What is peer pressure?

As you grow older, you will be faced with many challenging situations in the future. Making decisions on your own is quite hard, but when other people (peers) get involved and try to pressure you, it can be even harder. Peers can be your friends, classmates or who are about your age and have similar interests. When peers try to influence how you act and get you to do something, its called peer pressure.

Peer pressure can have both positive and negative impacts on life. Positive peer pressure is when peers influence you to do something positive and push you towards success. Some examples of positive peer pressure include pressure to avoid drugs, the pressure to get good grades, and pressure to maintain a healthy lifestyle, etc.

Negative peer pressure is when peers put pressure to perform actions that are harmful to your health and overall well-being. Some examples of negative peer pressure include loss of self-confidence, smoking, and the use of alcohol, etc.

Everyone has to deal with peer pressure, however, adolescence is a time, in particular, may seem difficult to handle pressure from peers. So, Ameya, the best CBSE school in Vizag. focus on helping children deal with peer pressure.

How Ameya can help students handle peer pressure and overcome fears?

As educators, we know that the students’ attitudes can influence other students and so Ameya has made some changes to help them cope with the pressure in the classroom, such as:

• Provide opportunities to learn and make students believe in themselves

Among the challenges associated with getting grades learning is a good idea. However, every student is unique in a learning process and that may cause fear to learn complex things. So, Ameya provides students multiple opportunities to learn, as it is always important to help students handle peer pressure and get success.

• Do not allow students to harm others.

Peer pressure among children in the classroom can impact negatively and cause harm to others. Ameya, one of the top schools in Vizag believes that it is important for students to have a refusal to antisocial kind of behavior. We create an environment where students are not fear to fail and get ridiculed.

• Increase student’s self-esteem and confidence

Low self-esteem caused by peer pressure can lessen a student’s desire to learn, ability to focus and willingness to take risks. On the other hand, encouraging positive peer pressure is one of the building blocks of achieving success. Thus, Ameya not always point out the mistakes students are making instead give a chance to notice the mistakes themselves and improve their self-confidence.

• Teach students to learn from mistakes and deal with the error

At Ameya, we always focus on emphasize students the importance of learning from the mistakes. But how can we do that? It is possible by encouraging positive peer pressure(learn things from each other) in the classroom. When students make a mistake, we help them to see the mistakes as a source of understanding and improve motivation to overcome mistakes.

Using these steps we make students understand about peer pressure and how it impacts them and overcome fears.

Ameya also believes parents have a key role in supporting children to recognize teen peer pressure that helps them develop their individuality.

How parents can help kids to deal with peer pressure?

Have you ever wondered how to help your child handle peer pressure? Here is the support provided by our top international school.

• Keep the communication open with your child.
• Show interest in getting to know about their friends.
• Motivate their self-confidence by trusting them while making choices.
• Encourage your kids to meet new people.
• Help them find balance with school and social life.
• Set realistic boundaries
• Most importantly, teach kids about peer pressure and its effects so they are aware of what’s happening to them.

These are the tips that help children to make day to day decisions for themselves.

Still finding tough guiding your child in positive ways and helping them cope with peer pressure? or If your child needs extra support with peer pressure. You can opt for Ameya world school which helps your child to stop doing things they are uncomfortable with.

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