Question

2.
How can you build up your own personality apart from that of your parents and
peers?​

Answer 1

• Answer:

peer pressure or influence is when you do something you wouldn’t otherwise do, because you want to feel accepted and valued by your friends.

Peer influence can be positive or negative.

Coping well with peer influence is about getting the balance right between being yourself and fitting in with your group.

If you have a positive relationship with your child, she’ll be more likely to talk to you if she’s feeling negative peer influence. You have influence over your child too

Explanation:

Peer influence is when you choose to do something you wouldn’t otherwise do, because you want to feel accepted and valued by your friends. It isn’t just or always about doing something against your will.

You might hear the term ‘peer pressure’ used a lot. But peer influence is a better way to describe how teenagers’ behaviour is shaped by wanting to feel they belong to a group of friends or peers.

Peer pressure and influence can be positive. For example, your child might be influenced to become more assertive, try new activities, or to get more involved with school.

But it can be negative too. Some teenagers might choose to try things they normally wouldn’t be interested in, like smoking or behaving in antisocial ways.

Peer pressure and influence might result in children:

choosing the same clothes, hairstyle or jewellery as their friends

listening to the same music or watching the same TV shows as their friends

changing the way they talk, or the words they use

• doing risky things or breaking rules