Esthetics: Nothin’ Funny About Funny-Looking

Each human being develops beliefs about who he or she is beginning at birth. We don’t know what awarenesses are experienced in the womb. Each step and each day of the infant’s development is critical to the growth of beliefs about the self. The steps are like building blocks. First love and touch begin development of relationship while creating cognitive and behavioral awareness. Even an infant begins to notice and be attracted to other children, as well as to study others as he becomes aware of himself. Three-month-old babies recognize beautiful faces!¹

It has always amazed me how children are so attracted to other children, particularly children about their own age. Yet, it makes sense as we realize other children give him opportunity to study himself— like a mirror, if you will. Teenagers do not spend so much time looking in a mirror for nothing.