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    Peer Pressure

    Peer pressure in school makes your child to go along with a group or classmates, compromising his beliefs, self-worth, etc.. As a result, it leads to rejection. This is a bad sign. While there is also a positive side to it while going along with a crowd to become more productive with positive thoughts, enabling your child to achieve more in life.

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    Just going along with the crowd would infact lead to having a puppet mentality.. we need to encourage our kids to think on their own and to do wat feels right to them and their conscience.. Peer pressure is something that every individual faces throughout their lives.. that cant mean that they never be encouraged to speak their thoughts..

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    Arushi Sahai's Avatar Member
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    Hi all, peer pressure is the most common issue noticed in the children and teenagers. The most common thing is to let them be and not try to separate them from the peers. It is important for us as parents to lead our children on the right path. Peer pressure has both positive and negative sides. We should help develop the negative side into positive so that our child is more capable and confident and can choose what is right and wrong. Encouraging our kids to do the right things and helping them do their own things properly and also make them believe in their conscience is main thing.

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    Peer pressure is faced by everybody throughout their lives, be it children, teenagers or adults. As parents we can encourage them to speak their thoughts. It is of no use being a mere puppet and having no thoughts of our own. Peer influence takes place in every age and the main reason behind this influence is to be accepted by a group and also be valued by friends. Some do as their peers do because they like it and some do it under pressure. It is not always negative and something done against the will. Usually peer pressure is more in teenagers than children.

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    Hi, I can totally relate to what you are saying in this forum. The peer pressure has both negative and positive influences. If we look at the positive side then your child can be more assertive, he can try new activities maybe you wanted him to do but he did not show any interest and also get more involved in the school. He can become more competitive, studious, and eager to learn new things and many more. On the negative side, he can become jealous, compete but in unhealthy way, try to compare every time, feel underestimated. You can help him feel the positive side being a parent.

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    Hey all, peer influence can be described by the behaviour of your child and is shaped by wanting to feel that they should belong to a group of friends. Some children start taking the anti-social behaviour and start doing things which they were not really interested in, they might be good or bad. In school going children mostly the peer influence results in wearing same clothes, jewellery and hairstyle like their friends. Watching same TV shows which their friends watch or listening to the same music. Playing same games, same play stations, even using the same words they use.

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    Hello, peer pressure is one such thing through which every individual undergoes in their life. There are positive and negative impacts of this peer pressure on the children. Some have positive influence and some have negative influence. Some adopt good habits like, studying harder than earlier, eating healthy, reading, changing the way of talking, being obedient and many more. some adopt bad habits like doing risky things, breaking rules, bunking schools, smoking, drinking, use abusive language, comparing, jealously, not working hard in school and many more. It is important for the parents to look after them and keep consulting their teacher for their progress.

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    Hi, I had faced this peer pressure problem with my son and I had to convince him to think the right way and also choose according to him what is right and what is wrong. He did not have bad influence neither a good influence. He just coped well with the peer influence and tried to balance what is right. Though he wanted to be fitted in the group I made him realise the truth that he can be himself and be in a group as well. H tried changing his attitude and also increased his self-esteem. He is happy today and has a bunch of friends in school.

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    Sometimes you might get worried that your child is getting influenced by his or her peers, she is trying too hard to be in a group. You might also feel that your child is under pressure but you still can’t say no to her. But it is not necessarily possible that when your child and her friend has same liking or like the same program means they are doing anything risky after coming under pressure from the peers. Sometimes child do not imitate all the things her friends do, they limit themselves and do certain things which they feel are okay to do.

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    It is very important to be supportive and loving to your child. If you start acting strict they might tend to do things more which should be not done and also hide it from you. Encourage your child to do all the things which he likes even though somethings might be which his friend likes. Ask him to call all his friends over at home and give their space let them be free and enjoy. You can keep an eye and see if your child is influenced negatively and then you can act accordingly.

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