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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand how any of you guys can think your kids are not beautiful.  I look at my kids and I know they are absolutely gorgeous.  They bring a smile to my face every day; how could I find that not beautiful?  I'm sure it's not objective (it's not supposed to be), but I thought everyone felt this way about their kids.[/quote]

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Who are these people who think they’re somehow doing their kids a favor by implying or actually stating that they’re not attractive?  I can’t imagine growing up knowing that my own parents didn’t think I was beautiful.  This is a very sad thread.[/quote]

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So when you look around at a crowd, all you see are beautiful people? No one looks average? And average people cannot admit that they look average and be proud of it, because it is heresy to our cultural idolatry of beauty? [/quote]

Not at all.  You have completely missed the point - which is that you tell your kids they are beautiful regardless of what an objective bystander might think.  You let them know from day one that they are beautiful, special, smart, talented, etc.  Because to you, the parent, they are.  And they need to internalize that, because eventually they'll be old enough to realize not all of those things are true.  But they'll know that at least their parents truly believed it.

You seem very, very literal.  To the detriment of your own children's feelings.[/quote]

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