Dealing With Peer Pressure!

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Dealing With Peer Pressure!
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What is Peer Pressure?

• Take a few minutes to think about peer
  pressure.
• What do you think peer pressure means?
• Have you ever dealt with a peer pressure
  situation?
• Do you know someone that has been effected by
  peer pressure?

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Peer Pressure isWhen people your age start to
put pressure on you to do something.
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Consequences

• GIVING IN TO PEER PRESSURE
• Arrest
• School issues
• Trouble with friends
• Trouble with parents
• Health/safety issues

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Consequences

• NOT GIVING IN TO PEER PRESSURE
• No real trouble
• Maybe lose a not so good friend
• Teased
• Could gain new friends
• Be a positive role model

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How can you say no to a peer pressure
situation?
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No thanks Give reasons, excuses Repeated
refusals Walk away Change the subject Avoid the
situation Cold shoulder Get help
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Why do we give in to peer pressure?

• Sometimes we give in to be liked.
• Or because the other kids will make fun of us if
  we dont do what they want us to.
• Because they tell you everyones doing it.
• Because we may think it wont matter if we do it
  once or twice, just to stop the other kids from
  bugging us.

If you give in once, it is easier to be talked
into the next time.