[tpeo]

Kids do judge, that's the point of bullying. They don't care about whether they might act inappropriately in a adult sense, but they still care about what others think of them.

The real difference, I'd say, is that kids are very easily bored. They get majorly annoyed if they don't have anything to do for more than three minutes, so they leave no time for awkwardness: they'll either pester everyone around them for attention until they either get a playmate or just get tired and start playing alone.

Plus, pretty much all kids know how to play pretend, so it doesn't take much for them to be playmates. Or at least it didn't take much in the far distant past of 2001.

[hashmp]

I agree, but when I say kids I was thinking more of young kids. Say up until 7 or 8. You don't tend to see much bullying at that age, maybe teasing a bit but they don't seem to be nasty in the way older kids can be when they bully other kids ( like an on going campaign to isolate and intimidate a person).

This is my experience anyhow.