Are all babies this cute?

[Anonymous]

My advice would be to let it go. This is an anonymous board but chances are you have had a few discussion with friends or family about all the compliments your baby gets. My SIL could have written your post and has had these discussions with us. To be polite, everyone says of course your baby is beautiful but we are all sitting around thinking she is a big, obnoxious fool. Sorry, but I thought the same thing about the OP when reading her post.

We all gets tons of baby compliments. Its tacky to take these seriously and get so into your children's appearances. You'll start to give the impression you are shallow, don't care about about intelligence or personality and things that matter.

[Anonymous]

If my baby had the classic baby good looks, I'd be up for a couple photo shoots for respectable companies like BabyGap. Why shouldn't DD contrbute to the diaper fund (ha! ha! I am only joking!). I would obviously be present and if things get crazy, I would grab baby and leave. I seriously doubt that doing something like this would lead my kid down the road of self-destruction and I think the reasons this happens is because the parents get caught up in the fame, money and use this as a sense of validation for themselves.

But, alas, no one is banging down our door requesting DDs services. I would never enter her in any online BabyGap, Parenting magazine baby of the month contests because I would feel bad if she doesn't win. No one wants their baby to be rejected! I would definitely draw the line at beauty pageants-that is not my style and I think harmful.

[Anonymous]

it gets funny when one of your children is exceptionally gorgeous and the other one is cute but kind of regular looking. My son is gorgeous, mixed with curly light brown/reddish hair, huge blue eyes, long eyelashes and beautiful lips. So we get stares and comments all the time. but then they look at my daughter who is cute but not outstandingly beautiful and they will not say anything.

I really hope this doesn't carry on into their time as teens, I am sure my daughter would be devastated.

[Anonymous]

My child was asked to do a model shoot for a local clothing store when she was about 18 months old. We didn't get paid, but we got all the photos on disc - taken by an incredible professional photographer.

It was tons of fun and I love the photos. It was also fun to see my child's face on print materials and the web.

I think that most real child modeling around here takes place in NY. You would have to get an agent and then be available to go to NY for casting calls, which isn't very easy/convenient. But I don't see anything wrong with it. Can't hurt to try. I never pursued it myself, but if someone stopped me on the street and offered to put my child in an ad, I would definitely do it. Why not, especially if you get to keep the photos!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my baby had the classic baby good looks, I'd be up for a couple photo shoots for respectable companies like BabyGap. Why shouldn't DD contrbute to the diaper fund (ha! ha! I am only joking!). I would obviously be present and if things get crazy, I would grab baby and leave. I seriously doubt that doing something like this would lead my kid down the road of self-destruction and I think the reasons this happens is because the parents get caught up in the fame, money and use this as a sense of validation for themselves.

But, alas, no one is banging down our door requesting DDs services. I would never enter her in any online BabyGap, Parenting magazine baby of the month contests because I would feel bad if she doesn't win. No one wants their baby to be rejected! I would definitely draw the line at beauty pageants-that is not my style and I think harmful.

I agree. It would be fun to do it for a big place.

And of course beauty pageants are different - yuck! Can't even imagine that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it gets funny when one of your children is exceptionally gorgeous and the other one is cute but kind of regular looking. My son is gorgeous, mixed with curly light brown/reddish hair, huge blue eyes, long eyelashes and beautiful lips. So we get stares and comments all the time. but then they look at my daughter who is cute but not outstandingly beautiful and they will not say anything.

I really hope this doesn't carry on into their time as teens, I am sure my daughter would be devastated.

Yes! I'm afraid it may be even worse for us because we have two girls.