What do you mean by negative peer pressure?
Negative peer pressure is when someone your age tries to get you to do something that is NOT good for you.
Something that goes against your values (the things that you believe in) and the rules you live by.
EXAMPLES OF NEGATIVE PEER PRESSURE
When a friend tries to get you to smoke at a party, or anywhere else, for that matter.
When a friend tries to get you to join others in playing a mean joke on a classmate.
When friends pressure you to spray paint graffiti on a wall of the school building or to vandalize the new scoreboard on the soccer field.
When a friend tries to get you to help him steal something from a store.
When a classmate wants you to hurt someone else's feeling by helping to spread a rumor.
Lesson Progress
- Introduction to Decision Making
- The 3 D'S of decision making
- Decide, act, and evaluate
- Try the 3D's approach on these scenarios
- Peer Pressure
- How can peer pressure be positive?
- Negative Peer Pressure
- So what does this all mean ?
- How to handle negative peer pressure
- Other things to try
- How to be assertive and say no
- More ways to say no