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Hello hivers, and welcome back to my page, i hope you have enjoyed it so far. Today I will be talking to you about peer pressure and I hope you can take something for me today.
In the present world, peer pressure has been a major factor leading to a lot of negatives surrounding people, especially children as they have been forced to partake in acts in which they are not familiar with, nor are they even interested in, but because of what they see, what they hear, and even what is being done around them, they tend to blend in, and sometimes try to fit in and try to be among.
First of all; WHAT iS PEER PRESSURE?
Pear pressure can be said to be the tendency or the act of portraying a habit, or an addiction which was gotten from someone else or a group of people. OR Participating in an act because you where convinced to , even though you didn’t want to.
From this definition, we can see that peer pressure is gotten from what is being seen, or heard which means it is very important to control yourself, and restricts the kind of things we expose ourselves to, especially children who are exposed to a lot of things online and on TV, even in school which is very easy for them to adapt to something to something which they see very often and that can lead to a lot of negatives.
Here are some of the things that could be gotten from peer pressure:
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Ways in which peer pressure can be avoided:
Now, I am going to pay a little more attention to the last bullet point I made about learning to say no.
There are lots of people who will try to take advantage of you, especially if they see that you have tendency to be weak and gullible, learning how to say no to certain requests can go along way in your quest to becoming self resilient.
I know a lot of stories about people who entered trouble and even lost their lives, due to the inability to refuse certain requests, such as the time a boy went out with his friends, and they went to a swimming pool, out of all 4 of them, he was the only one who couldn’t swim and he told his friends, so they knew.
When it was time to go and swim, one of his friends encouraged him to try it for the very first time, and all of a sudden, all of them began convincing him.
He then decided to enter and 5 minutes into swimming, he began to drowned, and shockingly, none of his friends helped him in anyway whatsoever.
This is just a story to let you know when to stand your ground, and keep to your word.
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Where is peer pressure gotten form?
Always remember, it is easier to avoid starting something, than to try and stop it when you’ve already been addicted to it.
Thank you and i hope you have learnt something today, see you soon!
