Can kids tell if their parents are attractive?

[Anonymous]

My parents were voted most handsome and most beautiful when they were in high school. They were King and Queen as well. My siblings and I thought this was hysterical and gave it zero thought in terms of truth. Then in 3rd grade there was a Father/Daughter dinner. I was shy and didn't have many friends and all the girls talked about how handsome my dad was. My only surprise was that all the girls were talking to me. As an adult I can see it now, and they are still a very attractive couple.

[Anonymous]

Of course. In studies kids think more attractive people are smarter, more trustworthy, etc. Humans can tell from early on who is attractive. Why would your children be different?

[Anonymous]

When I was young, my mom had a denim jumper (like a maxi dress) with embroidered white flowers that she wore only rarely in the summer with her hair in a French braid. She only wore black, all the time, because it was “slimming”. But I thought she was so, so beautiful in that blue jumper. She has always been overweight and never liked pictures of herself. Now, as an adult, I understand she was self-conscious about her weight, but I also think my experience of her beauty was very real and pure because I was young.

[Anonymous]

I knew my overweight mom with a man’s haircut who wore combat boots wasn’t attractive to men in general and I wondered if she was attractive to my dad.

[Anonymous]

No, I am in the camp that atleast as far as I remember. I could not rate any of the adults around me on attractiveness as a kid. I remember people telling me so and so is a bombshell and thinking she looked like everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom always had an usually large amount of facial hair. It’s been there as long as I can remember. It was embarrassing as a kid, and as an adult, it’s still unsightly.

Same with my mom. I get it too, and I pluck weekly.

Dermaplane. Dont pluck.

[Anonymous]

As a kid I thought any mom with long hair was beautiful because all the moms had that Princess Di haircut at that time which doesn't look good on anyone. (Early 90s)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids know I’m attractive because all their friends give them a hard time about me being a MILF. They are teenagers.

Did you revive this just to tell everyone about how you are a MILF? I’m trying to figure out what Google search would have caused you to stumble across this. “Do my kids know I’m a MILF?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was young, my mom had a denim jumper (like a maxi dress) with embroidered white flowers that she wore only rarely in the summer with her hair in a French braid. She only wore black, all the time, because it was “slimming”. But I thought she was so, so beautiful in that blue jumper. She has always been overweight and never liked pictures of herself. Now, as an adult, I understand she was self-conscious about her weight, but I also think my experience of her beauty was very real and pure because I was young.

This post is so sweet it literally made me smile. My daughter tells me I’m beautiful all the time (I’m not) but I like to think that she believes it right now so I have been trying to learn to graciously accept her compliments.

[Anonymous]

I remember being very embarrassed in kindergarten when my babysitter picked me up from school and the other kids thought she was my mom. The babysitter was very fat. She had one baby and watched me in the afternoons until my parents were out of work, so I don’t think she was much younger than them. But her obesity was a big deal to me, I didn’t want anyone to think I had a fat mom.

Looking back now, I’m sort of shocked that was so important to me at such a young age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids know I’m attractive because all their friends give them a hard time about me being a MILF. They are teenagers.

Did you revive this just to tell everyone about how you are a MILF? I’m trying to figure out what Google search would have caused you to stumble across this. “Do my kids know I’m a MILF?”

Oh my gosh that's funny. No, I didn't revive it. Someone else did, and their comment was super awful and inappropriate and I reported it. I didn't realize it was a troll reviving a thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was young, my mom had a denim jumper (like a maxi dress) with embroidered white flowers that she wore only rarely in the summer with her hair in a French braid. She only wore black, all the time, because it was “slimming”. But I thought she was so, so beautiful in that blue jumper. She has always been overweight and never liked pictures of herself. Now, as an adult, I understand she was self-conscious about her weight, but I also think my experience of her beauty was very real and pure because I was young.

This post is so sweet it literally made me smile. My daughter tells me I’m beautiful all the time (I’m not) but I like to think that she believes it right now so I have been trying to learn to graciously accept her compliments.

Believe her! Children can’t lie very well about “sensitive” matters like looks or age, because they haven’t learned diplomacy yet. But by the same token, their judgment about beauty is still pure in a way, because it is untouched by years of nonstop magazine/Instagram/movie bodies.