Too beautiful

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Does everyone else fine their children just too beautiful for words? I’m not so idiotic that I think my kids are actually genuinely extraordinarily beautiful… so I assume other people feel this way… do you? Mine are 2 and 4 if that matters.

Same. Except mine are teenagers.

Yes I think my children are the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen but when I look at pictures of them as babies they look like little potatoes.

same 😂

Honestly yes I think my ds is the best looking boy in his class…by a mile!! He’s very handsome ❤️

my dd is one of the prettiest girls in her group of friends, although I will admit one of her friends is absolutely stunning!

No. I was never someone that thinks ‘all babies are beautiful’, because they definitely aren’t. I was always quite objective about my own.

Now our sons are grown, I do see they’re very handsome and I see girls gawping at them when we’re out.

Was it Mumsnet or another forum but I remember reading a thread years ago about a new mum who spent her first night on the maternity ward crying out of pity for all of the other mums who had hideous newborns and had to see how gorgeous hers was? She posted about this years after the fact having found photos of said bay and being shocked at just how strange looking he actually had been 😂

Mine were very cute at toddler age , then one got a bit funny looking , the other was too pretty - as teens though the funny looking one has grown into his looks and his calm clever funny personality shines out of his eyes . The pretty one is slowly turning into a young man but still has eyes and eyelashes that most girls would kill for - I’m interested to see how he changes over the next 18 months as his brother changed hugely. They aren’t beautiful but they are good looking kids

Haha. I say to my mum all the time how did I create such a perfect little boy?! He is absolutely beautiful. But everyone thinks that about their kids! But my son is the most beautiful ;)

I think most mums think their own children are beautiful. I've got grandchildren now, ranging from 2 to 17, and the youngest is so pretty that complete strangers stop the parents to say so.

Yes absolutely, I know exactly what you mean. I'm a logical person, I know it's all biology and attachment (although I reckon she is also objectively a cute kid)...

but subjectively I'm just obsessed with looking at her and hugging her - those eyes! Her beautiful wee mouth! The eyelashes! Little curls! The cute wee belly (toddler). She's absolutely heavenly to me. My DH and I frequently have conversations about how cute/gorgeous she is.

I'm pretty sure she said in retrospect he looked like a happy red potato. It was a brilliant post

My DM was always telling me how strangers would cross the road to look
at me when I was a baby as I was so beautiful. Then I read a post on here years ago with lots of people with similar stories and the penny dropped.
My DM has Alzheimer’s now and doesn’t know whom am but when she sees me she calls me the beautiful lady.

Exactly 😂😂😂

I don’t think it lasts forever.

When my boys were babies I thought they were truly stunning, little angels, their smiles would light up the world. I’d pick them up from primary school and think they were the most attractive kids in the school.

Now they’re 20 and 16, and I’m far more objective. They’re good looking lads, no doubt about it, but they’re not stunning, and they have imperfections that I didn’t see when they were younger.

I think it’s evolutionary. The younger and more vulnerable they are, the more utterly adorable they need to appear to their care-givers.

Mine are 1 and 3. Objectively they are cute.
My.ds in particular is v photogenic and a totally smiler. My dd is utterly delightful/ charming in the flesh but doesn't always photograph well.

there are def moments where i look at them and they are so... vivacious and alive!
And my heart sings just looking at them and I think how is ANYTHING this beautiful.

Also when they are asleep and.so precious and heart meltingly innocent

Not this again. This person has posted before and got their post deleted. This one is just as weird as their last one. All kids are beautiful. Your fixation with the visual appearance of children is not healthy.

Yes. I don't think these posts are even remotely legit

Huh? I’ve not posted before and why would my post be deleted? This is not about how kids look, it’s about the subjectivity of the parental gaze.

What makes a post ‘legit’? Clearly I ‘legitimately’ posted because the post exists.

I genuinely think my kids are objectively beautiful. I'm fairly normal and they have some of my traits but they both strongly resemble my MIL who is a stunning women whichever way you look at it, both now and in her youth.

They're also happy and kind and gentle and funny and all the things that make kids delicious anyway - and I think they're the most wonderful things on earth. So yes, I do think they're beautiful, subjectively, objectively, inside and out.

Mine are 10 and 12 year old boys. I have no opinions about their beauty. Their smell on the other hand…

honestly I’m not sure I’ve ever been overwhelmed by anyone’s beauty. Give me a good hill, tree or sunset though…. Or a small animal.

looking back my 13yo defo wasnt the cutest baby in the world like i thought at the time, although he did have lovely chubby cheeks!
i look at him now and think hes so handsome!
my 8yo though...she was born looking like a doll. she really was a beautiful baby, and still is now.

My daughter is now 36…and I still remember one day when she was 2 years old, walking towards me in our living room. I was pregnant with my youngest…I had this huge, overwhelming feeling, which was a mixture of fear and fiercest love. At that moment I thought she was THE most beautiful creature ever made and was genuinely afraid that I could NEVER love the new baby, because all my love was ‘spent’ on my beautiful girl.

Totally irrational of course, and obviously unfounded…but even now, 34 years later, I can still remember how that felt!