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?

Dd was really an unattractive newborn...and I know a lot are...but she was quite monsterous. Dh and I cooed with declarations of beauty when the boys were born, but with dd her ugliness hung there silent, unremarked upon. Dh said 'she looks very cross' I think.
She stayed a proper gargoyle for about 2 months, when somehow this pretty little face emerged.
Flame me, but I was relieved.

My DS gets a lot of compliments about the colour of his hair, and he also has the most amazing cheeky smile. I think he's gorgeous and tell him so frequently (I've always had appalling self-esteem and I worry that he'll be bullied because of his red hair). Maybe he's not the most gorgeous child in the world, but he's definitely in the Top 5!

DH's great aunty Rita says "there's only one beautiful baby - and every Mother's got it!"

Everyone says how cute DD is though

just to show that love and affection can really transform the way you see - when I used to take my class on school trips I was always amazed at how much better looking MY class were than any other class there

Really Humphrey?!
That's so funny!

DD1 is a conventionally pretty little girl, wouldn't say stunning but pretty

DD2 wasn't a pretty baby,when she smiles she's gorgeous, when she grumpy she's plain ugly, suits her personality.

DD3 is very pretty and she knows it, she's the child everyone just loves. She's a complete madam though.

DS is gorgeous, he has his own fan club in the supermarket, the checkout ladies coo over him all the time, strangers stop me in the street to talk to him, he's only two and has gorgeous big brown eyes and the longest eyelashes ever which he flutters at all the old dears, he's a complete flirt, I've had old dear shout across a shop "Edna come and look at this wee boy, look at his eyes!". All the while he's sitting in his pram like an angel smiling at them, hes utterly wild though.

I do think every mother thinks they're children are beautiful.

Yes, and no.

Yes, I think so, though I am a little biased....

But sometimes I am also struck by how people's children are beautiful, either on the outside or their personality/character.

Sometimes, perhaps because we see our children everyday, we don't always actually see it ...

I do. I know in my logical mind that they are ordinary, but to my eyes they are a feast!

Thanks Fox x

This thread is a bit like the written equivalent of a beauty pageant

Ha, so true. Perhaps we need a judging panel and a scoring system

I think it just answers the OP.
Yes, every mother does find their child attractive. I think it's innate. Do we think our child is the most beautiful. No. We are not mad.

Remember when everyone used to fancy Prince William? No one would look twice at him now!

Lol, how true!! He managed to punch way above his weight in the wife stakes though, amazing what being heir to the throne does for one's pulling power.

Ds is a gorgeous baby and gets a ton of affection but also is the spit of his dad who I love dearly but is frankly not going to win any beauty contests so I suspect he won't grow up to be quite as booful as he is now. I have very symmetrical features and big eyes etc and am told im easy on the eye so maybe the combination just works and its my bone structure and DPs features . One thing for sure the poor bugger is doomed to thick glasses until he is old enough for contacts. Were both as blind as bats

Not sure anyone other than me would say DS was beautiful, but his sheer joie de verve is hard to deny. He literally hums with enthusiasm.

Ask DM though and she'd kill anyone immediately dead if they denied his imediate entry to god-like beauty legend books.

Hmmm
Well I have 5dc and I can see some are more conventionally beautiful than others. But then again, they are all so beautiful to me in different ways I find it impossible to compare them.
DS was a beautiful child and he still has beautiful features but is currently a lanky skinny teenager with spots . I can see he will be absolutely gorgeous when he fills out a bit but let's face it, 16 year old boys are all a bit funny looking!
Dd2 is model pretty in a Kate Moss straggly hair, skinny and tall sort of way. She is very photogenic. But she isn't classically beautiful.

Meh, who knows. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. My squishy 16 month old is the most perfect baby with the most squishy legs :)

I agree with a pp who said all children are nice to look at, they just are.

Yes of course, because they usually look like you

My dd is particularly stunning and the image of me

Plenty of pics on my profile to prove just how gorgeous they are!

My DD genuinely is gorgeous. I remember sitting up in bed looking around the maternity ward thinking "I got the good one". Somebody had to.

Mind you, recently I saw photos of her as a newborn and I don't know how I missed the fact that she had a Neanderthal brow. And her father's nose. Luckily her face has grown so now it's in proportion.

I had people/strangers/relatives ask and say why the hell i haven't registered dd1 with a child modelling agency as she is utterly beautiful. she is 7. This annoys me as they don't remember to say the same about dd2 who is 5(and feels excluded) but also very good looking in my eyes. I hate what this does to dd1...

My 2 DDs are beautiful to look at but are also growing up into beautiful people. They are so nice to others, kind, caring and friendly. I am so proud of them.

My DS's are genuinely very handsome. DH and I wonder where they came from

Ever since my DD was a baby, I often get people stopping me in supermarkets and parks to tell me how beautiful my DD is and how she should be a child model.

Tbh I find it all EXCRUCIATINGLY embarrassing. Especially if I am with someone else and their little ones. I remember being in a coffee shop when she was about 22 months. A whole gaggle of Japanese students started cooing over her, touching her and taking pics. I hated it.

Photographers coming over to take pictures at Zoos and museums happens a lot and makes me uncomfortable. They are always complimentary but I find it invasive and rude. Only the other day I was told she was very photogenic when she was feeding some birds in a wildlife park.

Of course I think she is lovely but then so are most children, right? Virtually all the kids I know are sweet, cute, gorgeous in some way or another. It's youth and exuberance shining out from their faces. I don't think you have to be even featured or have a particular hair colour. Kids are just gorgeous, full stop.

I have no idea where my dd got her looks from, or whether they will last!
At the moment I know she is my lovely girl and if other people 'disagree', well we all have our opinions and that's ok.

Ok - some of us are a little mad.