Peer pressure is something all teens are faced with in their everyday lives. Peer pressure can lead to experimentation with drugs and alcohol, sex, skipping school, and various high-risk behaviours. Also hanging out with the “wrong crowd” leads to peer pressure. Bad friends, will influence you into doing things you might not have thought you’d do. They make things seem all good, “everyone does it so why not you”, “just try it, nothing will happen” are two common phrases people are starting to say lately. How successfully you handle peer pressure depends a great deal on how you feel about yourself and your place in the world. In our society lately, peer pressure between teens is mostly negative. Peers may pressure others into negative behaviours or away from positive behaviours.

Teens like to act as if they are someone special or dangerous. By smoking cigarettes or drugs like weed, or even getting drunk at parties they can act on those feelings. Because it is so forbidden it becomes more alluring to teens. The problem is that when they take that first puff, they can become addicted. The first sip, becomes enjoyable and it becomes a habit at every single party. The idea that they are breaking the law or going against their parents and schools is an addiction within itself. Kids like to get attention; it does not matter if it’s good attention or bad attention. They crave attention and by doing all this they get big attention because the other teens look at them in all kinds of ways.