Cute kid Vs (?) kid. Review on Parents

I published this article on my blog at https://ambatigan.blogspot.com and got tremendous response...And now I'm posting it here for mouthshut readers...

A researcher at the University of Alberta has shown that parents are more likely to give better care and pay closer attention to good-looking children compared to unattractive ones. Dr. Andrew Harrell presented his findings recently at the Warren E. Kalbach Population Conference in Edmonton, Alberta.

Harrell's findings are based on an observational study of children and shopping cart safety. With the approval of management at 14 different supermarkets, Harrell's team of researchers observed parents and their two to five-year-old children for 10 minutes each, noting if the child was buckled into the grocery-cart seat, and how often the child wandered more than 10 feet away. The researchers independently graded each child on a scale of one to 10 on attractiveness.

Findings showed that 1.2 per cent of the least attractive children were buckled in, compared with 13.3 per cent of the most attractive youngsters. The observers also noticed the less attractive children were allowed to wander further away and more often from their parents. In total, there were 426 observations at the 14 supermarkets.

For my part,whenever we took Aarush to the grocery store when he was younger, and even now(two and half yrs old), we tend to keep him pretty close to us, although in my case was less an issue of overprotectiveness than a desire not to annoy fellow shoppers with a kid running all over the store, grabbing stuff off the shelves and saying I want I want I want I want as an incessant mantra.

Now that I think about it, I seem to remember my mother letting me wander off wildly whenever we went shopping when I was a kid. Hmmmm.

Are parents more protective of cute kids? One of my friends arised this question,last night. I don't think so.My point is about the less attractive child . No matter how ugly you may be to others ,to your parents you are the most beautiful child in the world . Ugly is as ugly does. If they act ugly no matter how pretty they are they are ugly when they act ugly.

I'm dying to know your thoughts...