Peer Pressure
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What are some of the most effective ways to educate children to prevent them from falling prey to peer pressure?
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Peer Pressure is examine in terms of deterring.
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When one is growing up, he/she seeks to have friends. The youth love associating and sharing their life's experiences with each other. In the process they do whatever they can to impress their friends in order to be accepted. It is during this vulnerable stage that they are easily enticed by varying forms of peer pressure. A young person will usually seek to identify with a particular group that he admires or would like the company of. He wishes to be recognized and accepted into the group as one of the group members. Thus he can easily fall under negative peer pressure in a bid to prove himself worthy of their friendship. While one is under pressure to please, he/she is usually unable to think clearly/rationally and may fall prey to negative peer pressure, only to come and regret much later. Instead, one ought to be self-driven, strong-willed and personally ...
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