Does every parent really think their kid is the most beautiful?

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This was a conversation bought up in the staff room regarding parents and their kids. What's the mumsnet opinion?

No. I'm sure, whilst we all think they are beautiful, only the seriously deluded would think their wonky-faced offspring was the most beautiful. And, for that kind of person, the beauty pageant was created

Nah. My DC are the most amazing, perfect, brilliant DC ever. To me. Truly deluded parents are a PITA.

No. I can appreciate other children's beauty and also realise when mine are going through a plainer stage which they have tended to at various points.

I think that my son is the handsomest, cleverest, funniest human being that has ever been born on Planet Earth. I glow with pride at every one of his achievements.

However, I am aware that not everyone shares my view & accept that, for them, it's their child who holds that title.

well they might, they would however be wrong, mine are.

They are beautiful to me. I don't expect anyone else to share that opinion.

I agree about those irritating parents who think everyone else is as infatuated with their dc as they are. Gets right on my nerves. Followed closely by those who think the depth of their relationship is 'special'. We all feel like that, you numpty.

Not the most beautiful, but to me they are utterly gorgeous.

I can still remember my mother telling me I was lovely

The friend who took her 'gorgeous' DD to a modelling agency only to be rejected was fairly quiet about the whole beauty thing afterwards...

........and beautiful while I was being bullied at Primary school. Ah!

No.

Baby Goo is beautiful is a certain way, its her aura or something. She's not astonishingly cute to take a photo of, there are plenty of better looking babies. She's still my favourite though :)

I would say that DS is objectively handsome. His dad's nose and ears are in the post.

To me, ds is the most gorgeous two year old to ever walk the planet.

I would never expect anyone (apart from his father) to feel the same way though.

I'm truly deluded balanced & reasoned; DD is drop dead gorgeous

I expect most people to agree with me hefts large brick & why wouldn't they?

I don't think anyone really does blindly believe their OK-looking child is more beautiful than any other. We as parents just don't like to admit our children are anything but perfection because really it's like saying "Look how our ugliness multiplied when it was combined."

Having said that, my mum is a real pain for being unable to admit I have some quite unappealing features. I'd love to know how I came to have a pretty obvious deformity (something a couple of doctors have asked me about, could have been caused at birth but could simply be one of those unfortunate things), but she swears she can't see what I'm going on about. She simply refuses to admit I'm not perfect, which is very silly and annoying.

i think she's really cute, but i know she's not beautiful.

Mine is actually very beautiful. I mean, maybe not the most beautiful, but genuinely in the top 10%.

I can see his flaws, but ds is beautiful because his smile makes my heart sing. How can any objective measure of cuteness compare to that?

Yep, my DD is.

even if she does look like her physically large headed great grandad

My dad was discussing with his neighbour that all babies are born cute, he told me it was on the tip of his tongue to say "Yes, but mines is the cutest!" (meaning his precious-first-grandson). I have to second his opinion but I wouldn't expect anyone, other than my baby's seriously deluded relatives to admit agree to it!

I do think all parents think their children are the very most attractive. I remember describing my son as 'perfect' when he was born but looking back at pictures, he was a little bit squishy then but certainly perfect now.

Nah. Not beautiful. But definately gorgeous!!
I've never had blinkered vision. I know what my kids looked like at birth, and it was certainly not beautiful!

At my wedding, one of the guests said 'it's no surprise that XXX (daughter) is so beautiful; look at how attractive myself and her dad are'.

I kid you not her DD is still bald at 3 and not classically beautiful i understand that to her she is beautiful, but to expect everyone else to???

no, I think he is absolutely beautiful! and of course he is MY favourite child to look at.. and I think that because he smiles and is engaging that most people find him pleasant to look at, but I don't think he's MOST beautiful by general standards.

And he goes through phases like every child does, sometimes he's a bit gawpy or grumpy/stroppy or covered in snot or excema spots

I do know one woman who genuinely belives that her child is the most beautiful to EVERYONE, not helped by the fact that she got her a couple of baby modelling jobs a few years ago. I think the child looks miserable/whingey and is quite an annoying "princess" type, definitely not the cutest little girl I know but this mother actually gets the hump if anyone else's daughter is complimented for nice hair/being cute etc on front of her!

I think my DD is beautiful and is going to be stunningly so when she is grown up.

However people always remark that she is the image of me, and I, sadly, have a face that would frighten a baby. She is better looking than pictures of me at the same age though, so hopefully she will look like much much prettier version of me.

Does anyone remember a programme a while back where they took families with bad eating habits and used computer technology to age the children's images to show what they would look like when they grew up if their lifestyle was not changed? The parents were always devastated at seeing their kids depicted as fat, greasy looking 40 year olds, but here's the thing: the images looked exactly like the parents themselves! It was like the elephant in the room and I wondered if anyone actually ever had the courage to say to them: "errm, well that's what you look like, love."

my mum kept banging on about me getting "spotted" by a modelling scout one day though even I knew that while I could scrub up nicely at times, I was short, had wirey hair and my face is very asymetrical and not model/film star beautiful

she even got a dodgy model rep round to take pics who agreed to put me "on the books" for a hefty fee! my dad had to step in and point out that it was a scam, and that real agencies don't charge upfront like that, plus my test photos were awful and I was in an awkward greasey early teens stage and no genuine rep would have bothered even getting to the stage of taking the pics (he wasn't being unkind.. it was all driven by my mother who was convinced I was model beautiful)

DD1 had a fight with a wardrobe door and ended up with quite a large cut through one eye brow which needed to be glued. Luckily it has healed neatly but it will always be there now.

DH admitted that when they were gluing it, he did think, well there goes her modelling career.

Made me laugh as it's not a career either of us would choose for her.

Everybody sees a 'ready brek' glow around there own children. It's called love.