Peer Pressure

Tonya M. Stevens
English Composition
02/10/2013
Shaiy Kindel
Peer Pressure WebMD.com, Teens and Peer Pressure retrieved 2/5/2013 National Youth Advocacy Council website American Social Health Associations “lwannaknow.org” web site The article talks about friends and what you will do if you got to a party with your friends. If there are drugs, alcohol or even cigarettes will you as a person be able to hold your own and not be pressured into doing these types of things. Or, maybe the friends that hang around in one particular group start discussing their personal business. Like maybe having sex with someone else is another example. Would you be tempted to have sex with someone that way you all still have something in common? It all boils down to being able to stand on your own and not follow in others footsteps just so you can be cool. I think that the author reaches out to teenagers like the high school age possibly the seventh and eighth graders. Peer pressure is a very strong thing and with that in mind it’s important to get the word out that people don’t have to be cool and do what their friends are doing because they are already doing the bad habits.

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Phychiatry, No. 104, retrieved on 2/5/2013. www.aacap.org The article talks about peer pressure starting at a young age like around pre school and then just progresses from there. The mentioned that peers are not always a bad thing that they can be a positive and supportive thing as well. It gave tips for kids to help deal with peer pressure and it also gave tips for parents to help them recognize if their child or children are having problems with peer pressure. This article focuses on kids and their parents. After giving different facts and information it also gave information on what parents can do if they try to talk to their kids and then there is no change in their child.

Peer Pressure, The Good & the Bad. Retrieved on 2/5/2013, www.aacap.org This article explains the difference between bad peer pressure and good peer pressure. Bad peer pressure is pretty much friends trying to get you to do bad stuff that could affect your body, life, or even your future. However, good peer pressure can do the same things but with the good that means you are being pressured to do good things to your body, life or future. An example of good peer pressure is a friend talking you out of drinking a beer. While bad peer pressure is a friend talking you into drinking a beer. This article could be for adolescent kids but I think that it’s mainly for the parents or even teachers to help educate students about peer pressure. They mentioned in the article that its very important to decide who your friends are. It’s very important for parents, educators, role models all who are around kids to make them aware of peer pressure because it only gets worse as a child gets older.

I’m not sure if I did this correctly but I chose Peer Pressure because I think that its very important for kids and their families to learn about peer pressure at a young age. As a child gets older the pressure will tend to get more intense. If a child is aware and can see the triggers of peer review then maybe they won’t be likely to do the ‘bad’ peer pressure. I feel that peer pressure is a big problem just because you hear things happening all the time with kids getting under age violations, and kids be charged with drugs and girls ending up pregnant in the eighth grade and so on. Many of this is done due to peer pressure and that’s why it needs to be known.