Stories to read about peer pressure?

Answer 1

Hermits have no peer pressure. ~ Steven Wright

No child is immune to peer pressure. ~ Kathi Hudson

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else. ~ Lauren Greenfield

Peer pressure has many redeeming qualities. It is the pressure of our peers, after all, that gives us the support to try things we otherwise wouldn't have. ~ Bill Treasurer

Talk to your children about peer pressure. Explain what a powerful force it can be, and ... tell them that you will never accept the excuse that "Everyone did it" ... that they will be held responsible for their actions. ~ Tom McMahon

The main consequence of saying no to negative peer pressure is not just withstanding "the heat of the moment," as most adults think. Rather, it is coping with a sense of exclusion as others engage in the behavior and leave the adolescent increasingly alone. It is the loss of the shared experience. Further, the sense of exclusion remains whenever the group later recounts what happened. This feeling of loneliness then becomes pervasive but carries an easy solution - go along with the crowd. ~ Michael Riera

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. ~ Walt Mueller

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right. ~ Steve Martin

Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends. ~ Laurence Steinberg

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph.D. from Yale. ~ Mary Kay Blakely

The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. ~ Walt Mueller

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ~ John W. Gardner

Answer 2

"Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose is a classic play that delves into the dynamics of peer pressure in a jury room. "The Wave" by Todd Strasser is a novel based on a true story about a high school teacher's experiment with a new social movement that spirals out of control due to peer pressure. "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson follows a teenager's struggle with peer pressure and isolation after a traumatic event.

Answer 3

Depends on like your age. Growing up i would read Chicken Soup Books they would give different situations about things.