Peer Pressure and Peer Influence in Children and Adolescence

Abstract

Peers are the important component of life of every person, with them we grow, learn, imitate from each other. Many times adolescence are comfortable to share ideas and thought whether it is for good or bad which are uncomfortable to share with parents in their peer group. Generally, children imitate the behavior of their peers and follow the rules of group where they can be fitted in the group and also to feel the sense of belonging. In this process they learn many things like smoking cigarette, drinking alcohol, bunking classes, maintaining girlfriend or boyfriend, using mobile etc. so that they can show off as a mature adult. This is the stage where influences of parents and teachers are less and more influence by peers but it is also true that peers influence and peer pressures are not always desirable. This is the stage where parents and teachers need to be very careful because higher number of adolescence learn to watch Pornography and Sexual activities from mobile, showing disobedience towards teacher and parents, bulling others, eve-teasing, stealing, cheating, destructing, aggressing, doing risky things or breaking rules, passing on nasty comments, taunting etc. Some management techniques like talking to student, making plane for future, provide appropriate information they needed, sharing our own ideas and experience, teaching how to be assertive etc. will be helpful to them.