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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely from very early on.  I've observed this each time with my 4 kids.  Kids want to be around good looking kids (not talking about my own but watching the social dynamics). [/quote]

[b]And adults react differently to kids based on their looks, and subconsciously change their interactions with them.[/b] My DD had some very conventionally attractive children in her preschool class at a pk3-8th grade class and their popularity in HS had a linear relationship with how the teacher greeted them every morning in the hallway in 3s preschool. It is fascinating and awful all at once.

It makes a difference in the early grades even if I wish it didn’t. That early attention can create confidence and generate social approval that in turn creates popularity. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle.[/quote]

I remember when I was about 14 my mother and I were in a bowling alley. There were 3 kids there -- a really beautiful little girl, and two relatively unattractive siblings, a boy and a girl. All of them were about the same age, and all were raising hell and getting in the way throughout the entire place. My mother noticed that everyone was fawning over the beautiful girl and going on about how cute and wonderful she was, and yet getting really angry and huffy about the other two children's behavior -- even though the behavior was the same with all 3. She pointed this out to me. I've never forgotten it. Not sure what to do with it, but I have never forgotten it. [/quote]

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