Does everyone think their kids are beautiful?

[Hoolajerry]

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?

@FlossieTeacakes that actually made me crease!🤣 So true!

My two kids are adorable (and totally different looks - wouldn't pick them as siblings in a crowd).

Having said that. I look back at baby pictures, and they were both pretty average, yet at the time I thought they were the best looking babies I'd ever seen.

In conclusion. Hormones are powerful.

What a strange way to describe your child "slim and toned"

DD1 is beautiful. DD2 is a bit odd looking, but she's quirky and cute and will be fine.

Of course all parents think their own children are gorgeous; that's evolution and it's what keeps said kids alive until they can fend for themselves.

It's the infernal making stuff up that some women (always women) do, to try to elevate their own children as being some kind of superior being that is truly stultifying - and very transparent. What does it serve to do that? Any 'validation' received will most likely be fake and clamouring for it makes most people want to back away at speed.

It must be like constantly wearing beer goggles but without the sex.

Both mine were shocking as babies, then exceptionally good looking as toddlers and now they’re average.

I think all parents are somehow 'programmed' to find their children attractive and I've certainly had moments of wondering how I managed to co-produce such attractive children as mine - my husband's genes, perhaps! Even the hesitant moustache/beard & zits phase of teenage years has not diminished my pride in their looks.

I'm really surprised at how many people think their children are beautiful. Perhaps I'm missing something! I have three - of course I love looking at them, but it's perfectly obvious to me that they are completely normally average looking. Attractive enough, but nothing unusual. And I'd say the same about the vast majority of their classmates, although again it is easy for me to see objectively which (few) children are genuinely very attractive and likely to grow up into very attractive adults.

Judging by the percentage of responses on this thread from parents who think their children are stunning, perhaps I just live in an unaytraive area!

My son is, and has always been the most beautiful child on the planet. As a toddler he has curly blonde hair, grey eyes, beautiful skin and a cheeky smile.

However I look back at photos of him when he was a baby and wonder how I could have thought he couldn't get any more gorgeous when i know what he looks like now!

It doesn't really work does it cheese?

All these children who are supposedly stunning and beautiful and get stopped in the street by strangers commenting on their looks etc. But as an adult I can only think of one or two truly beautiful looking people I actually know. Most of the rest are average and perfectly pleasant looking, but what happened to all these gorgeous children?! Maybe their beauty is short lived...

My son is seriously beautiful. I’m genuinely not just saying this because i’m his mother. I am constantly stopped in the street and told how “pretty” “beautiful” “fabulous” he is. I’m shocked to be honest. He is aesthetically stunning and I have no idea how I produced him. His eyes are truly beautiful and he has thick, long, dark lashes. I’ve been told multiple times that he’s the most beautiful boy X,Y or Z has seen. I hope he doesn’t all of a sudden become plain, i’d feel rather disappointed.

My DD is going through that awkward phase where all her big teeth have come through, she’s lost that “cuteness” But she has incredible cheekbones and lovely, full lips. I reckon she’ll be a very good looking young woman.

I do honestly believe though that all children are beautiful. Each and every one of them has some kind of beautiful feature.

Or maybe it's just complete fantasist bollocks posted by women who perhaps feel short of attention themselves and need to buoy themselves up? It's a bit pitiful but harmless really.

Sorry VillageFete, we cross-posted. If I'd known you were going to post that, I would have typed faster and got mine in first so that it didn't look like a respond to yours.

This thread is comedy gold...

@bumblenbean it is, isn’t it? i’m reading back my contribution and pissing myself. I sound like such an idiot! I’m genuinely laughing out loud at some of the posts on here. Are we that deluded/biased? I swear my son is genuinely facially blessed though (I think?!!)

I highly doubt all these children are getting stopped in the streets because of their incredible beauty. People will make up all kinds of bullshit to have a brag

Yes, from skimming this thread, the majority if not everyone appears to think that!

village It’s a great thread because it’s actually quite sweet in a way and pretty harmless but also very amusing how every poster’s child is apparently even more of an Adonis than the previous poster’s ... 😂

Babies and toddlers do get stopped on the street all the time and told how gorgeous they are though! Because they are. It doesn’t mean they are uniquely beautiful.

My son was beautiful until pre teen. Now he looks like his dad. And of course it's him and he's mine and hell be beautiful in ways to me but I look sometimes and think oh why coukdnt you stay the same lol

Toddler Dd is very pretty, big blue eyes. Curly hair 2, brown with bits of blonde, beautiful inside and out.. People always stop and say she's pretty.

Dsd has beautiful eyes.. Just like dh.. But is very' plain' no other stand out features. But she seems to change vastly looking back at photos even a few. Months ago

I think old people must just stop a lot of people with babies and toddlers on the street and talk about how beautiful they all are! The parents then think it’s just their child.

Remember that 49,999% of the population is better looking than average.
Then remember that youth is beautiful by itself.
So, most children will be considered beautiful in some way. Some more than others.

Also by definition, your child will look a bit like you or a relative, which is something we find attractive, or like their other parent, who we found attractive at some point.
So, it's perfectly natural that children also look more attractive to parents than the average child.
It's not so much that parents are deluded.

It's not evolutionarily desirable that parents are repulsed by their child.

Neither of my DC were attractive as newborns. After a long arduous, forceps labour I was presented with a small David Jason as my baby girl.

Second time a tiny screaming, cross eyed version of my mother was lifted from behind the screen. DH even said don't worry she'll grow into her face. 😂 DM said I looked exactly like this as a nb too.

First turned settled to a conventionally cute baby (blond baby mullet, green eyes, massive lashes). I'm mixed heritage and dark so there's novelty for me there.

Second grew thick black curly hair and had bright blue eyes as a baby, and elf ears. She did grow into her face.

Both now have mid brown hair and hazel eyes and dimples, one's cheeky, and the other still looks like my lovely DM. Clearly they're both gorgeous!

I think my son is stunning.

I know I'm biased but I do also have people telling me he's gorgeous and a few have suggested he does child modelling.

I don't know where he gets it from. People say he looks like me but I really don't think I'm that attractive!

My mother never thought I was beautiful. She always told me I was ugly. I am ugly, but it was still hurtful.