Peers and Peer Pressure

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Peers and Peer Pressure
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PEERS

• Someone who is similar to you in age, grade,
  gender, or other traits.
• Friends, classmates, kids in the neighborhood.

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PEERS

• You care about what other people think about you.
• Friends are crucial in learning.
• 1 influence in your life.

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Peer Pressure

• Strong influences from people in a group to make
  the group members do something.
• One of the most difficult aspects of growing up.
• Hard to resist.
• Easy to persuade.

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Is all peer pressure negative?

• A group of friends are going roller-blading after
  school. What if
• Positive or Negative
• -Friends remind each other to wear their
  protective pads and helmets.
• -One may encourage another to skate on a busy road

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Peer Pressure Positive and Negative

• Positive
• Doing homework
• Exercise
• Playing a game
• Making right choices

• Negative
• Doing drugs
• Misbehavior in class
• Stealing
• Fighting

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Making Choices

• Right
• -thinking it through
• -being positive

• Wrong
• -acting without thinking
• -being negative

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Learn how to say NO

• Be firm and confident!
• Do not appear to be scared.
• Make No mean No!

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TEST TIME!

• You see a twenty dollar bill laying on the ground
  and dont know what to do with it. We are going
  to be influenced by our peers to determine what
  choice we are going to make.

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FUN TIME

• Positive message line You should give that to
  the teacher! Dont keep it, its not yours. How
  would you feel if you lost your money?
• Negative message line Go ahead, take it.
  Finders keepers, losers-weepers. No one is
  looking, quick pick it up!

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Peer Pressure

• How did it feel?
• Did you feel pressure to act a certain way?
• Which was harder to listen to, the positive or
  negative peer pressure?

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Points to Remember

• Peer pressure is when someone tries to influence
  you to do something.
• Peer pressure can be positive or negative.
• Hard to resist!

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People who can help

• Parents
• Teachers
• Principal
• Counselors
• Religious advisors
• Police
• Telephone hotline

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The End