You likely remember your parents warning you about the dangers of peer pressure. “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?” or other some such admonition. But, lo and behold, when the ...

Peer pressure can affect your child's behavior in positive and negative ways. Here's what you should know about helping your ...

Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist writes about how to understand peer pressure, sex and talk to teenagers about it. You can read an excerpt from his book, "How to Keep Your Teenagers Out of ...

The recent controversy surrounding bullying at Cedar Creek School has served to illustrate the dark side of peer pressure, and left many parents wondering what they can do to help protect their own ...

Peer pressure has always been a part of childhood but in today’s world it takes many new forms. From wanting to own the latest gadgets to comparing lifestyles such as arriving at school in an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if ...

As I indicated in my Letter to the Editor earlier this week, I am learning the difference between positive and negative peer pressure. I want to be the type of person who does things because of my ...

There has always been that one classmate (or group) at the top of the school social ladder, the one who decided what was cool, who was attractive, and who was worth knowing. Everyone below watched and ...

The teen years are no picnic — for your child or for you as a parent. There are hormones, school pressure and mood swings — and perhaps the largest looming of them all: Peer pressure. Will your ...

Economist Robert Frank studies peer pressure and how its power can be leveraged for good. In his new book, “Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work,” Frank explains the idea of “behavioral ...

Is it possible to make the world a better place by applying a new paradigm to the age-old concept called “peer pressure”? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg and publisher W.W. Norton are ...

Another “March for Our Lives” school walkout in protest of gun violence is slated for April 20. It is tempting to celebrate these walkouts as evidence of a growing respect for First Amendment freedoms ...