Would you say your child is THE best looking in a crowd

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I'm really intrigued.

Was having this conversation today with a group of mums.

In a crowd full of children would you look at your own child and think 'they are the best looking out them all'

Because let's face it, everyone seems to think their daughter is the 'most gorgeous' and their son the 'most handsome'

Is it rose-tinted glasses?

(Yes, a very superficial topic, but one I found interesting)

When I had my eldest the mid wives took him away over night so I could rest. The following morning I asked if this was normal. No, apparently everyone on the ward thought he was an exceptionally beautiful baby. He's 22 now and still stands out in a crowd. He has thick dark hair down to waist, and has grey eyes, which is an odd combination. The youngest was a pretty baby but now an average looking 18 year old. Neither look like me.

my dd24 is very very pretty. One day I realized this around 17. She is petite with clear skin attractive features perfectly shaped teeth and lips and long lush hair. She’s graceful and intelligent. She is noticed many places she goes. I would say “it’s nice to be pretty but more important to be nice”and have encouraged her to work for success and be genuine. To me she is is cognizant of her attractiveness but not immersed in or defined by it.

This is my youngest. The most beautiful big green eyes and curls for days, clear peachy skin…. And unfortunately always covered in mud and twigs and yoghurt and usually with a finger up his nose!!!
Kind of ruins the cherub look.

Other DC is gorgeous, beautiful features and was a beautiful baby. He scowls a lot though and is very cool, he gives off bad boy, brooding Heathcliffe vibes. He’s definitely better looking than most of his peers but it’s more because he has something different about him, hard to say what it is. He’s just cool af even at 5 😅

In my son's class they have children from so many heritages, I find so many of the children are beautiful and it's lovely they all look so different. (And it doesn't matter a single bit to them (age 4). There are a lot of mixed ethnicity children round me, my son included. Of course I think my child is beautiful. I also think he smells amazing. That's because he is my child!

Or maybe I'm blinded by parental bias and they're actually fugly but I don't see it

Honestly, there is a lot of that on this thread, but we may as well live in delusional bliss!

this is so funny, I don’t think my kids are great beauties but my mum thinks they’re objectively supermodels.

Looks are subjective in general regardless of whose child is whose anyway

Mine is objectively gorgeous. People used to stop me in shops all the time to tell me how beautiful she was as a baby. Now she's a teen and she stands out in a crowd as she has incredible hair - thick, wavy, waist-length and a glorious red the colour of shining autumn leaves. She's very clever and self-motivated too, doing very well at school without us doing any nagging. Every day, I think how lucky I am. Even when she's being a moody wee shite! 😁

My grandmother always used to say every mother thinks her baby is the most beautiful and this was definitely true for me. When ds1 was born I felt sorry for the other mums on the maternal ward as to me he was so beautiful and I thought the other babies didn’t come close. But I think they probably felt the same. Their baby was the most lovely to them.

I think both my kids are lovely and find it quite surprising as I was a particularly ugly child. So I’m somewhat shocked at how good looking I think they are. (I’m still not great now - passable and don’t scare small children and animals too much on a good day🤣🤣).

My son-yes, because he was until the age of about 8. People stopped in the street to look at him and he was always being scouted.My dd was an averagely pretty girl with nice hair to anyone without mum-glasses!

When my first DD was born I genuinely thought she was the most beautiful child ever born. Looking back at the pictures without the benefit if all the post birth hormones and she was an average looking baby with a slightly funny shaped bald head.

Now I think all 3 of my children are perfectly lovely looking but I don’t think any of them are stand out head-turningly stunning!

Yes I would, but that's because they are.

I mean she’s objectively the most beautiful human to ever be born so yes, of course!

Or I’m ridiculously biased which may of course be a possibility.

I do remember feeling slightly bad at baby groups because my baby was clearly the most beautiful by a long way, and I didn’t want to make the other mums feel bad! Mortifying now, particularly when looking back at the photos of what DH describes her ‘love child of Phil Mitchell and Johnny Vegas phase’ 😂

That blip aside though she is definitely a very pretty child and was as a baby, I got stopped in the street/ in shops by people commenting especially on her eyes and insanely long eyelashes.

It’s weird because she is also very clearly like me (that gets commented on a lot) but I’m not really anything special at all - she’s kind of got my shape face and features but DH’s far nicer colouring, bigger eyes/ fuller lips and those aforementioned insane lashes.

She does also have my build though, which is quite broad and ‘sturdy’ and so she’s not like a little dot - I always felt very sad I wasn’t a slender, petite little thing like my friends and I hope I can ensure DD has more confidence than I ever did.

My youngest objectively is a total stunner.. blonde hair, huge dark green eyes, beautiful smile that lights up his face.. he naturally tans with just a hint of sun so just looks really healthy all the time! He is also ridiculously charming! So sweet natured!

Eldest is also very handsome to me but has one sticky out ear, has inherited my blue-pale skin and his two front teeth have come in so he has these two huge front teeth whilst the rest of his front teeth are still tiny baby teeth! He also has a lazy eye which tends to drift with the flash of a photograph!

Both are still the most children in the world though!

My boy is very, very good-looking, and I I'm not the only one who thinks so. Right now I would say he's at his peak - 19, very fit and healthy total gym bunny very happy. He has dark curly hair and dark eyes with great cheekbones and beautiful lips. But I can see he's not the most beautiful of his friends - frankly men and women of this age are glorious.

100%, just the other day I said to Mr Blingismything 'how did we produce such a beautiful daughter?' She is truly beautiful inside and out. Our other child was also headhunted in Hollister when they were 17.

I mean your kids are always beautiful to you. We generally have a bias towards those who look like us. Yesterday I was in a theatre with DD and one of the actress's was waving at her and making her feel very special, despite there being other children there who were arguably better looking. But my DD has huge dark brown eyes, eyelashes and olive skin, and this actress had the same complexion. It's easier to see beauty in kids that remind us of our younger selves.

Most children are average looking as are teenagers and adults.
I’ve worked in a school for over 15 years and I’ve only ever met one child who is objectively beautiful. More importantly she was a lovely girl who was kind to others.
This is the second similar thread on here where people are complimenting their own childrens looks’. Are some of you drunk tonight or do the majority genuinely believe what they are saying?
I think I’d rather compliment my child on another attribute given that good looks are a genetic fluke.

It is a bit shallow to dwell on looks. Statistically, children will grow up to be average in looks. As a parent, I can be objective. Never understood this your children will always be gorgeous in your eyes. Erm no, my eyes work fine thank you.

My grandmother told me it is rude to compliment yourself and your family. However, on social media when my girls were at primary school the amount of school mums gushing about their child’s beauty seemed to increase daily. It just makes me uncomfortable and without being cruel it was always far from true. It would be a very average looking child which is actually good enough.
Is it any wonder more and more young adults are opting for botox, fillers, breast enlargement etc.
People need to stop fixating on beauty and the idea of perfection. This is something that is personal to me as I grew up in a household where mum wanted me to be the ‘best looking girl’ in my class, school, ballet class etc.
I won’t go into detail but I believe this type of pressure and unrealistic expectation led to me developing anorexia at the age of 13. I was very very ill.
I would hope that those who admitted they have thought their child ‘is the best looking,’ or makes it known that looks are paramount thinks about consequences such as this and keep these expectations hidden away from their child/children. It can cause huge issues including low self esteem, eating disorders, self harm, anxiety.

No, I’m unfortunately a very objective parent and never had those rose tinted specs.

However, I do think mine are both pretty - not the most beautiful children ever but definitely above average - and since I am a very objective parent, I’m fairly sure it’s true.

One is, one is not.

DS had a holiday job in an officer in Covent Garden and they sent round a memo asking the female staff to leave him alone because he was only 15. Both of mine are good looking and it shows when they are with their cousins especially.

Depends on the crowd

My eldest son is very beautiful. He gets a lot of female attention, and sometimes from older girls/women. I always talk to him about how inappropriate it is if they're 18+ as he's 16, but he just thinks it's cool 🤦🏼‍♀️