Hi everyone in today's blog I will be talking about what peer pressure is and how it can shape are attitude. Peer pressure refers to the influence that your friends have on you. It causes you to change your attitude, values and behaviour so as to remain in tune with your friends. It also causes you to change your response towards the world around you. It is a pressure that affects individuals of all genders and ages. It mostly happens in teenage years because it is the period that a person is most suspectable to be a pressure. When children enter the period, for the first time they actually become aware about people around them and realize the importance of perception in their interactions. Peer pressure is commonly associated with adolescent risk taking as children tend to enter in risky activities because of the influence of friends. In the adolescence , peer pressure can be positive as well as negative. If you associate yourself with negative people you are destined for failure. Now ,let us see how peer pressure can be positive as well as negative.

Let's begin

The negative effects of pear pressure:

When a person is in a wrong company during their school or college time.They tend to do following activities:

1.Bunking classes to watch movies or play with friends.

2.Getting into intoxicated habits like smoking, drinking,drugs etc.

3. If provoked by their friends teenagers demand expensive things and pressurize their parents to buy them. When parents are reluctant they become they become disrespectful towards them.

4.They can indulge in bullying someone.

5. Some students who are not sincere and do not pay attention to their studies. They waste their time by wandering here and there. When such children become friends with good children. They cast their evil influence on the good children and leaves them astray. The  children become more away from serious studies and fullfilment of their goals.

Now let us see the positive effects of peer pressure.

1. It can motivate the child to do better and Excel in studies and sports. This will help in the overall personality development.

2. It can help a child to develop good hobbies like gardening , dancing etc.

3. If us students friends are positive thinkers the students starts thinking positively in spite of a negative mind set. He starts developing optimism.

Now let's look at some ways which will help us to handle negative fear pressure:

1. Be firm and strong to say or no.

2. Trust your own feelings about what seems to be right or wrong.

3. Be confident about yourself even if you will have to be alone walk away and avoid doing something that you know is wrong.

4. Try to have at least one friend who is writers and support your views.

5. Choose your friends wisely.

6. In case of a dilemma try to seek advise of some elder person who you think is wise.

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