 Peer Pressure Ever been forced into a situation? Chances are what you have. Peer pressure is a part of every teen's life, and although positive peer pressure has its benefits, negative pressure can be one of the most difficult parts of growing up for some teens. As pre-adolescents begin rapid physical, emotional and social changes, they begin to question adult standards and the need for parental guidance. They find it reassuring to turn for advice to friends who understand and sympathize — friends who are in the same position themselves. By "trying on" new values and testing their ideas with their peers, there is with less fear of being ridiculed or "shot down". These are the formative years of ourlife we are trying to figure out our place in society and see where we fit into the rat race we call life. During adolescence, peers play a large part in a young person's life and typically replace family as the center of a teen's social and leisure activities. But teenagers have various peer relationships, and they interact with many peer groups. So from my perspective children are very susceptable to peer-group pressure. However, both learning through personal experiance and learning through to the advice of others can help us in our life. Pretty soon we will have more experiance of our own and the peer pressure will not be such a discusing probglem.
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