Man lashes out against his wife for calling their daughter ‘gorgeous’

LONDON: A father has divided opinion after scolding a woman for calling his baby daughter “gorgeous.”

Left confused by a bizarre encounter with a stranger, a woman has sought the opinion of fellow parents in a bid to discover if she was in the wrong.

Sharing the incident on parenting website Mumsnet, the woman involved explained how she was standing outside a café with her own nine-month-old baby when she was approached by a man carrying a toddler.

She explained that the man’s daughter wanted to see her baby and so she introduced them before asking how old the child was and greeted her by saying, “Hello lovely, aren’t you gorgeous?”

Despite her good intentions, the woman’s compliment was surprisingly met with a harsh response from the father.

“The man looked me sternly in the eyes and said, ‘oh no, don’t tell her that, language like that ruins them!’” she explained.

“I found this really sad, but maybe I’m in the wrong?”

The mother went on to explain that she works with children and often uses language like this with her friend’s little ones.

“This is the first time I’ve come across this kind of attitude and I must admit I thought he was joking and laughed in his face,” she added. The thread on the parenting advice website has since received hundreds of replies from other users, but while some agreed that the father was overreacting, others insisted that adults should reinforce children’s strengths beyond their looks. AGENCIES