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?

Wow Geordie :o fantastic. I'm going to tell him I met him when he dribbled

Aww thank you chased :) I am going to look at profile whn I am not meant to be working less busy

My dd is very, very beautiful. Lots of people have told me, including complete strangers. She doesn't want to be beautiful though, she wants to be cool.

But some beautiful babies are plain toddlers, and some gorgeous toddlers make goblin children, and plain children often grow into
Stunners- everyone has an age when they are in the top 10 I reckon.

I think that my DD is beautiful and lovely, especially to me.
But I do appreciate other children too and realise that they are beautiful too.

I think everyone will also think there own children and close famiy/friends are adorable on the whole. To think that they are the MOST adorable in the world to everyone would be daft surely?

I agree Talkingnonsense.

Beautiful babies can become plain children, and plain children can blossom into beautiful adults. You can never be too sure what you're going to get!

Stealth - DD's photo from the hospital photographers was horrid. It didn't look anything like DD at all. Luckily my dad took some snapshots when he visited us at the hospital and she looks gorgeous in them!

Of course my dd is the most beautiful child on the planet, she takes after her mother!

I think DD is a pretty little thing, but not as beautiful as other people tell me she is. But I think yhat's because they also say she looks like me, and I don't think I'm attractive at all. But she's an amazing little person. Beautiful inside and a total joy, despite the tantrums!

When my elder dd was a baby, she was really big and bonny with blond curls, big blue eyes and a round face. She was always getting compliments. In comparison friend's baby was a shocker - really red, long head, big ears, skinny, everything about him was wrong. I felt so sorry for her/him at the time and couldn't understand why she thought he was so gorgeous. I didn't even want to hold him, he gave me the creeps (isn't that awful?)

Fast forward twelve years and he's a really beautiful boy. My dd is also pretty lovely ;) But you can't tell how they will grow up. My granny had a phrase - pretty in the cradle, ugly at the table that she used to reassure me with when I compared myself with my best friend at primary school who was all dimples and long eyelashes. Sure enough, I ended up rather attractive and she ended up a plain lump (I know that sounds awful but you already know I'm not a nice person by the way I described my friend's baby).

to further complicate things, how cute I think a child is is directly proportionate to how nice I think their parents are. I also always thinks the ones that my DS bonds best with are amongst the cutests.. because they like my DS

I'm the same with adults though, I can't separate visual beauty from personality! I just can't see someone nasty as physically beautiful!

I have popped up three recent pics of my lot on my profile. As you will see, they are all lovely, but none of them will cause wildlife to launch into a musical number.

they are lovely pictish

I think my two boys are beautiful - but I am quite aware that outside of my family, people don't feel the same way.

DS1 has a head of shiny brown-y blondey curls and dimples, and big eyes with long eyelashes and a massive smile. Constantly has compliments on his hair, which is truly his crowning glory!

DS2 looks like DS1, but fairer and his hair is a lot more flyaway and not quite as curly.

When they are together they get a lot of compliments, but it's not their looks that truly get me all misty eyed - it's the combination of personality and what they look like. They just shine and are real comedians - therefore they are truly beautiful and much more beautiful than any else's babies obviously

Thank you! I am trying to look at other poster's wee beauties too, so if anyone feels like sharing their darlings with us all, I'll take a keek!

DSD was a very beautiful little girl. All cascading blonde curls and blue eyes. She is a fairly average young woman now, ethereal but not the beauty she was in childhood.
DSS however is like a classical statue; tall, blonde, chiseled, muscular. Truly stunning. He retained the beauty he had as a child.
DD is what I would describe as gamine, elfin. People comment on how lovely she is and she is v striking; sharp features, big smile honey blonde hair, really slim. I would say she is a model type because she is like a blank canvass but in not a classical beauty by English standards.

''Pretty in the cradle - ugly at the table'' :)
Cute kids don't always equal cute adults, often the opposite. Remember when everyone used to fancy Prince William? No one would look twice at him now!

Ahhh looking at the smiling children is making me very happy, and a bit broody - chasing your dd is gorgeous, and we have a similar "tiny, wrapped in blanket" picture. This is not good when I am not home and my dc are :( need a cuddle

I've never thought my dc were the most beautiful. dd1 was a funny looking kid, fortunately now much improved. dd2 was the cutest toddler ever, now going off the boil a bit

dp, on the other hand, is absolutely convinced that our children are the most gorgeous children ever born. Ever.

My sis was heard to say after the birth of her second DS, well, he's not as cute as xxx (first child) was... I'm sure they thought he was gorgeious in his own way, but Sis and BIL knew he wasn't classically beautiful. He's a lot cuter now he's older.

DS is always complimented on his blue eyes, which go with long and dark eyelashes.

But his most beautiful smile is always to me, so I'm sure I see some beauty that other people may miss.
Particularly when he doesn't give them any attention.

But I thought he looked like ET when he was born.

It has got better, BTW. :)

I'm the opposite,i think I'm a harsh critic of my dc, not to them obviously.

Eldest dd is not conventionally pretty but I've been told lots of times she is really beautiful but I would say in a quirky, model sense. Huge eyes, incredibly pale and very, very skinny. Someone stopped her the other day and told me she looked like an Olsen twin. She is definitely growing into her looks, she is only 7.

When I look at her I see, messy hair, mucky nails, falling down socks and a strong look of MIL. She is lovely and really sweet and kind.

Ds, I think is handsome but then he's my only ds and when he was born I looked at him at fell in love straight away, I would never say he was the most beautiful child though and boys change so much as teens I'm not are what he'll be like.

Poor baby dd, the most beautiful eyes and the biggest, fattest cheeks she's an odd looking little thing, hopefully she'll grow into her looks too because at the moment she looks like Churchill

So many ugly babies on Facebook. Wouldn't mind if they were cute. Love is blind with my friends maybe.

Pictishyour babies are lovely!