BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

Of all the influences in your life, one of the biggest is your group of peers. While you’re busy trying to find your own sense of identity, it’s your peers who you’ll look to for inspiration. Of ...

When peers influence the act of a person or make them do something that might not be to their liking, it is called peer pressure. Peers are the people who belong to the same age group with whom you ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The delinquent teenagers I work with know all about peer pressure. They have experienced peer pressure and, I'm sure, they have pressured others. In fact, they are so familiar ...

Any teacher who has tried to get an 8th-grader to admit an interest in algebra when his friends find it boring knows how difficult it can be to get students to swim against the tide of social ...

Everyone knows about peer pressure for teens. Parents, teachers and guidance counselors drill preventive measures into the youth of America from middle school through high school. Teens and tweens are ...

Peer group or commonly known as classmates, schoolmates are an integral part of a person’s school life. The students spend time together during class, extracurricular as well as cultural activities ...

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 ...