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So, kids are tattle tales? Did we need a study to tell us this?

• the_only_law 5y ago
  Eventually we would see a [citation needed] below the claim.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > So, kids are tattle tales? No, tattle tales report rule breaking to third-party authorities. This is about direct intervention with the rule-breaker. > Did we need a study to tell us this? If we want to quantify and see how it varies across, say, the urban/rural divide (as this does with challenging), then, yes, certainly, but it's not this study.
  • aidenn0 5y ago
    In my experience kids are tattle tales when they have had their power to intervene directly significantly curtailed. I remember a kid asking me to tell my daughter to stop doing some behavior (she was a few years younger than him). I asked him if he had already asked her to stop and he looked at me like I was from mars. At least where I live, many kids have been taught in many ways that direct intervention is something that will get them in trouble, and tattle-tales are at least partly a result of that. This is also IMO why girls are more likely to tattle-tale. Girls, on average, get in way more trouble for instigating physical violence than boys, so they have had one method of direct intervention more strongly curtailed.