Peer Pressure Have you ever been subjected to peer pressure? If yes, what did you do? How did you feel? Peer pressure doesn't just affect teenagers, it affects people of all ages. Who knows, you might have pressured someone to do something without even knowing it. Not all peer pressure is done intentionally; and it's not always bad, but that doesn't mean it's always good. All people handle these types of situations differently, some better than others. Overall, peer pressure is good because it pushes kids to try new things, it just takes a responsible teenager to know their morals. “Peer pressure” is a term generally associated with the social pains of preadolescence and adolescence. People experience peer pressure every day. Whether it's drinking a shot of alcohol, taking a drag on a cigarette or some weed, or simply tripping up some kid who walks by your desk. Some kids experience peer pressure for many different reasons, perhaps because they desperately want to be liked, want to make people laugh, or don't want to lose their friends. “During my freshman year, I was still desperate to be liked. I had friends, but what I really wanted was to be part of the “group”. I didn't think I was different from anyone else. I didn't understand why I wasn't chosen to be part of the big clique." Parents play an important role at this time in their children's lives. Parents are often torn at this point, feeling a loss of control over the influences and experiences their son or daughter will encounter. Peer pressure now enters the picture, bringing a host of tempting new ideas to challenge every child. Peer pressure is perhaps the single most influential factor that our little ones must learn to deal with. A strong sense of family values ​​can go a long way in... middle of paper... make sure you want to do the same things others do. Even as peer pressure increases in early adolescence, children's brains are developing the ability to help fight the temptations of risky behavior, new research reports. Over the study period, increased activity in a brain region known as the ventral striatum correlated with an increase in children's self-reported ability to deflect peer pressure, said study author Jennifer Pfeifer, assistant professor in Psychology from the University of Oregon and director of its Developmental Social Neuroscience Laboratory. He added that early adolescence is a key period because peer influence has been shown to be greatest from the end of elementary school through the beginning of middle school. Hollywood has a huge impact on the way children behave in today's society. They show drugs and alcohol in TV shows and music and these teenagers think it's glamorous.