Peer pressure can affect your child's behavior in positive and negative ways. Here's what you should know about helping your ...

One of the best things about seeing your kids go off to college is saying goodbye to peer pressure. Not theirs, mine. I survived high school in the 1970s and made it through college in the early ’80s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if ...

As I indicated in my Letter to the Editor earlier this week, I am learning the difference between positive and negative peer pressure. I want to be the type of person who does things because of my ...

If you have children approaching their teenage years, you’ve probably thought at least a few times about the kind of peer pressure they might experience. What if a friend or classmate persuades them ...

Peer pressure has been defined as 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 or behaviors to ...

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 ...

You likely remember your parents warning you about the dangers of peer pressure. “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?” or other some such admonition. But, lo and behold, when the ...