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Do you still think your adult children are beautiful

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TheLastShanty · 19/04/2024 20:34

I have little ones who I think are the best looking children I've ever seen 😁 do you still continue to think this as they get older?

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Pearsplums · 19/04/2024 22:41

I definitely have the most beautiful children on the planet 😅

Although it also surprises me that each of them have been scouted more than once as teens, because although I think they are beautiful I also very much assume I am biased.

My lovely mum (in her 80s and me in my 50s) still sometimes gazes and me and says “you are just so beautiful!” I’m not, but I love that she says it.

WhatFlavourIsIt · 19/04/2024 22:46

Absolutely, they are all beautiful. I actually think my eldest son is one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen. If he was into it, he could be a model. I mean that genuinely.

Gobimanchurian · 19/04/2024 22:48

My kids weren't particularly attractive babies or toddlers, lots of eczema and buck teeth, but of course I adored them. Now however they're such lovely teenagers. Not model material at all, quite average by those standards, but I look at them and my heart sings. So yes, it's stays.

DuckyShincracker · 19/04/2024 22:48

Absolutely stunning! Both of them!

Icehockeyflowers · 19/04/2024 22:52

Compsearch Of course there isn't anything wrong with you. You are living in reality 😀
I can guarantee that if you had to group the good looking from the average looking kids, that the majority of the kids that posters are referring to, in this thread, would be in the average group.

Redwineislife · 19/04/2024 23:09

This thread has made me smile! I adore my children who are still little, and my love and pride burst more each day as their inner beauty starts to shine through.

i see the most gorgeous humans both inside and out when I look at them. Quite a spectacular feeling 😍😍

Cactusali · 19/04/2024 23:12

We are all beautiful and we should never doubt it!

CaspianPlover · 19/04/2024 23:15

Yes, they are lovely people, I am so lucky to have such fine children. They are now adults. I could not wish for more.

Deadringer · 19/04/2024 23:17

No, my dc are very average looking, actually probably slightly below average if I am really honest.

IntoTheMild · 19/04/2024 23:19

My mum definitely doesn’t! She probably thinks “how did I, such a beautiful person, make such ugly children”

Baabaapurplesheep · 19/04/2024 23:20

This is such a lovely thread! I think my young dc are beautiful but I’m sure my mum doesn’t think that about me (and likely never did)

HelloWorld68 · 19/04/2024 23:28

My PFB is 40 this year and he is still most handsomest boy EVER!

As well as being the most clever, most kind and funniest!!! ;)

I look at him and what he has done with his life, despite being brought up by a young teenage mum, and I genuinely feel my heart will burst with pride and love.

That will never change!!!

KimberleyClark · 19/04/2024 23:37

The world is full of average looking people so everyone’s children can’t be objectively beautiful! It’s more important they are good people anyway.

Snugglemonkey · 19/04/2024 23:38

SarahAndQuack · 19/04/2024 22:21

Yes - you're absolutely right. I've actually read everything I could lay my hands on, because it fascinated me. And I think there's a strong social tendency to presume a parental figure is a relation.

I just say 'it's pure coincidence' because I don't want DD ever to feel embarrassed that I'm not her biological mother. I don't want her ever to feel as if she should look, or act, or behave like me. I want her to know that we're not biologically related - and that's ok! It is totally separate from how much I love her as her mother.

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I understand that. I don't want to impose any shoulds either. I also worry that she will feel different to her sibling, due to biology. It is absolutely ok not to to be biogically related!

Durdledore · 19/04/2024 23:38

Pearsplums · 19/04/2024 22:41

I definitely have the most beautiful children on the planet 😅

Although it also surprises me that each of them have been scouted more than once as teens, because although I think they are beautiful I also very much assume I am biased.

My lovely mum (in her 80s and me in my 50s) still sometimes gazes and me and says “you are just so beautiful!” I’m not, but I love that she says it.

You have a lovely mum ❤️

DietrichandDiMaggio · 19/04/2024 23:49

SarahAndQuack · 19/04/2024 22:36

But the OP isn't asking about what is 'objectively' the case.

The question is, do you think your child is beautiful? And if so, do you still think so if they're an adult?

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I understand people thinking their baby is beautiful even when they look like a potato, but I just find it hard to believe that people look at e.g. an average looking 23 year old man and think he is stunningly good looking, just because he is their son.

idontlikealdi · 19/04/2024 23:53

Mine look like bloody catwalk models. They don't get it from me.

Imatorturedpoet · 19/04/2024 23:53

My adult children are absolutely beautiful ❤️❤️

Orangepink75 · 19/04/2024 23:54

Definitely not

MrsAvocet · 19/04/2024 23:55

Not something I think about often but I went wedding dress shopping with my DD a few weeks ago and I thought she looked incredible in the dress she chose. As did the little girl who was with another party in the shop at the same time as she exclaimed very loudly "Oooh beautiful, like a princess" when DD walked out of the changing room. And she was right of course!

DoAhhDiddy · 19/04/2024 23:57

Haha I overheard my mum telling my aunty that I wasn't beautiful (my aunty said I was). I was about 16 at the time. Talk about a blow to my self esteem (I not beautiful but still!).

Tumbleweed101 · 20/04/2024 00:04

My children are still gorgeous even now they are young adults. I wish I’d looked as amazing my daughters do. My son is very handsome. I think you see the beauty in your children. Forever.

Rosesarered222 · 20/04/2024 00:06

DoAhhDiddy · 19/04/2024 23:57

Haha I overheard my mum telling my aunty that I wasn't beautiful (my aunty said I was). I was about 16 at the time. Talk about a blow to my self esteem (I not beautiful but still!).

This is terrible I’m so sorry :(

Sunnytwobridges · 20/04/2024 00:15

flutterby1 · 19/04/2024 20:55

No, they are average. But then again I'm rational and not delulu

This. My DD is just average looking but she’s a great person which makes me proud.

Agentdanascullyx · 20/04/2024 00:16

My mum calls my sister her blond angel, used to call me pet bubble and miss piggy