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Are your children the most beautiful little people you have ever seen?

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lollalaughs · 16/12/2013 12:36

Do you think your children are the most beautiful things in the world. I mean genuinely?

I have only ever known one person say their child is not cute. I have heard oh he has big ears or a big head etc

Reason I am asking because more than one person I know said before they got pregnant that if their child is ugly they would know, they wouldnt just say they are good looking for the sake of it etc etc.

They have their child and guess what they say the child is beautiful. They KNOW their child is and they would definately say if they wasn't. But the said children are not beautiful...

So question what is it that makes people think their kids are gawjusss even if they are clearly not?

SN: I am ready to be slated but this is a genuine question and relates to people pre pregnancy who slag of children for not being stereotypical cute.

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gwenniebee · 16/12/2013 14:14

Mine was the most beautiful baby ever from the moment she was born :) Clearly, I wouldn't say this to my NCT friends who are all under the delusions that their babies are the most beautiful, but secretly I know everyone must acknowledge that mine is.

In our ante-natal class, one of the dads said that obviously you would know if you got a duff one in terms of looks, but he seems to be under the same mis-apprehension as the others that his son is the best looking baby. (A mis-apprehension because, as stated above, mine is the best looking.)

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lollalaughs · 16/12/2013 14:16

So this thread kinda proves the point then.

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hmc · 16/12/2013 14:19

I do think that my dc are aesthetically gorgeous to behold as well as intelligent, funny, charming etc. Quite probably I have a blind spot! Have heard other mums say "Come on handsome" to a child who was palpably not, and another mum told me that she hoped her son would carry on playing guitar since he had the rock star looks (she was half in jest, but half not - and child in question was nice enough lad but no looker) .....so I expect that we look upon the people we love and they can appear physically beautiful to us when others would not concur

FreeWee · 16/12/2013 14:26

I love my DD more than anything in the whole world especially because she looks just like her dad who I love joint first in the whole world. However, that it also the reason why she's not the most beautiful baby I've ever seen. I don't think she's ugly but she has his features and he is not the most handsome man in the world (Bradley Cooper is ). His is, however, the loveliest man in the world and if she grows up to be as lovely as him then I will take that over beautiful any day

A baby at my toddler group is absolutely beautiful and I've told her mum she should be a baby model (her mum is pretty too but not model pretty, although obviously I've not told her that!) So objectively I know what a pretty baby is and my DD is not as pretty as that baby. But she's mine and she's brilliant fun which is more important to me. I thought all babies looked the same (which was ugly) before I had DD. Now I can tell then apart and some are prettier than others.

MurderOfGoths · 16/12/2013 14:27

DS is stunning, absolutely beautiful.

However I was also convinced he was absolutely beautiful when he was newborn, but looking at the photos he was actually quite weird looking, couldn't see it at the time though. So it's possible he's still odd looking and I just can't see it

MiaowTheCat · 16/12/2013 15:17

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revivingshower · 16/12/2013 15:26

My dd was a beautiful baby of course and I don't know why dh thought she looked like Gollum with her skinny little legs (she was a slim baby but much better than all those other fat babies). Now she is 9 and I do think she is pretty, she is slightly unusual looking with naturally curly hair and always wishes it was straight like the other girls, but i think she will get to an age where she will stand out a bit and have her own style.

vladthedisorganised · 16/12/2013 15:26

Hm. I do think DD is really cute, but she is at a cute age. At times she can look really adorable - lovely hair, twinkly eyes, big smile - wearing some strange selection of clothes, covered in paint and usually having ripped a hole in her trouser knees.

I think most of the kids I know of a similar age are cute though. Especially the mischievous ones.

TheZeeTeam · 16/12/2013 15:31

Well MY children are all supermodels. People actually faint in the street as we walk along, they are so bowled over by my delicious little creatures. And don't even get me started on my DD's viola playing. She is a master, I tell you. A master!!

thebody · 16/12/2013 15:36

my 4 are stunning. other children not so much.

ElenorRigby · 16/12/2013 15:37

DSD is beautiful looking, tall, gorgeous hair and very very pretty.

People tell me DD is very pretty too.

Greensleeves · 16/12/2013 15:40

Yes I do find my children incredibly beautiful, and I dislike the "oh my kids are average, there I said it" fashion and find it annoying.

purpleroses · 16/12/2013 15:44

I used to think DS was the most georgious beautiful child in the world. These days he's covered in spots, greasy hair, smelly and constantly falling over his long limbs.

I love him as much as ever, but no, I would not describe him as beautiful!

AbiRoad · 16/12/2013 15:48

I think I can look at my DC objectively appearance wise. I think they are [well] above average, but am able to acknowledge that there are other children we have come across who are more conventionally beautiful (but of course not better!). I suspect I see them as slightly more beautiful than they really are (although one of them did once get talent scouted!), but even so I think I am fairly objective.

WaitingForMe · 16/12/2013 15:48

I did not think it possible for children to be as heart stoppingly beautiful as DS.

Logic says he can't be the most gorgeous child ever but my eyes say otherwise.

sydlexic · 16/12/2013 15:52

I think my DC are gorgeous.

As your baby is made from you and hopefully the person you love and are attracted to, it would stand to reason that you would think them attractive.

I know with my DGC that the more I have grown to love them the more beautiful they look to me.

HesterShaw · 16/12/2013 15:52

Really? People think this about their kids?

MoominMammasHandbag · 16/12/2013 15:56

Well DS1 is 19, gorgeous looking girlfriend and lots of DD's mates have a crush on him, so I reckon he's pretty attractive.
DD1 18 is very pretty in a wholesome Holly Willoughby type way, similar type of slim but curvy figure too. She also has this dizzy kind of persona (though she's quite bright academically) that seems to make boys go a bit daft. We have been looking round universities lately and lots of the boys showing us round have gone a bit silly. She's just started clubbing with friends and commented how lads are always offering to buy her drinks, how friendly of them.
DD2 is 14 absolutely stunning, and very photogenic. She is quite geeky and shy though at the moment. One of DD1's 16 year old boy mates got quite flustered talking to her the other day, (DD1 was not impressed). Her growing up is taking everyone by surprise.
DS2 is 7, blond, bold and very alpha. Lots of Mums tell me he's gorgeous and going to be a heartbreaker . He's still my baby though.

ScooseIsLoose · 16/12/2013 16:02

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and to me my dd is the most beautiful child alive although I'm biased I have had strangers stop me and tell me she is beautiful

MrsDeVere · 16/12/2013 16:09

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KellyEllyMincePieBelly · 16/12/2013 16:10

Really? People think this about their kids? No, everyone thinks their kids are ugly, thick, horrible little shits.

HesterShaw · 16/12/2013 16:11

Er because there are no degrees at all. Calm down.

I'm just interested.

HermioneWeasley · 16/12/2013 16:12

Yes, mine are the most beautiful children who ever lived.

HermioneWeasley · 16/12/2013 16:15

I know they are because strangers constantly stop me and tell me they need to claw their own eyes out because my children are so gorgeous it hurts to look at them.

Fact.

SolomanDaisy · 16/12/2013 16:16

I definitely think my DS is beautiful, I honestly cannot judge whether I'm right or not. We wust be programmed to think it, surely? But I also think every other child in his preschool is cute. Little children just are.

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