Peer Pressure Quotes

When peers influence your life, without you realizing it, the acting forced is termed as peer pressure. Every child is a victim of this phenomenon at sometime or the other. Sadly, children succumb to it as a result of a dire need to fit in. It is an identity crisis and constant comparison by parents and teachers, that makes children follow the acts and ambitions of certain peers. A child, being in the process of forming an identity, needs support and direction by those around him. The only way of walking away from it is to treat your growing child with respect and as an important individual.

Inspirational Words about Peer Pressure

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

Peer pressure is part and parcel of growing. In my opinion, it allows a child to explore and tap the dormant potential. It teaches the child to face challenges and overcome obstacles with an edified mind. It is just a matter of perception that can make peer pressure seem positive and I hope these quotes help you see the deeper meaning of these social pressures and motivate you to rise above the same. Good luck!