Teenage Successure: The Effects Of Teenage Peer Pressure?

In early adolescence particularly in teenagers were drawn the immediate potential choices and less attentive to things and to the possible risks. Teenagers in all are still learning in controlling their impulses, thinking ahead and also in resisting pressures from others. The skills totally develops gradually, in the adolescent’s stage they have the ability to control their behavior and gets better. -Jones, R. (n.d.) According to Brett Laursen “If we define peer- pressure as essentially, influence, then I think we can see that peer pressure begins very early on. But, it 's not often the way that parents and adults think of it. You have explicit peer pressure and you have implicit peer pressure. It begins as soon as children start to pay attention to what other children think about them. So, we can see peer influence in the very early grade school years. We see it over behavior problems where one set of peers will influence another to act badly. We also see it over academic achievement where friends do better when they 're paired with other kids who are doing better in school. We see this as early as first grade.” As the meaning of Peer pressure is commonly applied to younger people, especially those teenagers. Responding to peer pressure is part of human nature that some teenagers are more likely to give in, and others are better able to resist and stand their ground. Peer pressure is one thing that all teens have in common. Some can 't escape it because it is almost