong square face shape, smaller hooded eyes and not quite as full lips and sticky out ears and she was bald for longer. I thought she looked like an imp. However, now she is five she is incredibly beautiful and striking, her face shape makes her look like a model, her eyes though not large have a striking shape about them and are an incredible pale blue. She is prob the most beautiful of the lot in a more unusual way. But I do remember thinking she wasn’t for a time.

Bythebeach · 16/01/2020 23:05

I did when they were babies/toddlers! Have a bit more objectivity now they’re older. DS1 who is 14.5 is very good looking though-very fit from sport, latte skin, big eyes with v long eyelashes and floppy hair. Girls flock round and my friends comment. DS2 and 3 are perefect to me but objectively less universally appealing currently.

Foxes157 · 16/01/2020 23:05

My children are beautiful to me but to everyone else they are unconventional.

thefirsttimer · 16/01/2020 23:07

I think I would have been objective but I turned out to give birth to a very 'conventionally' cute baby. DS is almost 1 now and we're constantly told how good looking he is. I agree with PP though that good looking children don't always turn into good looking adults, and vice versa.

LemonMousse · 16/01/2020 23:09

I remember looking at DS in hospital and looking at the other babies and thinking 'How bloody lucky am I to have such a beautiful child compared to these very average looking babies?'
I imagine all the other new Mums were thinking the same Smile
Fast forward to my first Grandchild who is frankly far more beautiful than anyone else's grandchild. I know it's true because his Mum agrees 👍

willothewispa · 16/01/2020 23:12

It's a well known fact that every parent thinks that they have the most beautiful children on the planet. It's wrong though because I know that I do Grin

DramaAlpaca · 16/01/2020 23:12

My three sons are surely the most handsome young men to have ever set foot upon this earth. At least, they are to me Smile

YouJustDoYou · 16/01/2020 23:20

I'm told.mine are beautiful. It fucking petrifies me. Mens' attention starts gearing up to young girls from around 12, 13 years of age onwards, so...wish they were ugly in some ways, tbh. My own sexual harassment started early, from 12. I wouldn't wish that on then for anything.

xtinak · 16/01/2020 23:20

I notice when my baby has an ugly phase - like when her first teeth came in - or her clothes don't suit her (had to ban the family from buying peach clothes). So I can't be totally deluded.

Poetryinaction · 16/01/2020 23:33

One of mine is so beautiful it stops you in your tracks. To me all 3 are as beautiful as each other, but I know that one is objectively stunning. It doesn't matter at all that her siblings are not like that. Every line of their face and movement of their body is astounding to me. They are all perfect just as they are.

Reginabambina · 16/01/2020 23:37

Mine are quite beautiful, not absolutely gorgeous though (they have very masculine features already which just makes them look a lot older and generally detracts from the cuteness.

user764329056 · 16/01/2020 23:42

My grandkids are a beautiful mix of Jamaican and European heritage who never look pasty and pale like me, have gorgeous freckles, ringlet hair and green eyes, so very unusual and are always attracting comments on their looks, wouldn’t matter to me what they look like, will always be gorgeous

FlaskMaster · 16/01/2020 23:42

Mine are all really cute and totally gorgeous. Must be in the genes! Grin

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 16/01/2020 23:53

I know that DS is gorgeous, due to he is MY BEAUTIFUL BABY Grin

Objectively, when he was little - ie baby, toddler, up to maybe 7ish, he attracted a LOT of comments from strangers on how beautiful he was. And I mean from grandads on buses, not just lovely ladies in marks and Spencer's - people used to gasp. (Which made me feel much better about the fact that he wrecked my body Confused) And even now, looking back at photos, I can definitely see he was a stunner.

So now that he is 12, he's still a handsome lad to his ma, but the gasps have dried up and I'm aware that, although he's still relatively attractive, he's no longer breathtaking to people who are not me. However, and it's a great big however, his personality has taken over from where his golden curls left off, so his social life makes up for it Grin

mumwon · 16/01/2020 23:58

I remember an old aunty referring to a strange looking animal on tv as "having a face only a mother could love" Grin Actually I think if people have charm & most of all are happy than they are beautiful, & all children are beautiful to their mums -saying that my dc -now adults- are a very handsome bunch & it must be their father because I am not! Grin

PickAChew · 17/01/2020 00:00

Nah.

But I have teenage boys, one of them going through a particularly gawky phase.

ZenNudist · 17/01/2020 00:02

I do. 9 and 5yo with glasses one handsome one cute as a button