Body concerns can involve all parts of the body; and around peers, kids can be particularly sensitive about their appearances as boys and girls or as young men and young women. Freud said that the ...

Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist writes about how to understand peer pressure, sex and talk to teenagers about it. You can read an excerpt from his book, "How to Keep Your Teenagers Out of ...

GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (ABC 4) — Peer pressure can have negative effects on kids and adults, but open dialogue in families can help mitigate the stress and anxiety that might come with it. “One of the ...

The recent controversy surrounding bullying at Cedar Creek School has served to illustrate the dark side of peer pressure, and left many parents wondering what they can do to help protect their own ...

Peer pressure is a very normal and unavoidable part of growing up. At some stage in their lives, all children experience it in one form or another. It usually occurs when children feel pushed or ...

There has always been that one classmate (or group) at the top of the school social ladder, the one who decided what was cool, who was attractive, and who was worth knowing. Everyone below watched and ...

Most of us think of peer pressure as something bad kids exert on good kids in high school to get them to misbehave. But every word and action between adults have some subtle effect (sometimes, not so ...

PEER PRESSURE. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?” We know, parents, we should say no and not succumb to peer pressure, the influence of a peer group on one’s attitudes, ...