Parents: Are you worried about the peer pressure influence, kids at school, will have on your kids?

Question

Its a new school year coming up, and with that means learning. Not just academics either. It means a whole lot of new things other kids learned over the summer. Remember, all parents don't censor things from their kids like music, movies, and shows on T.V that's not appropriate. Those types of kids are going to take that to school and with that comes influence on your well behaved kids.

Answer 1

For the most part kids are attracted to other kids with the same values and morals because they prefer familiarity. Every once in awhile they will have a friend that "is different" but the relationship doesn't seem to last long because these "friendships" are usually based on curiosity. I always pushed sports with my 3 boys. In high school they have to average a C to play plus it is manditory drug testing when on a high school team. These will be the friends your kids will have the most in common with, the old "birds of a feather flock together" theory

Answer 2

Sure, I worry about it.  I'm sure they will struggle with bad influences and I will do my best to guide them.  But you don't raise a kid to keep them sheltered in the house; you raise them to go out into the world.  I'd rather have them have some negative influences (within reason, obviously) than keep them in a bubble.  Their adult lives will involve a lot of negative influences, too, and they won't just be of the bad ideas from music or movies variety.  Learning to cope with bad influences and rise above them on a small scale (the kid who uses potty talk at school, the kid who has chocolate bars for lunch every day, etc.) is good practice for rising above them when the influences are more serious (drugs, gangs, etc.).

Answer 3

We cyber school.. so no.

Answer 4

I can't shield my children from the world, I can only help them learn how to make good decisions in it & hold them responsible for the decisions that they, themselves, make.  

Answer 5

A child who has been brought up with boundries, manners and respect is much less likely to be influenced by peer pressure. They are also less likely to hang around with children who are disrespectful, ill mannered and have no boundries. "Birds of a feather............"

Answer 6

As one of those kids whose parents never censored her music, movies, or television (or videos games, or anything else like that actually) I can tell you that a lack of censorship does not equal bad behavior. I am constantly complimented for being well behaved, respectful, and just an all around lovely person.

I don't pressure other kids into doing anything, and I don't do anything that parents would be worried about their kids being pressured into. I've never had so much as a detention in my entire life.

As long as parents talk to their kids, and have a good relationship with them, the peer pressure isn't so much of an issue.

Answer 7

I'm not worried, because I know my kid.

I know that I "trained" her well enough, for her to make her own decisions.

I mean of coarse  I'll always have those worries, that's what mothers are for, right? But I trust her.