Do you ever look back at toddler pics of your kids and think, “wow, they really weren’t that cute”?
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Anonymous
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When mine were babies, I got stopped on the street they were so cute. Now they are such awkward teens. Same sweet, kind people underneath it all.
But, yeah, they were adorable. |
Anonymous
+1. My Dad thought my DD looked like Winston Churchill. |
Anonymous
| My baby was really really fat (always 99% on growth chart) and when I look back I am shocked at how fat. Not cut or uncut but just fat fat fat. |
Anonymous
| I think the vast majority of babies/toddlers are beautiful, adorable. Maybe I’m just a baby/toddler person! |
Anonymous
I think so too! Toddlers are so cute, and it may not come through on a photo, but their smiles are infectious. I love they are constantly busy exploring everything. |
Anonymous
| People always tell me my baby is cute but I wonder if that is just nice talk. I think he is gorgeous but my husband tells me I have mom eyes? Maybe we all have mom eyes but too many random people tell me he is cute! |
Anonymous
| This is funny, and timely. I was googly-eyed over my first. He was cute, but not the stunner that I thought he was. I look back at old pictures and remember the feelings of thinking my baby was the most beautiful on Earth. He’s still cute at 12. |
Anonymous
What else are they going to say? We should all aim for feeling like our children are special and wonderful, while also understanding that the world doesn't see them in the same way. If you have the first part, but lack the self-awareness for the 2nd part, you can become an insufferable parent. |
Anonymous
| No, it's the opposite. I realize that my kiddo could have been in catalogs and commercials. I thought they were cute then but looking back, the kid is really photgenic too. Still is actually. |
Anonymous
I definitely think my kids are the absolute most adorable children to exist in the world... until I look at the pictures a couple of years later and realize they just look like ordinary kids. 
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Anonymous
| “Cute” = I have nothing nicer to say about your kid. It isn’t a real compliment. |
Anonymous
One of my daughters was the opposite - very, very skinny (like 3rd percentile) and when I look back at pictures, I am shocked by how unhealthy she looked. I didn't see it, I'm sure others did and I wish they'd pushed me to feed her some formula or something. Thankfully she has put on weight over the years (she is 10 now) and is still slim, but in an athletic way. |
Anonymous
Almost all babies are cute. That doesn't mean they're gorgeous. |
Anonymous
Me too. My baby could have been a model back then. DC is almost 4 now and that cute baby look is really going away with these growth spurts. Should have had college funded with baby catalog modeling money 
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