ELIMINATING PEER PRESURE AS A
TOOL OF VIOLENCE
Copyright © 2013- J. Morris Anderson- Phila. PA- All Rights Reserved
Always use positivity to thwart the negativity of childhood peer pressure by being observant and by remaining in control of your child’s social life.
We all want our children to co-exist with other people, however, their environment covers vast territory away from the home over which we have no control. Therefore, the rules of non-violence must be so firmly implanted in the home that the tools of violence will have no appeal to them.
Use positivity to thwart the negativity of childhood peer pressure by being observant and remaining in control of your child’s social life.
Talk to your child as if he or she is a leader of his or her peer group. The more children envision themselves in leadership roles, the more comfortable they will feel asserting their own opinions and feelings that have been implanted from positive parental guidance.
Parents must cause their offspring to understand that when peer pressure rears its ugly head, they must focus on how they actually feel about a given issue rather than giving an ounce of thought to what the crowd is promoting. In other word, train children to always stand up for what they think is right.
Explain to them the value of ignoring their peers opposition to positive activity. Explain to them that doing the right thing will award them a successful life.
Emphasize the down side of Peer pressure . Explain to children how Peer Pressure works negatively against them when they allow the pressure to intimidate them into doing what the Peer group desires, as opposed to standing up for their own positive beliefs.
Parents should not allow children to be trained regarding sensitive issues, like drugs, sex and alcoholism and violence from the street. Strong home training will abolish strong street training.
Certainly children need to socialize and interact with peer groups, no man is an Island. However, parents must establish themselves as their children’s keepers, and keep them away from negative influences which will lead them astray.
Parents' responsibility is to insure as much as possible that their children are involved in quality social interaction. This, by assuming some control over their children’s social contacts.
Parents cannot patrol their children 24/7, but, by sowing the seeds of positivity into their children, they can stimulate them to at least form positive opinions and Know where they stand on key issues like sex, drugs and alcohol.
Children can be placed into positive advantageous positions to prevent peers from changing their positions on negative issues. Positive training can cause children to speak up and let others know their boundaries.
The family must take advantage of getting the first shot at making children who they are and what they become. Children can not establish their goals and objectives in lifealone.
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