Peer pressure

Your having strong feelings and you start to bang on your desk. Your friend sitting next to you tells you that you should stop before you get hurt. Is this positive or negative peer pressure?

When DeAnna is at a school dance, the new girl at her school tries to come up and join her friends’ dance circle. All of DeAnna’s friends roll their eyes and move around so that they block the new girl out. DeAnna notices that the new girl

On the bus ride to school, a classmate asks Naquan if he can copy his homework. Naquan wants to say no because he knows that is cheating. But his classmate tells him, “Only nerds refuse to share answers. Do you want to be called a nerd?”

1. You and your friend are at the park. Your friend dares you to climb on top of the monkey bars and jump off. You tell them no and they say “stop being scared, your being a chicken”  What can you do?

Name one refusal skill.

True or False: kids give into peer pressure to be liked or accepted from others.

What is peer pressure?

what are the warning signs of a bully?

Brad bought himself chips from the vending machine. Charlie asked if Brad could buy him chips but Brad didn’t have enough money. Charlie says “you must not be my true friend, if you don’t buy me chips then we can’t be friends”.

During computer class, one of your classmates went to a website that you know you are not allowed to be on at school. She wants you to go to the website as well so that she can show you a “cool” video. Your classmate says you are a teacher’

Geraldo really wants a pair of soccer cleats. His grandma drops him off at a local mall and gives him money to go inside and buy the shoes. As he is walking toward the shoe department, he notices a group of soccer players wearing the same p

You see a group of girls surrounding your friend. You think your friend is going to get hurt so you tell an adult.

You and a group of friends are playing soccer on a field near your house. You have been told to be home by dark. Just before dark, a popular kid in the neighborhood invites you and your group of friends to go to his house to play night tag

Ben and Maria are at the carnival. Ben doesn’t want to pay for a chocolate bar so he tells Maria to steal it and if she does then they can split it. Maria decides to steal the chocolate bar. What could she have done differently?

There's a new girl at school. Your friend says "let's prank her by putting trash in her backpack so she'll smell all day". You say no because it's not nice, your friend says "come on, it's just a joke, its funny"

All peer pressure is bad. True or false?

Mike forgot to do his homework so he asked Joey if he could copy his. Joey says no and Mike makes a fist and says "if you don't let me copy your homework I'm going to hit you".

True or False: If your friend asks you to do something unsafe you should say "yes" so you don't hurt their feelings.