Is it possible for a parent to believe their child is not beautiful ?

If they thought that their children are unattractive, they wouldn’t have posted the photos. People only post things that look good to them.

Beauty is so subjective that it’s impossible to answer this. Most people fall short of popular beauty standards, but that doesn’t mean that their loved ones are insincere when they say they think they’re beautiful. In the same breath, some of parents are also generally horrible people who can find fault in even the most lovely children.

Well, there’s always the first few lines from this song by The Shins.

Some of the purported lyrics really aren’t, but at least these opening lines seem true to the writer’s intent, anyway. Whatever that might have been.

Of course.
I, for one, do think you are all ugly.

When my daughter was born I thought she was so beautiful. Looking at the photos she was crumpled, red and spotty. Rose tinted spectacles are a parent’s prerogative

To answer your question. Probably. Most of your realist probably know if their child is beautiful or not. But I will say that when I worked in daycare, I knew some unattractive children that were sweet as sugar. I looked forward to seeing their face everyday. Next to some of the more attractive children, I saw more than their physical looks. Their hugs were just as sweet as any pretty child. Their laughter made my days as any other pretty child. With time I would find them to be just as beautiful as the other children. Sometimes even prettier. And I couldn’t remember what flaw did I find with their face that didn’t match up to my idea of pretty. It was possible that some just got prettier, and some of the pretty ones started to look awkward. But the ones with beautiful souls were untouchable by age. And I would see them in photos that their parents would take, and think, that it never quite caught the beauty I saw and just think that the photos were poorly taken.
My point is that even when you think that they may not be perfectly beautiful, what they hope to share in the photos is the love they have for their child. A parents deepest desire is that their child is loved by others as much as they love them.

Both my kids were & are gorgeous
Some kids though, they’re so ugly they must have been fed with a catapult as babies

@Pandora that was beautifully said and I appreciate the thoughts. My first daughter was so blue and cried continually that I couldn’t see anything beautiful about her. Well, now that I think back, she did have a red curl on the back of her head near her neck and still has it. As a mother, I could hear her crying way down the hall in the nursery and I just cried along with her. Other circumstances ensued and it was not a positive experience. I wish I could say things are better now.

With the help of a flood of certain hormonal secretions at and after birth of a child, hormones such as oxytocin and serotonin, parents bond early to their children. I wouldn’t want, or expect them to be objective during these hard years. I hope to hell every parent feels their child is the jewel of the universe. If they don’t—and sometimes this happens—I think it is very tragic.

I hope every parent feels their child is the most beautiful, special thing in the world—for the child’s sake, and their own.

I have heard that it’s an instinct in parents to perceive their children as beautiful, or at least attractive, especially in infancy. It helps ensure the survival of the child.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They’ve done research that shows the more you love a person, the more attractive they appear to be to you. So if you love your baby, I don’t know how you could look at it and not see a beautiful child. Not to mention that beauty (in my opinion) is not just about physical attributes, it’s about a person’s smile, their Joie de vivre. That light that shines out of them because they’re glad to be alive.

I think it’s possible to realize objectively that your child may not be what is commonly excepted as beautiful in society. I don’t have children, but I would guess you see the beauty of the perfection of innocence, of new life. The awe of the little fingers and toes, and the way the baby’s mouth goes up at the corners like your spouse, and the blue eyes like your own, and the hairline like your sister, and so you see all the beauty and perfection there is to see, and whatever else is irrelevant.

I’ve often wondered why parents always add beautiful when introducing their children.

“This is my husband, Bob, and my three beautiful children, Salami, Provolone and Rye Sammich. ”

Why can’t you just say “these are my children”?

my punctuation is terrible. I know

Typo: accepted not excepted.

LOL! Nice @JLeslie!

Writing too fast and not rereading.

Wait…I didn’t realize that was a correction of one of your posts. I thought it was a hilariously witty response to @dammitjanetfromvegas saying “my punctuation is terrible. I know.”
Also, I misread, “excepted” as “expected.”

So, in my mind, what you have is @dammitjanetfromvegas saying “my punctuation is terrible. I know.”
And you say, “Typo: accepted not expected.”
And then I laugh!
So I go with that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. And I’m stickin’ with it.

^^I guess expected could have worked in that sentence. I hadn’t even thought of that.

LOL!