Peer Pressure for Teenagers

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Peer pressure for teenagers can be a huge and serious problem. It's up to parents to help their teens learn when and what to say no to, and give them the skills to do so with confidence.

Parenting Your Teenager - Peer Pressure For Teenagers During Their High-School Years, by Christina Botto

Your teenager faces several areas of peer pressure during his or her high school years. What makes it even harder for your teenager is that most parents do not understand the depths to which these pressures go.

Cigarettes and Alcohol

Cigarettes and alcohol more than likely will be among the first areas which your teenager will have to face peer pressure. With movies and television flashing images of underage smoking and drinking, most teenagers are shown only the more enjoyable and funny sides of these habits. High school years are very competitive, and where your teenager stands on the popular scale with the rest of his or her peers is very important. To be considered a "looser" is one of the biggest fears of today's teenager. To avoid this label they sometimes will portray an image of being tough, rebellious and uncontrolled by their parents. For today's teenagers, smoking and drinking are the easiest ways to declare their independence.

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The first and the most talked about reasons is that teenagers think it's cool, the same thing is with cigarettes and with drugs. But there are several reasons behind it, for instance, teenagers will be more likely to start drinking if they have parents who drink or if their friends drink. Parents need to give them a clear message and to educate them about drinking before they even think about drinking.

Alcohol is basically a drug that changes how we feel, the sensation that we feel at the lower levels of alcohol can be a very pleasant thing, which is what most of the people who drink look for, but unfortunately not all of us can stop when it is pleasant and we often take it overboard. That is even more common for teenagers, as they still don’t know their limits.

Alcohol is in fact a depressant for the central nervous system, so most people think they will chill out with a few drinks, but the few drinks often turn into much more, especially with teens, as they don’t know how much is enough. But there are plenty of other reasons why teenagers drink besides thinking its cool, another popular reason is curiosity. But that is why they start, or try alcohol in the first place.

Two more popular reasons are to fit in and to feel older. If you are thinking that it sounds stupid, it isn’t, well it is, but it’s not any more stupid than anything that we did in their age. I mean how many of us tried alcohol in our teen years? That is how teenagers are, and most of them will do just about anything to fit in, even do drugs.

http://www.aboutdwi.com/blog/tag/teenage-drunk-driving/page/2/
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this picture shows teenage girls posing with alchol because they think its cool , and now days to be cool in school or to be accepted teengaers think you have to drink to fit in!
this picture is again similar to other one showing that the more dominant objects in this picture is alcohol ! ,

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This image represents the realistic view of teenagers and there binge drinking ,
they are shoting back alchol and also have beeer bottles in there other hand , also having empty shot galsses infont of them which tells me that the ones in there hands arent ther first glasses.
the image is trying to make the shot glasses and the beer bottles more dominant , the values of this image are basically just saying lets drink till were drunk and not think about the consequences !

teenage binge drinking culture

TEENAGE BINGE DRINKING CULTURE!!

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0804/S00078.htm

-tennage binge drinking rite of passage! ……ARTICLE

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/tragic-death-follows-king-s-college-ball-4221934

-kings college death!

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/closer-2004

-shows the teen drinking !! and thinking to b apart of the new group hes hanging out with he has to drink to be apart of them

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840196/

-skins tv series ,The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures ,

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