It pays to be pretty, starting in high school, research says

[JDPriestly]

19. It is a matter of self-confidence.

At one point, I taught a junior-high Sunday school class. I noticed that the children from more affluent families, the ones who attended private schools and traveled with their grandparents, etc. were a lot more confident about themselves than those who did not enjoy those advantages.

Note to parents. Require your children to perform well and then give them credit for what they achieve.

You would be surprised at the parents who, from the get-go, do nothing but impose their own lack of self-esteem on their children.

Nothing other than crimes or cheating or taking from others or hating, nothing, not race, not money, nothing makes one person more beautiful or worth more than another. We all have talents and inner beauty no matter what. We need to explain that to our children. It would do more to rid our schools of bullies than anything else.