Do you know that in this time, many school children skip school because of bullying and intimidation by the peers? This condition is unbelievable but this is reality that we have to fix together. According to some estimates, 160,000 children skip their school because of bullying. 77% of middle and high school students in small mid-western towns have been bullied; a report from The National Center for Educational Statistic. Actually bullying has been defined in many ways and defined as a specific type of aggression.

The example of bullying are if the behaviors intended to harm or disturb, if behaviors occurs repeatedly overtime and there is imbalance of power, with more powerful person or group attacking a less powerful one. This issue needing immediate focus but it’s often not. Some researches noted that bullying occurs to take place in more in middle of junior high schools that in high schools. Actually we can reduce bullying if teachers provided better supervision of students during free play, recess, the noon hour, or on the school bus.

Many Americans are choosing to have one child in the family. The changing of family patterns and economic concerns has contributing to parents’ choosing the one-child option. Some situations that often makes newly weds choose to have the only child in family is inflation and high unemployment; contributing to reduced family income and may encourage parents to have smaller families.  For your information in 1970, 18% of American families had only children, as compared with 21% in 1981. There is some little difference between the only children with children who have siblings but that will not affect social development of each group of children.

About intelligence; although report finding conflict, only children like first born generally have been found to score slightly higher on measures of intelligence than younger siblings. Such experiences might include, for example, parents’ provision of an “enriched” intellectual environment. But in affiliation, some research indicates that only children may be slightly less affiliation than their peers.

It is normal if your children feel shy for some situation in their childhood. For example: when they were entering new school or new class, when they first time find new friends at new home environment, and so on. The parents must know the background why the child were so shy and have a chit chat with them. If the child can not tell other adults what makes them feel shy perhaps in contrast,

children who exhibit extreme shyness which is neither context-specific nor transient may at some risk. Such children may lack social skills and have poor self-images. Actually shyness is a universal feeling and as long as the person can develop it or trained about social development, they can change their feeling. Shyness-self is felt as a mix of emotions, including fear and interest tension, and pleasantness. An observer recognizes shyness by an averted, downward gaze, and physical and verbal reticence. Usually the shy person’s speech is often too soft, tremulous and hesitant.