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

[lollalaughs]

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.

[Mrsbear1]

There is a girl I know who used to mock other people babies calling them ugly...and then had a baby she thought was strange-looking. I like to think that was karma.

[VikingLady]

See, this is tricky. Several people in the street have told me DD is gorgeous and obviously i believe she is (and am faintly sorry for everyone else that their child is not as cute ) but is it true?

After all, I've heard friends telling the parents if some astoundingly ugly children that their kid is cute, so mine may actually be weird-looking too.

This worries me more than it should

[loveolives]

Honestly, my son isn't that attractive but my daughter is quite beautiful. I've always been honest about it.

[AbiRoad]

Is it just me checking out photos on profiles to see all these beautiful children?

[SuckItAndSee]

they are very cute, but I'm not sure beautiful is the word…

dd1 has a big ole' moonface, and dd2 looks like a little, fat, version of me.

[HorseyGirl1]

Personally, I think you are all wrong my PFB is obviously the fairest of them all - preens... I'm lying of course- all MNers kids are gawjuss!

[SettingPlaster]

What a weird thread, with people dropping casual references to child modelling and complete strangers fainting with the beauty of people's offspring (though I realise some of the latter are tongue in cheek...) as completely objective proofs of loveliness!

I suppose we should thank our stars that the new possibility of posting photos hasn't turned it into a child version of Hot or Not.

[dementedma]

Dd1 was a very ugly toddler, dd2 was a lovely bonny baby and ds was a smiley baby but had a big head. Still does. I love them though.
Dsis holds the prize for the ugliest baby ever with dear nephew. Wispy ginger hair, big nose, baby acne...... Now six foot two, drop dead gorgeous and studying medicine lol

[Bicnod]

at baby hot or not

no no, whistleblower, you are so wrong.

[ScooseIsLoose]

I really don't get the sneering on this thread. Are people not allowed to think their children are the most beautiful people on earth even if they are not? I only mentioned that people have stopped me and told me dd is beautiful as it made my day. She is autistic and when she's having screaming rages she's not so cute but it still cheers me up when other people say she is wether they say that to everyone or not.

[NuggetofPurestGreen]

This is hilarious.

Also of course there are ugly babies in the same way there are ugly adults. And I don't think it's pathetic to look at people that way just a statement of fact (or fact based on opinion at least!)

[NuggetofPurestGreen]

Scoose of course people are allowed to think there children are beautiful and/or the most beautiful, that's normal and actually very sweet.

What amuses me is the fact that many posters are convinced that their children are objectively totally gorgeous when surely they should realise that it's a function of their being the parent to think that and not everyone's children can be so beautiful.

[sparklyskyy]

I thought my DS was absolutely gorgeous as a newborn and all the way up to now (11 months). Now when I look back at photos I think "really?!" and feel bad that I subjected people (FB) to endless photos Looking back I thought, at the time, he was stunning and the most gorgeous baby ever. Now I think that he wasn't very braw Every day I look at him and think he's the most gorgeous boy ever but then the photos tell a different story...

I have friends that have babies the same age and I think my DS is by far the better looking baby out of them all but they probably think the same!

Funnily enough my DP looks back at photos and thinks our DS is as gorgeous now as he was then which is lovely. Even though I'm still thinking "really?!"...

[sparklyskyy]

And I meant my friends are probably all thinking the same about THEIR babies not mine

[Mummytotwox]

I am surprised at how beautiful my babies are. Especially with how ugly dh nephews n nieces are.

[Whistleblower0]

Yes the casual references to child modelling that somebody upthread mentioned. I found that one particularly nauseating!

[flipchart]

I remember MIL being in hospital and I wouldn't allow her to have a picture of Ds2 up because he was so ugly. He was round and heavy and looked like a basket ball. This was when he was about 6 months.
I have no idea why I was so embarrassed! Feel a bit ashamed now.

[MalcolmTuckersMistress]

Well as long as none of mine have inherited MIL's nose then they'll be ok!

[MalcolmTuckersMistress]

Oh an new born babies are absolutely beautiful because of what they are, but objectively, I guess compared to other mammals in the animal kingdom they probably look like something from Doctor Who.

[MummyPig24]

Of course, my children are the most beautiful creatures. But not only the way they look, it's the way they are too that makes them beautiful. We are programmed as parents to think our children are beautiful.

I think a lot of kids are cute but there are some that you kind of think "hmm, maybe they'll grow into their looks." People probably think the same about mine!

[MummytoMog]

But she honestly did do baby modelling. It paid shit, and was a total pain in the arse, but my precious first born is in several adverts, including one where someone is sniffing her arse and looking disgusted (I think that was for Vicks).

DS is cute, but DD was/is breathtaking. Now she's a bit older, she's pulls hilarious faces and I have loads of photos of her just looking daft (and, in one case, like William Hague, which was worrying). But catch her unawares and she's the prettiest thing ever. Do you remember the original illustrations from the Magic Faraway Tree? She looks like Fanny in those line drawing illustrations.

[AbiRoad]

It is not necessarily the case that everyone on here is deluded about the beauty of their children (although clearly some may be). For example, I think Rachel Zoe's son (Skylar?) is a very beautiful child (who wears odd clothes sometimes) so if she was posting on here claiming that her DS is beautiful, then it would (to my eyes) be true.
It is also possible that the thread title has attracted people with beautiful children. People who acknowledge their children are less than beautiful are less likely to post I suspect.
I am half tempted to post a photo of my DC to prove that I speak the truth when I talk of their beauty, but am not brave enough just on the off chance that I may be deluded (and also I am sure everyone would be very polite and exclaim over their beauty whatever the truth).

[NuggetofPurestGreen]

I don't think everyone is deluded abi obviously there are some beautiful children the same as there are some beautiful adults. Just most people are deluded .

I wouldn't exclaim over your children's beauty unless they really were...

[fairisleknitter]

My baby was incredibly beautiful. I didn't leave the baby for quite a few weeks util one weekend I took myself off for a bit of retail therapy around the nearest city. Upon my return I was surprised to see my baby was quite ordinary-looking.

By the next morning I had an incredibly good looking child again!

[pictish]

I know that one fairisle!
I remember something similar, having left ds1 over night at my mum's for the first time. Lol!