Peer Pressure Archives - The Center for Parent Youth Understanding

Why Do Kids Drink Alcohol?

The folks at drugfree.org recently released a guide to help parents understand current trends among teenagers in regards to alcohol consumption. In the guide, parents are given four answers to the question, “Why do young people drink alcohol?” The first…
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Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure

As Christian parents, what can we do to help our teens weather the inevitable storm of negative peer pressure in a way that brings honor and glory to their heavenly father? First, realize that negative peer pressure is a spiritual…
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Your Kids and Relationships

Parents, today I want to encourage you to conduct a two-pronged relationship check. First, take time to take stock of your family relationships and closeness. Kids who are engaged with their families and who know they are loved are less…
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Peer Pressure 5

All this week we’ve been looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Today I want to encourage you to not be afraid to draw the line and say “no.”…
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Peer Pressure 4

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Our kids need to learn that doing what is right is not always the easy choice. When Jesus called…
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Peer Pressure 3

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Today, I want to encourage you to pray for your kids. While it’s a fact that all kids will…
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Peer Pressure 2

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. You need to realize that negative peer pressure is spiritual battle all of us fight constantly. It’s a fact…
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Peer Pressure 1

Without the accumulated wisdom, experience, and fully formed intellectual capabilities of adults, kids and teenagers are especially susceptible to negative peer pressure. They’ll often allow peer influence to eclipse rational judgment in the decision-making process. Negative peer pressure is frightening…
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Ever Heard Of The Blackout Challenge? How Social Media Is Changing Peer Pressure And What To Do About It

October 5, 2021

Kids and Sinful Choices

One shift that’s taken place in youth culture over the years is the way that kids live out their friendships with their peers. In year’s past, kids were more prone to intervene and warn their friends if they saw their…
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Peer Pressure and Smoking

I recently had a grandmother tell me about an uncomfortable conversation she had with her elementary-aged grandson. Prompted by watching a TV news story on the current teen vaping epidemic, the inquisitive boy had asked grandma whether she had ever…
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