Once every five minutes. Study finds surprising amount of bullying at younger ages
Spend time on any school playground during recess, and you will probably see what Jim Snyder's research has proven:
It's a jungle out there.
Amid the laughter and play, there is teasing, name-calling, poking, pushing and shoving. And it happens more frequently than you might think.
Snyder, a psychology professor at Wichita (Kan.) State University, reports that children were targets of verbal or physical harassment about once every five minutes, based on observations of 266 kindergartners at a Wichita school playground.
His research, conducted over two years and published in the journal Child Development, raises new concerns about bully behavior and its effect on even very young students. …
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