I'm not surprised about how many children the new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2016) report estimates is affected by bullying. Between 18% and 31% of children are considered to experience genuine bullying, whether it was verbal, mental or physical. Today's bullies do anything from pushing someone's head in the toilet and flushing (yes, this was a story a real-life kid told me) to sending mean texts (i.e. cyberbullying) for usually being different, which we all are.