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[quote=Anonymous]Well OP there are three options.

1) Create a high pressure situation where your kid feels the need to be popular to please you so will go to great lengths to conform themselves into the mold of popular and will be somewhat ruthless to get there. Live vicariously through them and make sure they know your happiness depends on them. This is the "Regina George" method of popular child building. This will for sure eff up your kid and has the potential of swinging the totally opposite way though and getting a Janet because they are rebelling against your expectations.

2) Accept that your kid will or will not be extroverted and therefore will or will not be popular. Support their interests, be compassionate about their problems and be a person they trust and can depend on regardless of their social status. Help them pursue the life they want. If that includes being popular you can get them good skincare/clothes/whatever but make sure they appreciate themselves. Essentially, be someone who loves them no matter what, so being popular is less important. And teach them young how to make good and true friends for the same reason.

3) The hybrid method. You can not try to direct them but help them get somewhat of an edge by I dunno, paying for a bunch of friends to go to concerts or sporting events all the time, bring a group of kids on an annual ski trip and therefore ensure your kid is a 'desireable' friend to have because they come with perks. Make sure they have super awesome clothes and go on super awesome vacations and help them take super awesome instagram photos. Don't take this too far and be the parent that lets keggers happen in their basement though, because that effs kids up. [/quote]

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