[mtbopfuyn]

Or perhaps it's general lack of parental involvement in the child's life that causes him to seek attention by bullying.

[Spirited]

What they watch is what they reproduce.

Bullying can be readily traced to what was put on. We didn't used to have the violence we see today on the tube.
We didn't have the degree of bullying, either.

[spanalot]

Nah - the have it all wrong

Kids that drink milk are more likely to bully.

Seriously, what does this statistic mean - all kids watch tv

[webheart]

My older brother was a bully, and he definitely watched more TV than me, but the bully came first, and the more TV came from he had the power of bullying to control access to the television machine. So empirical evidence leads me to believe this article is a load of crap.

[RaceBannon]

so, what caused bullying 100 years ago?

[Mike Darancette]

Big Bird, Elmo and the Teletubbies makes em mean.

[FierceDraka]

Yet another report of pseudo-scientific BS designed to keep the grant money flowing to the lab-coat-wearing charlatans and snake oil salesmen.

"Move along, people, nothing to see here."

[Sonny M]

Is this article suggesting that children should not follow the "laws of the playground"?

Such as.

1)Always make fun of people who are different from you.

2)Never rat out to the teachers,

etc.

[longtermmemmory]

I get the distict impression that "bully" is just a euphamism for "act like a boy". When they can not drug little boys as mentally sick, they will then label as bullies.