Do you still think your adult children are beautiful

[TheLastShanty]

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?

Don’t forget our children are likely to resemble the mate we chose. So my DS is very tall and lanky with deep brown eyes with long lashes. I remember swooning over his dad at the same age as that’s what I found attractive. My sister’s husband is dark skinned, short and muscular with a dazzling smile. Her DS looks like his dad so of course that her idea of perfect beauty.

I have two adult sons 22 & 21 both very handsome, caring young men, very proud of them both they are great company.

I hope you don't tell then that.

I try.to remember they exist but it's hard to notice them in the radiant glow of my grandchildren tbh

@itFeelsLikeSummer I tell them they are attractive, most people in this world are average/attractive very few are classically beautiful. It doesn't help telling people they are phenotypically beautiful when they are not.

Oh yes. My DS was absolutely stunning when he was small, became hauntingly beautiful as a teenager and has turned into the most handsome and stunning man. He turns heads.

My DSD was cute as a button when she was small and as an adult she is absolutely stunning. She too turns heads.

Everyone is biased towards their own DNA, and tyat of their partner if they found them physically attractive. we are hardwired to protect and nurture are own. obviously you tell a child they are attractive for their own self esteem, most parents will find their children' beautiful' but if you look objectively they probably have one or two attractive features. Everyone's idea of beauty is different but if you look at a class of 30 children they all won't be beautiful ( in looks) to you, a few will be handsome, some will be pretty, not all of them and maybe they will be one or two stunners in the school. Most people have one or two attractive features. The whole world would be full of beauties if it were true what every mother thought of their offspring !!

Mine are still little but I imagine that I will always think they are the most beautiful boys even when they are adults. I know it's a biological thing but they are just so cute it makes my heart hurt! DS2 did briefly resemble Nicholas Witchell as a newborn for his first week or so.

My DS is, objectively, beautiful. As a baby he looked a tiny bit like Phil Mitchell, but came into his own as a toddler. He’s 7 now, and people quite regularly come up to comment on how beautiful he is when we are out and about. I don’t really think about it much either way as he also has special needs and a learning disability so it’s not my main priority. His is a very stereotypical beauty though - cherubs and Victorian pears soap ads - all gold curls and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes. Cute on a child but who knows how he will age.

My mother thinks I’m ugly.

I think my two adult DDs are the two most glorious creatures in the planet, inside and out, yes.

DD would be if she wasn't morbidly obese.

Yes. My eldest son was the most beautiful child I've ever seen- people would stop me in the street and tell me that. He's now 17 and I can see girls fawning over him and staring at him because he is so handsome.

My youngest son is not quite as stunning but still good looking in his own right.

Wow is it normal to think your adult children are beautiful?

On my wedding day, neither of my parents told me I looked nice or even good. They didn't comment. But to be fair, they never told me I was beautiful as a child either so.

Yes. And they’re amazing human beings too.

I think it might be a generational thing. My parents never told me I was beautiful either, though I know they adored me. But it was deliberate— they didn’t want me to feel that my only value was in my looks.

They probably did think I was beautiful though as doubtless your parents do you.

When I tell my daughter she’s beautiful she discounts it as I am her mother so naturally I would think that. I don’t think anyone can win!

Lots of rose-tinted glasses on this thread...

Yes, but everyone acknowledges that. It’s the point of the thread — that parental belief that your baby is utterly beautiful continues into their adulthood.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

No I don't think they are beautiful. However I do think both of them are attractive.

I was never beautiful but I think (way back then) I was attractive. I'm not now... fat and wrinkly 😞. I saw some old photos on Facebook of some acquaintances when they were young - they were both very nice-looking then.... Definitely not now! Old age is a bummer.

My adult dcs are very good looking and striking.....all over 6 feet tall including the girls. But then so am 1 😃

They are utterly gorgeous. Now in their late 20s but always have been, a few spots notwithstanding. Love their sense of personal style, too.
I don’t think they look much like me or my blood family.

Yes, they're beautiful. When DS17 talks to me I gaze at him in awe. His eyes shine like gemstones and his face radiates kindness.

DS14 is a heartbreaker. He has the most beautiful eyes. When I hug him I melt with love.

Both of my boys are beautiful. They are also kind, gentle, considerate, patient and much wiser than I am.

My daughter is- looks nothing like me as she is mixed heritage. She is very striking looking.

Mine were cute babies, soso kids and stunning adults. They have an energy- like actors.

Exactly, I think most of them are blindfolded given the looks of the general population out there 😂

I teach teenagers, and they are all great people. I often remind myself that their parents think they are beautiful. And if you look for it, you can see it. Everyone is attractive in some way. My own children are beautiful, but I honestly find their peers beautiful too.