Every Indian person have heard this saying more than a thousand times that ‘if your friend jumps off a bridge, would you do that too’ and it left us lost, juggling to come up with an alternate answer from the obvious one ‘No’. Our parents couldn’t have found a better supernatural weapon than this to keep us from unnecessary peer pressure.

Peer pressure (or social pressure) is the direct influence on people by peers, or the effect on an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values. This can result in either a positive or negative effect, or both. Young people especially may struggle to cope with varying forms and degrees of peer pressure—whether it’s keeping up with middle school fashion trends or being the one who fits in.

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Peer Pressure is subjected to both the negative or positive aspects but the negative aspect here has more weightage because we are influenced by our peers easily in a negative kind of way like-

• Drugs and alcohol

• Stealing

• Shoplifting or Sexual activity

• Bullying or Cyberbullying

• Dangerous behavior

On the account of the above mentioned peer pressure problems, this is best suited- “One way to know whether something is right for you is how you feel while you’re doing it—or afterward. If you regret having done something, don’t do it again, even if your friends do”. (By Jill Whitney)

The lines given by Jill Whitney clearly portraits the idea of knowing when you are right or wrong and this is how one can boldly deal with peer pressure. These lines work as a counselor for us and we can be self – counseled by them but it is better to vaccinate ourselves with the right habits to stand up to the peer pressure right from the beginning. Those right habits could be-

How to Deal with Peer Pressure