Every parent wants to know the secret to school happiness: why is one kid well liked while another gets picked on? There’s no recipe for social success among first graders. But a new study published this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry reveals some intriguing clues about why certain children land in the dreaded world of what science calls “peer victimization.” One key finding: they’re more likely to be aggressive early on in life. It’s not surprising to experts in the field, who have known for some time that there’s a link between being aggressive and being tormented, which can lead to a host of emotional and social problems. When unstable and angry children act out on their frustrations—smashing a toy after someone takes their ball away—they aren’t exactly beloved by their peers. “They’re easy marks,” says Kenneth Dodge, a psychology professor at Duke University. “You know you can get a rise out of them, you can push their buttons.”
Kids who take their wrath out on other kids, as the children did in the study, are also at risk. Their classmates don’t like them—and some will eventually make their displeasure known. Prior research has focused largely on school-age kids, around age 4 or 5, and the studies have been relatively small. The new study, which followed 1,970 children in Canada, traces behavior all the way back to toddlerhood. Mothers of 17-month-old children were asked how often their kids hit, bit or kicked other children and how often they fought or bullied their peers. Later, when the kids were between the ages of 3 and 6, the moms reported on how often their kids were made fun of, how often they were hit or pushed and how often they were called names. Their answers showed a link: kids who were aggressive early on in life were more likely to be victimized than non-aggressive kids. The message is that those negative events do happen in preschool and we can predict them from very early on.
This seems very interesting to me. I think a kid will act upon how it is raised. If a child has abusive behavior it’s probably because the parents taught it to be that way. I don’t think a child is just born with aggressive behavior. If a child is picked on in school it’s probably because they were babied when they were younger and want to be nice to everyone. I think once you get into high school the different moods between children will just clash. I will probably be different for every student.
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I think it is very interesting. How kids act upon how they were raised. Such as my cousins kid told his grandma that when he grows up he’s going to smoke just like his mom does. I think that it really depends on many different factors as to how they are raised.
I believe that the way a person acts depends on many factors including by who and how they were raised, the friends that they hang around, and the condition in which they were born( mental illness that may cause aggressive behavior). Although we do pick up most things from our parents( they are who we are with most of the times we are kids), we pick up a lot of things from our peers as well.